The boat rides we would take
The moonlight on the lake
The way we danced and hummed our favorite song
The things we did last summer
The Ghost (1963) starring Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin In short, the Italian horror movie The Ghost plays like a mediocre episode of The Twilight Zone. It deals with a dying doctor, who’s a helpless cripple.…
Side by Side was composed by Harry Woods. He wrote numerous 1920s standards, including “When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along)“, “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover“, and “Try a Little Tenderness“.
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly is sung by Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza’s wish for a better life.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is a wonderful Hollywood biography. It tells the story of the husband-and-wife ballroom dancing team Vernon and Irene Castle.
In Gaslight, after her aunt is mysteriously killed, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to Italy to receive opera training. Being charmed by Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) she falls in love and they move in together in London. Soon Paula begins to notice strange things happening, as Gregory is slowly manipulating her into believing she is insane.
Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison): Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By right she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn): Aaoooww!
Bring on those Wonderful Men is a parody of Here’s to the Girls in Ziegfeld Follies. It’s a very funny song by Virginia O’Brien, in her trademark stone faced style.
Play a Simple Melody is a song from the 1914 musical, Watch Your Step, words and music by Irving Berlin. The show was the first stage musical that Berlin wrote. The one song from it that is well-remembered today is Play a Simple Melody, one of the few true examples of counterpoint in American popular music. It’s a melody running against a second melody, each with independent lyrics.
In My Fair Lady, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney working-class girl into a cultured member of high society. But what then?
