words by Paul Francis Webster, music by Irving Aaronson, 1950, Adapted from Rosa’s waltz: Sobre los olas (“Over the Waves”)
When you are in love
It’s the loveliest night of the year
Stars twinkle above
And you almost can touch them from here
Frosty the Snowman is a popular Christmas song written by Walter “Jack” Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. It was later recorded by Jimmy Durante. It was written after the success of Autry’s recording of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer the previous year. Like Rudolph, Frosty was subsequently adapted to other media including a popular television special by Rankin/Bass Productions, Frosty the Snowman.
Frosty the Snowman lyrics
Fancy Pants – Bob Hope plays an American actor, playing an English butler, brought to America to be butler to an American Wild West tomboy – Lucille Ball
Fancy Pants
Walt Whippo and Bernard Zaritzky wrote the lyrics and music for Little White Duck in 1950, and children have been singing it ever since. It has been recorded by many popular performers, including Danny Kaye, Burl Ives, and Raffi.
Captain Horatio Hornblower: Screen legend Gregory Peck (“To Kill A Mockingbird“) brings to life C.S. Forester’s classic nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. Hornblower battles the French and the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic wars. But he also finds time for romance in this spectacle from director Raoul Walsh (“White Heat,” “High Sierra“). Co-starring Virginia Mayo (“The Best Years of Our Lives”).
Captain Horatio Hornblower
An aspiring actress takes a bet that she can answer “no” to every question for 24 hours. If she can, she’ll win the opportunity to finance and star in her own Broadway musical. Based on the 1920’s stage play and film, “No, No, Nanette”. The score features songs by George & Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Al Dubin and Harry Warren.
Tea for Two
In Mystery Street, a Harvard professor helps a small town policeman when the skeletal remains of a pregnant prostitute turn up on a Massachusetts beach.
Mystery Street
James Stewart gives one of his finest performances in this lighthearted film as the good-natured Elwood P. Dowd. His constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see. To his sister, Veta Louise, Elwood’s obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in the side of her plans to marry off her daughter. But when Veta Louise decides to put Elwood in a mental hospital, a hilarious mix-up occurs and she finds herself committed instead. It’s up to Elwood to straighten out the mess with his kindly philosophy, and his “imaginary” friend, in this popular classic.
Harvey
France, 1640: Cyrano de Bergerac, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Broderick Crawford wants his girlfriend Judy Holliday to be cultured. He hires William Holden to teach her in a hilarious Garson Kanin comedy set in Washington, D.C. Priceless Judy repeated Broadway triumph and won an Oscar(r) for playing the quintessential dumb blonde.
