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Musical biography chronicling the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.Musical biography chronicling the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.Musical biography chronicling the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
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- TriviaRichard Rodgers reportedly disliked every aspect of this film except for the casting of Janet Leigh as his wife.
- GoofsPerry Como plays a singer Eddie Anders throughout the movie but at the end, during the memorial service for Hart, he is introduced as Perry Como when he comes on to sing the final song at the tribute.
- Quotes
Peggy Lorgan McNeil: I don't think I quite understand.
Lorenz 'Larry' Hart: You will after you've known me ten or fifteen years.
- ConnectionsEdited into American Masters: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)
- SoundtracksLover
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Originally featured in "Love Me Tonight" (1932)
Performed by The M-G-M Studio Orchestra and Chorus Conducted by Lennie Hayton
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delightful!
Another old movie from my garage vaults; one I always loved because of the great music and so many MGM stars. The loosely based biography of both Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart. They were a great pair. Rogers wrote the music and Hart did the sometimes crazy lyrics Tom Drake plays Rogers, and Mickey Rooney plays Hart. The big numbers in this were by June Allison in "Thou Swell"; Judy Garland's "Johnny One-Note"; Judy and Mickey doing "I'll Take Manhattan"; Mel Torme's "Blue Moon", and many others. I believe this film was one of Perry Como's and Mel Torme's first. The story may seem like a hodgepodge of great talent, but who cares the music is wonderful! How could anyone not love Judy Garland or June Allison? 7/10
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- willrams
- May 16, 2004
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- Mi vida es una canción
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- $2,799,970 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
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- 1.37 : 1
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