| re: the way you wear your hat... | |
| Posted by: RonnieWeho 06:08 am EST 01/07/25 | |
| In reply to: re: the way you wear your hat... - showtunetrivia 09:38 pm EST 01/06/25 | |
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| I'm with you! Great to see them DANCE to it since they didn't sing AND dance to it the first time around in SHALL WE DANCE. "Astaire and Rogers said individually during their lives the song was one of their favorite personal songs, and they rescued it for The Barkleys of Broadway in (1949), his final reunion with Rogers, creating one of their most admired essays in romantic partnered dance, and it was the only occasion on film when Astaire permitted himself to repeat a song he had performed in a previous film." "Irving Berlin considered Astaire the equal of any male interpreter of his songs—"'as good as Jolson, Crosby or Sinatra, not necessarily because of his voice, but for his conception of projecting a song.'" Jerome Kern considered him the supreme male interpreter of his songs." "Astaire later clarified about his screen test's comments: insisting that the report had read: "Can't act. Slightly bald. Also dances." In any case, the test was clearly disappointing, and David O. Selznick, who had signed Astaire to RKO and commissioned the test, stated in a memo, "I am uncertain about the man, but I feel, in spite of his enormous ears and bad chin line, that his charm is so tremendous that it comes through even on this wretched test.'" For one of our greatest singers [IMHO}, he could "ALSO dance (a little)." As for the song: Let's face it--it's certainly no "Sweet Leilani" featured in the 1937 film, Waikiki Wedding--which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song over THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME. Go figure.... |
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