A Song Is Born (1948)

A mere six years after Howard Hawks made "Ball of Fire" with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, Producer Samuel Goldwyn engaged Hawks to make a new, musical version of the story, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.Kaye plays Professor Hobart Frisbee, a naïve music scholar who, together with six other musicologists, is studying a strange new phenomenon known as jazz. While doing his research, Frisbee meets gangster moll Honey Swanson, a beautiful, tough-talking night club entertainer on the lam, who decides that the house where the seven scholars live would make for a great hide-out. So while the cops are searching for her to testify against her beau, she goes home with Frisbee and the gang. And Honey turns out to be just what this group of stodgy professors needs... as the house starts swinging and rocking with the sounds of jazz. That is, until her gangster boyfriend comes around to ruin the party. Product Description

DANNY KAYE AT HIS BEST !

DANNY KAYE IS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST LOVED ACTORS WHO HAS FINALLY BEEN CAPTURED ON DVD IN THIS WONDERFUL SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S MOVIE. A SONG IS BORN FEATURES MANY FANTASTIC SUPPORTING ACTORS AND MUSICIANS. THE SUPPORTING CAST MEMBERS AND MUSICIANS INCLUDE : BENNY GOODMAN, TOMMY DORSEY, LIONEL HAMPTON, CHARLIE BARNET, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, MEL POWELL, RUSSO AND THE SAMBA KINGS, BUCK & BUBBLES TO NAME A FEW AND OF COURSE, DANNY'S ULTIMATE AND BEAUTIFUL CO-STAR, VIRGINIA MAYO. MANY OF THE ORCHESTRATIONS PERFORMED ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT - WONDERFUL. EVERYONE WHO LOVES OR TEACHES MUSIC NEEDS TO HAVE THIS MOVIE. MUSIC LOVERS OF ALL AGES WILL BE MESMERIZED AND TREATED TO THE INGENIOUS WORK THAT ONLY DANNY KAYE COULD DELIVER. THIS IS A ONE OF A KIND FIND AND WILL BE A CHERISHED ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION OF MOVIE CLASSICS. NEXT TO THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY & WONDER MAN, THIS IS DANNY KAYE AT HIS BEST ~JUST GET THIS MOVIE ~ YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID ! May 16, 2008

Good Movie

My Absolute Favorite Danny Kaye Movie of all time!!
If you like jazz, you'll love this wonderful movie full of
big name jazz artists of the era.
I only wish that I could find a copy of it somewhere.
November 2, 2007

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