Danny Kaye

Virginia Mayo

Benny Goodman

Tommy Dorsey

Louis Armstrong

Lionel Hampton

Charlie Barnet

Mel Powell

Ford Washington Lee

John 'Bubbles' Sublett

Page Cavanaugh

Al Viola

Lloyd Pratt

Orlandus Wilson

Henry Owens

Willie Johnson

Clyde Riddick

Russo do Pandeiro

Hugh Herbert

Steve Cochran

J. Edward Bromberg

Felix Bressart

Ludwig Stössel

O. Z. Whitehead

Esther Dale

Mary Field

Howland Chamberlain

Paul Langton

Sidney Blackmer

Ben Welden

Ben Chasen

Peter Virgo

Harry Babasin

Louie Bellson

Alton Hendrickson

Laurindo Almeida

Sue George

Milicent Patrick

Howard Hawks

Samuel Goldwyn

Gregg Toland

Daniel Mandell

Perry Ferguson

George Jenkins

Julia Heron

Irene Sharaff

Marie Clark

Robert Stephanoff

Hugo Friedhofer

Emil Newman

Don Raye

Gene de Paul

Sonny Burke

John P. Fulton

Billy Wilder

Thomas Monroe

Fred Lau

Comedy

Music

A Song Is Born

Samuel Goldwyn Productions

United States of America

English

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After two minutes you will spot the obvious similarity with "Ball of Fire" (1941). Swap Gary Cooper with Danny Kaye and Barbara Stanwyck with Virginia Mayo then add some fantastic musicianship from the likes of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Burke et al, and we have a gently amusing story of a professor (of music this time) who falls for the gangster's moll. "Honey" (Mayo) takes refuge from the pursuing FBI with a bunch of dithery professors creating an over budget dictionary of music and soon the hapless "Prof. Frisbee" (Kaye) is eating out of her hand. The gangster elements of the plot are just a little too contrived: her boyfriend "Crow" (Steve Cochran) maintains this new situation to keep her from testifying against him - until, that is - he can make arrangements to marry her, but in the meantime might she start to fall for poor old "Frisbee"? Neither lead are on great form here, Kaye seems oddly distracted from his role and Mayo always was quite a sterile performer, but there is still enough chemistry between them and, alongside a fun effort from Esther Dale as their somewhat puritanical housekeeper "Miss Bragg" this works ok. Essentially, it's an excuse for some great toe-tappers with a gently simmering romance and some slightly slapstick humour. It's fun to watch and to listen to, and though I still preferred the original it is diverse enough from that to stand well enough on it's own.

A Song Is Born

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