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Hollywood highbrow: how the talkies decided they couldn't do without opera.
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" asked Warner Bros.' Harry Warner at the dawn of Hollywood's sound era. The talkie was to be built around music--production numbers, dance specialties, choruses, charm songs, love songs, torch songs, fantasies in ballet, and underscoring for the dramas and comedies.
The actors did talk. But the musical was Hollywood's obsession in the first two years of full sound production, 1929-30. Popular Broadway scores went Hollywood (The Desert Song, Good News!). Straight plays were musicalized (The Gold Diggers as The Gold Diggers of Broadway, the first of countless three-girls-hustle-for-husbands films). Hollywood even turned out ...
- CONCERT FEATURES NOTE OF GRACE; FORMER ORGANIST GRACE MOORE WILL BE HONORED BY...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) October 4, 2003 700+ words
...as Mexico's first lady of music. Grace Moore, 85, will be sitting in the front...singers and a quintet perform at the first Grace Moore Concert Series. The concert series...Church in Mexico. If you go What: Grace Moore Concert Series When: 7 p.m. today...
- Grace Moore.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Grace Moore / Maria Cebotari
- Magazine article from: Opera News Luten, C J October 1, 1996 700+ words
Maria Cebotari Strauss scenes, Taillefer. Preiser 90222 Moore's was a lustrous, sensuous voice, full and resonant - spinto in maturity but lyric at first, as one hears in the show tunes, songs and arias made for Decca in her early career. There are three especially rewarding selections (one with
- Fragment of Lost Laurel and Hardy Film Found In New England, Preserved At UCLA...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 6, 1998 700+ words
...a portion of the 1930 musical "The Rogue Song," probably known best today as a...enthusiasts have been looking for 'The Rogue Song' for a long time. When we acquire a work such as 'The Rogue Song,' which doesn't fit our regional...
- ``TCM ARCHIVES: THE LAUREL AND HARDY COLLECTION'';``The Devil's Brother'' --...
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 19, 2005 700+ words
...Narrated by Chevy Chase, Plus Only Surviving Footage from "The Rogue Song" Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Hollywood's most-beloved...the only surviving footage from the "lost film," "The Rogue Song." Laurel and Hardy -- enduringly popular, perhaps because...
- Movie news briefs.
- Newspaper article from: Zap2It.com (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) May 14, 2002 700+ words
...including Norma Shearer, Frances Marion and Carl Laemmle, accepting their Academy Awards. A trailer for the 1930 film "The Rogue Song," some of the only remaining footage of the film for which Lawrence Tibbett was nominated for Best Actor, also will be...
- Stan's the fan!(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) December 1, 2003 700+ words
...them on television now but they were much better on the big cinema screen. "They made 106 films but two, Hats Off and The Rogue Song, have been lost. Nobody has seen them though someone must have when they were first made. "Hats Off is similar to the...
- Hooray for old Hollywood
- Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin Tim Ryan December 12, 1996 700+ words
...water." Classics already lost include the 1926 D.W. Griffith silent, "The Royale Girl," with W.C. Fields; "The Rogue Song" (1930), an early color film directed by Lionel Barrymore that features Laurel and Hardy (only a trailer and fragments...
