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A Song Is Born: Fabulous Music But a Waste of Danny Kaye

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 13, 2018

Danny Kaye as Hobart Frisbee. A musical remake of Ball of Fire must have been one of the easiest pitches of all time. After all, the original 1941 comedy--penned by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett--was about a bunch of academics writing an encyclopedia about music. Ball of Fire starred Gary Coope read more

Film Review: A Song Is Born (1948)

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Mar 19, 2014

Our Howard Hawks-athon this month at Pretty Clever Films continues with a look at A Song Is Born. A carbon copy remake of Hawks’ own screwball classic Ball of Fire (1941). A Song Is Born stars Danny Kaye, in the role originated by Gary Cooper, with Virginia Mayo taking on the Barbara Stanwyck role read more

A Song Is Born (1948)

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Jan 24, 2014

We’ve come to the end of our time with Danny Kaye and it’s was a pleasant experience, overall.  None of the movies in Warner Archive’s two Kaye collections were terrible or unwatchable, although I did find two (The Court Jester and The Kid From Brooklyn) head and shoulders above th read more