We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
ee Te ee es er en ee ee ne ee ee ere en ee
=
in M-G-M msicals including "Bathing Beauty", "Thrill of a Romance", "Two Girls and a Sailor", “Anchors Aweigh", "Fiesta" and "Early to Bed", For 20th-Centuryrox he was featured in an entertaining msical satire on the discovery of the New World entitled “Where Do We | 30 From Here? with music by Kurt Weill. For Warner Bros. he sang a lusty "Begin the Beguine" in "Night and Day", the highly "technicolored" story of Cole Porter.
The post-war years brought a restoration of the opera star to the screen. From England came an innocuous pseudo-Viennese operetta entitled "Waltz Time", In its cast were Webster Booth, Anne Ziegler and Richard Tauber the last-named was heard in one song — the tuneful "Break of Day",
The year 1946 found Hollywood still wary about giving the film public too much opera. Walt Disney's "Make Mine Music" contained a cartoon sequence of "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" all the voices for this extremely exasperating excerpt were sung by Nelson Eddy. From M-G-M came “Two Sisters from Boston" with Lauritz Melchior portraying an operatic tenor at the turn of the Century. Im one interesting episode Mr. Melchior was seen recording a song in front of the old-fashioned acoustical horn. Also from Metro was "The Ziegfeld Follies" with James Melton lost in an array of film stars from the M-G-M lot.
The Hollywood scene in 1947 was far more encouraging. From Universal, "Something in the Wind" starring Deanna Durbin with Jan Peerce playing his first role in films. As a jailer, Mr. Peerce was heard in "Home to our Mountains" from Verdi's "Trovatore" in a duet with Miss Durbin who was serving time but not keeping it? :
Also from Universal was "Song of Scheherazade” an expertly colored version both in photography and scenario of Rimsky-Korsakoff‘s youthful days in the Russian Navy. Jean-Pierre Aumont was seen as "Rimsky" and Charles Kullman as the ship*’s doctor.
“ir, Kuliman*s voice was used in a number of songs, some > adapted from "Scheherazade" as well as_ the inevitable "Song of India*, In this case a two-record album set