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Hollywood Enlists Music
for the Duration
One of the many name bands Hollywood has snagged is Ted Fio Rito's orchestra. Ted made his musical debut in a nightclub that burned down the next day — his music was that hot!
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| Hollywood talent scouts who used to congregate around stock companies and little theater groups in search of new faces, now have a new hang-out. They're lurking in the blaring confines of the nation's jive and jitter palaces and plunking the young men who make music in front of the camera. It's all a war-time move to make us ease up on our war jitters. Hollywood is enlisting music for the duration. Yeah, man, and a couple of heps!
So movie fans, get ready to add to your list of screen personalities such names as Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Vaughn Monroe, Harry James, Dick Jurgens, Duke Ellington, Ted Fio Rito and Freddie Martin. And that's not all, rug-cutters! The list is growing every day as Hollywood feverishly adds more and more of the nation's hottest music-makers to its contract list. Every studio in town is falling in line with the new program to provide bigger and zippier musicals for war-time America.
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This doesn't mean that propaganda pictures and films with a war motif will be shoved aside. Far from it. One prominent producer put it this way.
"These days we're all living in a fast, nervous tension, and pictures must match that high pitch. The old drawing-room comedies and dramas based around a set of peace-time problems and conventions are insignificant and stale when measured against the powerful things that are happening today.
"Primarily, there are two types of picures that Hollywood will produce for the duration: action war films which are exciting and educational in purpose; and as an antidote, fast-moving, gay musicals full of clamor and glamour. Such pictures as Wake Island, Eagle Squadron, Watch on the Rhine and The Commandos Come at Dawn are being rushed out to fill the first category, but these are being turned out by the regular actors who have long been familiar faces in Hollywood. For the
second group, the high-voltage musicals, an entirely new set of players had to be drafted, and these swing artists and pep singers are the new contingent of wartime movie stars."
All the studios are in a whirl of excitement making plans for their super-duper extravaganzas. Metro Goldwyn Mayer was the first to hop on the music box and grab up the country's top name bands for their parade of musicals.
You'll beat your boots to Harry James in Springtime in the Rockies and go nuts with Benny Goodman in Stage Door Canteen. You'll be seeing Tommy Dorsey blow sweet and hot in DuBarry Was a Lady, Bob Crosby warm up the joint in Presenting Lily Mars, Duke Ellington in Cabin in the Sky, and Dick Jurgens, Vaughn Monroe and other hot ripps will have prominent spots in such song-and-dance epics as Girl Crazy, Best Foot Forward, I Dood It, and others which are being rushed into production.
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