In her first and only Technicolour film, the newly blonde Deanna Durbin stars with Robert Paige in the light and gay musical romance (Daily Variety) that receiv
Includes chapters on Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Busby Berkeley, Fred Astaire, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a tru
From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in m