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A Song is Born Director: Howard Hawks Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/07/2009
  • Original Release: 1948
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 1,273

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Disc #1 -- A Song Is Born
1. Main Titles [1:34]
2. An Eloquent Plea [4:25]
3. Polynesian Mating Call [5:38]
4. Swing, Jazz, Jump, Blues... [7:11]
5. Out and About [5:23]
6. Honey [3:11]
7. All This Subpoena Business [3:47]
8. Just Another Tomato [7:10]
9. Stay in the Icebox [1:53]
10. Starting on the Downbeat [4:44]
11. Hotter Than a Firecracker [2:03]
12. How Jazz Was Born [6:28]
13. Longhair Jam Session [4:08]
14. What Yum-Yum Is [7:42]
15. Where Have You Been? [1:47]
16. Blowing Away the Dust [5:28]
17. Speak Up, Son [6:09]
18. A Very Exciting Day [2:08]
19. Seven Cherubs [3:50]
20. All Mixed Up [5:35]
21. Fish in a Barrel [4:32]
22. At Gunpoint! [4:39]
23. The Battle of Jericho [11:05]
24. It Isn't Fair/End Titles [2:07]

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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director (Howard Hawks) at the helm. It will be recalled that the original film, co-scripted by Billy Wilder, was an amusing spin on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," wherein seven pedantic professors, working on a dictionary of slang, "adopted" an authority on the subject, breezy burlesque dancer Sugarpuss O'Shea. In the remake, the septet of scholars are working on an encyclopedia of music, but they're held up on the subject of "swing." When nightclub singer Honey Swanson (Virginia Mayo), escaping from her gangster suitor Tony Crow (Steve Cochran), takes refuge in the professors' home, she offers to introduce them to the world of popular music. This proves to be quite a tuneful undertaking, since two of the professors are played by Danny Kaye and Benny Goodman! The tang and zest of original plotline has been muted to the point of harmlessness, but the film is saved by the presence of Goodman, his fellow bandleaders Charlie Barnet, Tommy Dorsey and Mel Powell, and specialty performers Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton and Buck & Bubbles. A Song is Born was Danny Kaye's final starring vehicle for Sam Goldwyn. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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