A Song Is Born (1948)
Genre: Comedy / Music
Duration: 113 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo and Benny Goodman
IMDb score:
6,9 (3.141)
Releasedate: 19 October 1948
A Song Is Born plot
"...with the hottest men in music - beating out the rhythm with'm!"
Honey Swanson has to go into hiding when her gangster boyfriend is chased by the police. Where better to hide than in the Research Institute of Music, run entirely by lonely bachelors?
Actors and actresses
Professor Hobart Frisbee
Honey Swanson
Professor Magenbruch
Tommy Dorsey
Louis Armstrong
Lionel Hampton
Charlie Barnet
Mel Powell
Buck
Professor Twingle
Reviews & comments
Brix
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- 19695 messages
- 5132 votes
After many years (25-30?) I saw this again yesterday, and was not disappointed by the renewed acquaintance.
A lighthearted affair, with fine jazz music, and a bubbly and sexy Virginia Mayo.
It is also Mayo and the music that make the film worth seeing.
Virginia could also lip sync really well 
Fortunately, Kaye plays a little more subdued than was usually the case.
Songs with all kinds of crazy accents, his trademark, are absent.
Probably thanks to director Hawks, who must have had his hands full.
Benny Goodman is a great clarinetist, that much is known, but he also plays an actor (Professor Magenbruch) in this.
Unpretentious, but swinging, entertainment,
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clubsport
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- 3888 messages
- 6991 votes
I thought Ball of Fire, which I saw recently, was slightly better, although both films are quite enjoyable, but I thought Cooper came out better in his comedic role than Kaye.
I also thought Stanwyck had a little more feminine appeal in her role than May did in this version.
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