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Song in the movie

posted 17 years ago by rachel70802002
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Gone with the wind. This must have been written when the book came out. I heard it being sung on this movie. Never heard it before now. I like Irene Dunne and Cary Grant together.

[–] mrplankton 17 years ago

the gone with the wind song was hilarious! i dunno which scene is funnier- whilst jerry's date at the club sings or whilst lucy sings for jerry's future inlaws and watching her attempt the wind effect.

cheers.

[–] Wakanohana 17 years ago

RE: "dunno which scene is funnier- whilst jerry's date at the club sings or whilst lucy sings for jerry's future inlaws and watching her attempt the wind effect. "

The entire nightclub scene was pure comedic genius. "We're going to live right in Oklahoma City" "Not Oklahoma City!... If you ever get bored, you could just drive over to Tulsa!

For me, The Awful Truth is perfect. I can't think of any Cary Grant or Irene Dunn movie that I've ever enjoyed more.

[–] mikeoak840 17 years ago

I'm going to have to watch again. It doesn't make any sense. GWTW was first published on May 19, 1936, and O'Selnick bought the screen rights a month or two later. The Awful Truth came out in the fall of 1937, so it had to be in production in early to mid 1937.

Casting & production of GWTW didn't begin until late December 1938/January 1939, well more than a year after The Awful Truth was released, and GWTW was a very rushed production. GWTW didn't premiere until December of 1939, and Steiner wasn't working on the score until early to mid 1939. He was under the gun to get it completed in such a short amount of time, so it seems highly unlikely that the music could have shown up in a movie released 2 years earlier. Perhaps something that sounds similar.

[–] rachel70802002 17 years ago

Tomorrow is another day

I don't think its related to the movie Gone with the wind. Its just a tune with the words gone with the wind in it. It could have been written around the time "Scarlett fever" took over hollywood since alot of actresses were trying out for Scarlett around 1937-to the time Vivien Leigh was cast a few weeks before the movie started filming in 1939.

[–] eschetic-1 17 years ago

Well of course! Younger movie fans tend to forget that the world existed outside of the famous films they know. The "Scarlett Fever" that swept the nation with the publication of Margaret Mitchell's great potboiler was only heightened by the furor surrounding the casting and production on the film of GWTW.

In addition to this very funny tune (and it's delightful to see Irene Dunn's way with a comic tune), there were tons of other by-products of the interest in the novel.

Claire Booth (later Luce) of THE WOMEN fame penned a minor hit play called KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE inspired by the "search" for a screen Scarlett. It tried out prior to Broadway in Boston down the street from the theatre where Paramount's erstwhile starlet Mary Martin was trying out in a musical (NICE GOIN', based on the hit play SAILOR BEWARE) that never made it beyond Boston - but when KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE made it to Hollywood, Martin starred in the film - before going on to become one of our greatest stage stars from the 40's through the 70's, originating the leads in shows like ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, LUTE SONG, SOUTH PACIFIC, PETER PAN, THE SOUND OF MUSIC and I DO I DO - but she remained one of the few women in Hollywood NEVER mentioned as a potential Scarlett in GWTW. .

[–] mikeoak840 17 years ago

My mistake - from the earlier post referring to the song as Gone with the Wind and speculating it was connected to the book or movie, it seemed like someone was refering to the movie Gone with the Wind and music from it. I'd forgotten about the song the little Southern gal sings with her shirt getting blown up whenever that phrase is repeated.

[–] redmama13 17 years ago

Yeah. I was just gonna say, y'all reading too much into that. In no way was that song connected to the film or book. It just happened to have the same title.