What was the song they were playing when...
...the musician bit his lip and the rehearsal stopped while Miller rearranged. It sounds familiar but I don't know what it is. Help!
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The song was Moonlight Serenade. What an excellent film, and great music.
I don't know if you remember, but you responded to a message board I posted about the jewels Lana Turner wore in Imitation of Life being the same as the ones worn by Doris Day in Pillow Talk. We share an enjoyment of finding these things, and you asked me what eles I'd found.
The facade of the mansion used in Written on the Wind is the same as the facade of the mansion used in High Society;
The staircase and foyer of the mansion in Written on the Wind is the same staircase and foyer as that used for the house Glenn Miller lives in in The Glenn Miller Story (where he dances with his wife for their anniversary);
The house that Millie lives in in the beginning of Old Acquaintance, is the same one used in Three Daughters and sequels; and
The brooch that Ilsa wears when she first visits Rick's Place in Casablance (it looks a bit like a crane with one leg tucked up), is worn by Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.
Hope you find these of interest.
Regards
Lee (from Australia)
Lee,
I know Moonlight Searnade and I dont think that was it. But yes I love all that trivia stuff.
The staircase in the Glenn Miller Story is also the same one you'd find in "Tammy and the Bachelor" with Debbie Reynolds. Its also in some B&W Tony Curtis film mid 50s where he played a gambler.
And speaking of staircases, the famous Auntie Mame staircase was in a ton of films:
1948 Bright Leaf Bacall's Southern Plantation
1950 Tea for Two Doris Day's Long Island mansion
1951 Strangers on a Train Leo G Carrol's Washington Mansion
1953 So Big Mansion of possible father in law
1957 Band of Angeles Clark Gable's southern plantation
1957 Spirit of St Louis Hotel lobby before Lindburgh takes off
1958 Auntie Mame Mame's Beekman Pl home, reset many times
1959 A Summer Place Fancy school attended by Sandra Dee
1960 Ocean's Eleven Ilka Chase's fancy mansion
1961 Parrish Karl Malden's mansion
1962 Rome Adventure Rossano Brassi's Rome apartment
Meanwhile at MGM mid 40s theres a double staircase in "Mrs Parkington" also used in "White Cliffs of Dover"
Keep in touch.
Richard
Ilsa's brooch was also worn by Lisa the sister in law in Now, Voyager iin the family party scene when the "new" Charlotte entertains her brothers, wives and an uncle.
shareIt has the words"laughing on the outside, crying on the inside" Forgot the title.
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