A SONG IS BORN
(RKO-Radio) "THIS is yum," says torch singer Virginia Mayo, coyly kissing Professor Danny Kaye on the lips. "And this," doing it again, "is yum-yum.," It isn’t very funny, though, and as the dazed professor dashes out to put his "head under the tap, the critic longs to reach for his hat and depart. But there are another 40 minutes to go yet. In its plot A Song Is Born is a pale imitation of an earlier picture called Ball of Fire (Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck). Apart from a few minutes of hot music from such experts as Benny Goodman (in disguise), Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Mel Powell, Charlie Barnet, and others, and one or two mildly comical moments from the irrepressible Danny, this show is pretty sad stuff about cops, robbers, and the irresistible impact of jazz (when combined with Miss Mayo’s brand: of cheesecake) on a bunch of cloistered highbrows. Howard Hawks, who directed it, must be in his seeond ‘teen-age.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 19
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167A SONG IS BORN New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 19
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