NACE UNA CANCION (SONG IS BORN, A)
Dirigido por HOWARD HAWKS, 1948
ESTADOS UNIDOS Largometraje Productoras:
SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRODUCTIONS (ESTADOS UNIDOS)
Intérpretes:
DANNY KAYE, VIRGINIA MAYO, BENNY GOODMAN, HUGH HERBERT, STEVE COCHRAN, J. EDWARD BROMBERG, FELIX BRESSART, LUDWIG STOSSEL, O. Z. WHITEHEAD, ESTHER DALE, MARY FIELD, HOWLAND CHAMBERLIN, PAUL LANGTON, SIDNEY BLACKMER, BEN WELDEN Guión: HARRY TUGEND
Argumento: BASADO EN EL CUENTO "FROM A TO Z" DE BILLY WILDER Y THOMAS MONROE Y EN LA PELICULA "BOLA DE FUEGO"
Director de fotografía: GREGG TOLAND
Música: HUGO NEWMAN, EMIL FRIEDHOFER
35 MILIMETROS. COLOR. NORMAL.
Duración: 00113 minutos
This is a musical remake of the 1940 classic "Ball of Fire". The plot is almost the same, a gangster's moll crashes the residence of a bunch of professors who are writing an encyclopedia, and falls in love the the youngest one. This time they're a musical encyclopedia rather than a generalized one, which allows for a lot of musical numbers, some of them pretty enjoyable. It's a lively, superficial, colorful musical with some laughs to it, if you haven't seen "Ball of Fire" you'll probably have quite a good time.
But the film and especially the performances are vastly inferior to the original. Virginia Mayo is the same as she always was in musical comedies, a sort of generic leading lady/straight man. Danny Kaye is limited by his role, he's playing an uptight nerd and can't use his fabulous manic energy at all for most of the film (Gary Cooper was absolutely hilarious as the uptight nerd in the original, he was one good actor). The supporting performances are all pretty cartoonish, none stand out, but there are appearances by Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, and Lionel Hampton which you might want to catch.
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