I'll See You in My Dreams
The glorious story of Gus Kahn, the songs he wrote into American heart, and the girl who put them into his!!
Doris Day and Danny Thomas romantically collaborate in this affectionate biopic of tunesmith Gun Kahn that's a treasure chest of some of this century's greatest songs.
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Charming, and Day sings a few tunes - Port_Moresby
Unremarkable but pleasant film biography of song lyricist Gus Kahn, whose clever and lovely words still grace the lips of singers today. Danny Thomas plays Kahn, a delivery man who spent years writing song lyrics and poems before finally taking them to a music store and showing them to a whiz of a song seller (Doris Day) who saw his talent immediately. The two of them hit the road to sell his work, eventually falling in love and getting married as she pushes him to the greatest heights, working with such luminaries as Gershwin and for such great producers as Ziegfeld and, in time, the silver screen. While it smells of having been scrubbed up for the big screen (notice the similarities with films such as Night And Day, Words and Music and Til The Clouds Roll By), it doesn’t seem that Kahn’s life could have been too interesting in even the most honest of terms, and the emphasis placed on him having to get over his domineering wife eventually grows annoyingly offensive. However, it is nice to hear Day singing “Makin’ Whoopee”, though in general she is underused, and Thomas gives a heartfelt performance that carries the picture admirably.
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Charming, and Day sings a few tunes - Port_Moresby
Unremarkable but pleasant film biography of song lyricist Gus Kahn, whose clever and lovely words still grace the lips of singers today. Danny Thomas plays Kahn, a delivery man who spent years writing song lyrics and poems before finally taking them to a ...