If I Only Had A Brain The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited) Starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton Academy Award Best Original Song – Over the Rainbow Academy Award Best Original Score – Herbert Stothart Harold Arlen (1905 – 1986) Pianist/singer worked as an accompanist… Read more →
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The Perfect Song – The Way You Look Tonight
Welcome to The Great American Songbook and notes on the crème de la crème ballad, Academy Award winner for Best Song, The Way You Look Tonight by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. From the 1936 Hollywood film Swing Time, directed by George Stevens, with screenplay by Broadway luminary Howard Lindsay, starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, and Helen… Read more →