When Broadway went to Hollywood:
The Wizard of Oz, Gigi, Top Hat, High Society - some of the most popular movie musicals ever made were written by Broadway songwriters. The Sound of Music, Chicago, West Side Story, The Music Man, Grease - some of the other most popular movie musicals were adaptations of Broadway shows. From the ver...
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Zusammenfassung: | The Wizard of Oz, Gigi, Top Hat, High Society - some of the most popular movie musicals ever made were written by Broadway songwriters. The Sound of Music, Chicago, West Side Story, The Music Man, Grease - some of the other most popular movie musicals were adaptations of Broadway shows. From the very first talkies to the present, Broadway's composers and lyricists have given much of their best work to the movies - but with varying results. In the 1930s, Rodgers and Hart's Love Me Tonight, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald at their sexiest, is a masterpiece of fairytale sophistication. But Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, an Al Jolson vehicle about tramps in Central Park, is one of the outstanding flops, partly because Rodgers and Hart wrote it as a kind of opera that is spoken instead of sung. Or take the big films based on Broadway shows in the 1960s. After The Sound of Music, Hollywood sought to fill the screen with lots of scenery, lots of drama, and lots of Julie Andrews. But Camelot and Hello, Dolly! had too much scenery, Paint Your Wagon was the hippie musical, and Song of Norway was simply loony. Even Julie Andrews couldn't save the Broadway bio film called Star!, all about the adventures of Gertrude Lawrence. Who? As historians have begun to consider the movie musical along with the stage musical, Ethan Mordden explores just how influential such writers as Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and Stephen Sondheim have been when they moved from Broadway to Hollywood. Are the welcomed? Do they get to experiment, using the freedom of the camera to expand the very geography of song? Or do movie producers resent that New York sophistication? Broadway excels in the bittersweet "Send in the Clowns." But Hollywood wants it simple: "White Christmas." With his usual combination of scholarship and wicked wit, Ethan Mordden tantalizes us with anecdotes and fresh observations. He discusses many unusual titles as well - Viennese Nights, The Boys From Syracuse, Anything Goes, with Ethel Merman preserving her classic stage part as Reno Sweeney, the swinging evangelist. The first of its kind, this book is made for the moviegoer and theatre buff alike. - Ethan Mordden is a recognized authority on the American musical, and the author of such books as On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide, Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theater, Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Beautiful Mornin: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s, and Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. He lives in Manhattan. |
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520 | |a Who? As historians have begun to consider the movie musical along with the stage musical, Ethan Mordden explores just how influential such writers as Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and Stephen Sondheim have been when they moved from Broadway to Hollywood. Are the welcomed? Do they get to experiment, using the freedom of the camera to expand the very geography of song? Or do movie producers resent that New York sophistication? Broadway excels in the bittersweet "Send in the Clowns." But Hollywood wants it simple: "White Christmas." With his usual combination of scholarship and wicked wit, Ethan Mordden tantalizes us with anecdotes and fresh observations. He discusses many unusual titles as well - Viennese Nights, The Boys From Syracuse, Anything Goes, with Ethel Merman preserving her classic stage part as Reno Sweeney, the swinging evangelist. The first of its kind, this book is made for the moviegoer and theatre buff alike. - Ethan Mordden is a recognized authority on the American musical, and the author of such books as On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide, Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theater, Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Beautiful Mornin: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s, and Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. He lives in Manhattan. | ||
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spelling | Mordden, Ethan 1947- Verfasser (DE-588)1028275684 aut When Broadway went to Hollywood Ethan Mordden New York, NY Oxford University Press [2016] © 2016 1 Online-Ressource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Introduction. - 1. The First Hollywood Musicals. - 2. De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson. - 3. Irving Berlin. - 4. George and Ira Gershwin. - 5. Rodgers and Hart. - 6. Jerome Kern. - 7. Cole Porter. - 8. Operetta. - 9. Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser, and Harold Arlen. - 10. Direct from Broadway. - 11. Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe. - 12. The Last Hollywood Musicals. - Bibliography. - Index The Wizard of Oz, Gigi, Top Hat, High Society - some of the most popular movie musicals ever made were written by Broadway songwriters. The Sound of Music, Chicago, West Side Story, The Music Man, Grease - some of the other most popular movie musicals were adaptations of Broadway shows. From the very first talkies to the present, Broadway's composers and lyricists have given much of their best work to the movies - but with varying results. In the 1930s, Rodgers and Hart's Love Me Tonight, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald at their sexiest, is a masterpiece of fairytale sophistication. But Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, an Al Jolson vehicle about tramps in Central Park, is one of the outstanding flops, partly because Rodgers and Hart wrote it as a kind of opera that is spoken instead of sung. Or take the big films based on Broadway shows in the 1960s. After The Sound of Music, Hollywood sought to fill the screen with lots of scenery, lots of drama, and lots of Julie Andrews. But Camelot and Hello, Dolly! had too much scenery, Paint Your Wagon was the hippie musical, and Song of Norway was simply loony. Even Julie Andrews couldn't save the Broadway bio film called Star!, all about the adventures of Gertrude Lawrence. Who? As historians have begun to consider the movie musical along with the stage musical, Ethan Mordden explores just how influential such writers as Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and Stephen Sondheim have been when they moved from Broadway to Hollywood. Are the welcomed? Do they get to experiment, using the freedom of the camera to expand the very geography of song? Or do movie producers resent that New York sophistication? Broadway excels in the bittersweet "Send in the Clowns." But Hollywood wants it simple: "White Christmas." With his usual combination of scholarship and wicked wit, Ethan Mordden tantalizes us with anecdotes and fresh observations. He discusses many unusual titles as well - Viennese Nights, The Boys From Syracuse, Anything Goes, with Ethel Merman preserving her classic stage part as Reno Sweeney, the swinging evangelist. The first of its kind, this book is made for the moviegoer and theatre buff alike. - Ethan Mordden is a recognized authority on the American musical, and the author of such books as On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide, Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theater, Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Beautiful Mornin: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s, and Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. He lives in Manhattan. Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Motion picture music United States History and criticism Musical films United States History and criticism Filmmusical (DE-588)4154370-1 gnd rswk-swf Komponist (DE-588)4032009-1 gnd rswk-swf USA USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Broadway New York, NY (DE-588)4075359-1 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Broadway New York, NY (DE-588)4075359-1 g Komponist (DE-588)4032009-1 s Filmmusical (DE-588)4154370-1 s Geschichte z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-0-19-939540-8 https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199395408.001.0001 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
spellingShingle | Mordden, Ethan 1947- When Broadway went to Hollywood Introduction. - 1. The First Hollywood Musicals. - 2. De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson. - 3. Irving Berlin. - 4. George and Ira Gershwin. - 5. Rodgers and Hart. - 6. Jerome Kern. - 7. Cole Porter. - 8. Operetta. - 9. Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser, and Harold Arlen. - 10. Direct from Broadway. - 11. Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe. - 12. The Last Hollywood Musicals. - Bibliography. - Index Motion picture music United States History and criticism Musical films United States History and criticism Filmmusical (DE-588)4154370-1 gnd Komponist (DE-588)4032009-1 gnd |
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