Virginia Mayo rests a leg between takes of A Song is Born (1948), Howard Hawks was disappointed with the two leads in the film.. Replacing Danny Kaye with Bing Crosby might have made the film a classic, and replacing Virginia with most any talented actress in Hollywood would have made her character more interesting and appealing.
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Danny Kaye leads a group of musicians in A Song is Born (1948), including Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and Charlie Barnett,
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The back of this publicity still reads
A SONG IS BORN
PROFESSOR IN LOVE – Danny Kaye as mild mannered music professor falls in love with glamorous torch singer Virginia Mayo in Samuel Goldwyn’s spectacular musical comedy, “A Song is Born,” which co-stars the pair and features some of the nation’s leading jazz musicians, Directed by Howard Hawks, the RKO Radio release with color by Technicolor tells the story of a man who finds the mixture of gangsters and gala almost too much for him.
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original half sheet poster for A Song is Born (1948).
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Australian poster for A Song is Born (1948), Howard Hawks’ remake of his Ball of Fire (1942).
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Howard Hawks directing Barbara Stanwyck on the set of Ball of Fire (1942)
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Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Krupa enjoying themselves behind the scenes of Ball of Fire (1942)
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original poster for Ball of Fire (1942)
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Barbara Stanwyck as Sugarpuss O’Shea in Ball of Fire (1942)
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drummer Gene Krupa and Barbara Stanwyck behind the scenes of Ball of Fire (1942)
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final version of the screenplay for The Dawn Patrol, dated Mar 14, 1930, autographed by Frank McHugh and Douglas Fairbanks Jr in 1968 and 69.
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original lobby card for The Dawn Patrol (1930)
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original lobby card for The Dawn Patrol (1930)
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Howard Hawks was a licensed pilot and did some of the stunt work in The Dawn Patrol (1930)
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Richard Barthelmess as Dick Courtney in an original publicity still for The Dawn Patrol (1930)
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