BIOTECNIKA BLOG

Event Date as Display String:

Saturday, August 17, 2019, 7:00pm - 8:50pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019junaug/hawks.html#song

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019junaug/hawks.html#song
Looking for another vehicle for Danny Kaye, who was on a roll, Sam
Goldwyn wanted Hawks to remake "Ball of Fire," though it was a mere
five years old. In this second, Technicolor iteration, the group of
bachelor professors are at work on an exhaustive encyclopedia of
music. Kaye plays Hobart Frisbee, the intellectual naïf who falls for
Virginia Mayo's interloping nightclub chanteuse with mob connections.
The appearance of multitalented duo Buck and Bubbles — similar to
their roles in William Keighley's "Varsity Show" (1937) — livens up
the professors' stodgy studies; Frisbee is transformed by their jazzy
renditions of classical music, and his explorations into these
unfamiliar rhythms comprise some of the movie's most entertaining
scenes. Unlike his relationship to the leads, Hawks was as charmed as
contemporary viewers will be by the impressive line-up of jazz greats
— including Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and Lionel
Hampton — who form a striking ensemble of black and white musicians
performing together. For a Hollywood picture in 1948, depicting the
lead character so out of place and out of touch when entering a
lively, packed jazz club seems revolutionary, a momentary vision of an
industry unprejudiced.

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Saturday, August 17, 2019 - 19:00 to 20:50

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