Dan Dailey as Ray Henderson, Gordon Macrae as Buddy De Sylva, and Ernest Borgnine as Lew Brown, were born to play these roles.
The Best Things in life are free, captures the 1920's superbly. And I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when these three writers were coming up with their never to be forgotten song standards.
Hollywood churned out many biog's of their songwriters in the 40's and 50's, and this is by far the most entertaining, and interesting. I disagree with every negative review.
When is comes to all of America's great songwriters from the past, I'm betting that the average American could not put the songwriters name to their favorite song from the 20's 30's and 40's. And this is a crime.
From Tin Pan Alley, to the great depression in 1929, and the Hollywood musical when most songwriters left New York to work in the Hollywood factory's to write up the great musicals that are still enjoyed today, these songwriters have been largely forgotten when it comes to the songs they wrote.
I'm an Englishman aged 65 on April 10th 2013, and I've studied the lives and works of the Great American songwriters since my late teens. And I believe that all Americans should know the name of the songwriters or writers who composed their favorite song standard.
Henderson, De-Silva and Brown, were indeed up there with Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin etc. What a legacy these writers and more, have left to the world in the finest songs ever written.
The Best Things in life are free, captures the 1920's superbly. And I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when these three writers were coming up with their never to be forgotten song standards.
Hollywood churned out many biog's of their songwriters in the 40's and 50's, and this is by far the most entertaining, and interesting. I disagree with every negative review.
When is comes to all of America's great songwriters from the past, I'm betting that the average American could not put the songwriters name to their favorite song from the 20's 30's and 40's. And this is a crime.
From Tin Pan Alley, to the great depression in 1929, and the Hollywood musical when most songwriters left New York to work in the Hollywood factory's to write up the great musicals that are still enjoyed today, these songwriters have been largely forgotten when it comes to the songs they wrote.
I'm an Englishman aged 65 on April 10th 2013, and I've studied the lives and works of the Great American songwriters since my late teens. And I believe that all Americans should know the name of the songwriters or writers who composed their favorite song standard.
Henderson, De-Silva and Brown, were indeed up there with Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Irving Berlin etc. What a legacy these writers and more, have left to the world in the finest songs ever written.