Monday, June 1, 2009

Trailer Trash: The Singing Baroness

Interrupted Melody is a gorgeous guilty pleasure - a surefire mix of to-die-for sets, fab stage and "real life" costumes (check out the fur-trimmed hostess gown at 1:46), Eleanor Parker's emoting, Eileen Farrell's voice, and "Over the Rainbow", all of it captured in glorious CinemaScope. Who could ask for anything more?

Well, aside from something a little more eye-candy oriented than Glenn Ford as the leading man...

2 comments:

  1. Glenn Ford. There is no other time than the sexless 50s when someone with the charm and vivacity of Stalin era architecture could have a career in the movies. He can't even spell his own name right.

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  2. My mother's favorite album when I was growin up was Eileen Farrell's I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues. There ain't nuthin' like a fat Oirish broad singing "Suppertime" to remind you that Lynching was invented in the West O'Ireland.

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