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Admired and praised by the likes of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer has been described as "one of our great folk poets" and "the most perfect American lyricist". Throughout his extraordinary career, he collaborated with hundreds of composers to write legendary movie songs such as "Hooray for Hollywood", "Jeepers Creepers" and "Moon River". Mercer then went on to co-found Capitol Records in 1942 and became a successful Broadway producer of St. Louis Woman and L'il Abner.
Songs
レジーナは友人とのスキー旅行の途中で離婚を決意するが、帰宅すると夫は死んでいた。さらに、夫が戦時中に3人の男と軍資金を横領したあげく、仲間をだましていた事実が発覚する。3人から脅迫を受けるはめになったレジーナは、旅行で知り合ったピーターに助けを求めるが……。
Lyricist
ジョン・フォードら3人の監督によるオムニバス形式の壮大な歴史絵巻。アメリカ西部開拓時代の50年間を、三代にわたる開拓一家の視点から壮大なスケールで描く。ジョン・ウェイン、グレゴリー・ペックら豪華なキャストにも注目。
Original Music Composer
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
Songs
朝の宝石店ティファニーの前でデニッシュを食べる娼婦のホリーは、引っ越してきたばかりの駆け出し作家ポールと出会う。酔っぱらいから逃げて部屋へ来て、 眠り込んでしまった彼女にポールは興味を抱く。
Lyricist
A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that they must evacuate because of atomic bomb testing, they try to persuade the government that their town is worth saving. Meanwhile, Earthquake McGoon wants to marry Daisy Mae; Daisy Mae wants to marry Li'l Abner, and Li'l Abner just wants to go fishing.
Songs
フレッド・アステアとレスリー・キャロンによるMGM製作のミュージカル。顔の知らない“足ながおじさん”に思いを寄せる孤児を中心に、優雅な踊りと歌を多く盛り込んだロマンティックな名作。
Lyricist
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Songs
Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important department store. Jerry meets Sally Peters, one of the department store models, and makes her part of his TV troupe. As part of his campaign to court Sally, Jerry gets Cliff Lane, the tenor of his TV company, to sing to her over the phone. When Sally and Cliff meet, they fall in love, with Biffle ignorant of the complications.
Lyricist
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
Lyricist
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Lyricist
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
Music
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Lyricist
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Member of the Band
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Colonel
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.