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A Song is Born may be seventy (70) years old now but the song remains the same. This is a romance disguised as a mobster movie, The sexy nightclub singer Honey Swanson (Virginia Mayo) finds her very own Prince Charming in the form of Professor Hobart Frisbee (Danny Kaye) when she takes the Professor up on his offer to assist him in documenting the history of this new musical discovery from the United Sates called "jazz music".
So Honey Swanson needs to find a place to lay low to avoid the federal investigators from subpoenaing her so she hides out at Professor Hobart Frisbee's academic school of music where the two lovebirds fall madly in love. The wicked witch is played by mobster Tony Crow (Steve Cochran) who sends for his dame Honey Swanson so that he can marry her so as his wife, she can't squeal to the Feds on a murder rap that they have targeted Tony Crow for committing.
Virginia Mayo's beauty as Honey Swanson is not animated as in the Disney classic as she is a true beauty of the silver screen age. Danny Kaye who can't help but fall in love with Honey hears the music playing constantly in his head once he sets eyes first on Honey.
The film has great jazz music, the comedy of Danny Kaye and his seven (7) stooges who are all his fellow music professors who have to find a way to save their princess Honey Swanson, and a barrage of cameo appearances by many of the great jazz legends of the time.
This comedy/romance/musical is sure to rock your world! I give it a solid 9 out of 10 rating.
score 9/10
Ed-Shullivan 4 May 2018
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