The song Stranger in Paradise featured in which 1955 film musical?
"musical ""Kismet"", the beautiful Marsinah is viewing the garden of a house her father wishes to buy. The young Caliph, who is dressed in disguise, has already been struck by her beauty from afar and enters the garden pretending to be a gardener, so that he might speak to her. She begins to sing about how the garden has been strangely transformed before her eyes. He takes over the song and sings about how he, too, strangely feels he has entered paradise when he stands beside an angel such as she. In the song he asks for an indication that"
"Stranger Than Paradise Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 American black-and-white absurdist/deadpan comedy film, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint. The film features a minimalist plot in which the main character, Willie, has a cousin from Hungary named Eva. Eva stays with him for ten days before going to Cleveland. Willie and his friend Eddie eventually go to Cleveland to visit Eva. This film is shot entirely in single long takes with no standard coverage. The film is a three-act story about Willie"
"Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Strangely for a very American film, ""Bachelor in Paradise"" had its World Premiere at the Coliseum Theatre in London's West End on November 2, 1961 with a personal appearance from Bob Hope. A.J. Niles is a provocative best-selling author who discovers that he has a large tax debt owed to the IRS, due to being ripped off by his accountant, Herman Wapinger. He goes undercover under the alias ""Jack Adams"" in a California suburban community called, ""Paradise Village"", to research a new book about the wives and lives there. Niles is pursued by a flirtatious"
"A Stranger in Paradise A Stranger in Paradise is a 2013 thriller film directed by Corrado Boccia and starring Colin Egglesfield, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Stuart Townsend. Josh Pratt (Colin Egglesfield) is on the verge of becoming a partner at his multibillion-dollar hedge fund, but then his life is turned upside down when the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates the head of the fund for insider trading. Pratt finds himself forced into a “vacation” he never asked for; he ends up in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is deeply involved with the Thai"
"popularity of ""Stranger in Paradise"" in the UK is reflected by the fact that no fewer than six versions charted in 1955: besides the chart topper by Tony Bennett, others include the versions by the Four Aces (No. 6), Tony Martin (No. 6), Bing Crosby (No. 17), Don Cornell (No. 19), as well as an instrumental version by Eddie Calvert (No. 14) in the UK chart listings. In the same year, the song was recorded in France by Gloria Lasso as ""Étranger au paradis"". Billy Eckstine with the Hal Mooney Orchestra, Mose Allison, Peter Bernstein (guitarist), Sarah Brightman, Sammy Davis,"
"underwhelm."" A Stranger in Paradise A Stranger in Paradise is a 2013 thriller film directed by Corrado Boccia and starring Colin Egglesfield, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Stuart Townsend. Josh Pratt (Colin Egglesfield) is on the verge of becoming a partner at his multibillion-dollar hedge fund, but then his life is turned upside down when the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates the head of the fund for insider trading. Pratt finds himself forced into a “vacation” he never asked for; he ends up in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is deeply involved with the"
"Quartet, consisting of Jill B. Jaffe (viola), Mary L. Rowell (violin), Kay Stern (violin), and Eugene Moye (cello). The recording engineer for the sessions was Ollie Cotton. The original song ""I Put a Spell on You"" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins features prominently in the soundtrack. Stranger Than Paradise Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 American black-and-white absurdist/deadpan comedy film, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint. The film features a minimalist plot in which the main character, Willie, has a cousin from Hungary named"
"is a list of studio recordings. A comprehensive list of all recordings of ""Prince Igor"" may be found at operadis-opera-discography.org.uk Audio Video In the American musical ""Kismet"" (1953), most of the score was adapted from works by Borodin. Themes from the Polovtsian Dances from ""Prince Igor"" were used extensively and the ""Gliding Dance of the Maidens"" provided the melody for the popular hit song ""Stranger in Paradise"" In ""The Simpsons"" episode ""Simpson Tide"", the Boyar's Chorus (Act 1, Scene 2) plays while tanks emerge from parade floats during a peace parade on Red Square in front of Saint Basil's, soldiers"
"Coppola's film The Godfather Part II (1974). Mr. Wonderful (1955 song) ""Mr. Wonderful"" is a popular song, written in 1955 written by Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, and Larry Holofcener, as the title song of a Broadway musical starring Sammy Davis Jr. The song was introduced in the musical by Olga James. The most popular contemporary recordings of the song were done by Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan and Teddi King. All of these reached the Billboard charts in 1956. It also makes a memorable appearance sung (largely out of tune) by a boys choir at the Lake Tahoe First Communion"
"the film available in the future. An audio recording of the 1958 London production has been released, but no complete recording of the Broadway score ever appeared, due to the 1948 recording ban. Bolger and the cast recorded two songs for a 45-rpm single, ""Once in Love With Amy"" b/w ""Make a Miracle"" (Decca 1-191) and a 78-rpm record (Decca 40065). (This version of ""Once in Love with Amy"" appears on several Broadway CD anthologies.) A 1952 film was made by Warner Bros., featuring Bolger and other original castmembers. David Vincent and a reporter discuss this musical in The Invaders"
"Bachelor in Paradise (film) Bachelor in Paradise is a 1961 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner. Directed by Jack Arnold, it was written by Valentine Davies and Hal Kanter, based on a story by Vera Caspary. It co-stars Paula Prentiss, Jim Hutton and Janis Paige. The film won three Laurel awards for Best Comedy, Best Comedy Actor (Hope) and song (""Bachelor in Paradise"", music: Henry Mancini and lyrics: Mack David), which was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song. Bob Hope was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor –"
"Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being ""White Christmas"". The film features a complete reuse of the song ""Easter Parade"", written by Berlin for the 1933 Broadway revue ""As Thousands Cheer"". The film's choreography was by Danny Dare. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for ""White Christmas""), as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and"
"actor and comedian Bob Hope to entertain the troops during World War 2. Mr. Washburn is best known for his roles as Marius in Josh Logan's 'Fanny' on Broadway, where he replaced Bill Tabbert as the lead after Tabbert became ill, and the 1954 film ""The Black Orchid"" starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn. Diane also appeared on the popular television series Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts, where she introduced her husband onto stage to sing 'Rags to Riches.' Mr. Washburn received ""wild applause"" and won the show. She also played the 'Stranger in Paradise' for Perry Como on his long"
"Interrupted Melody Interrupted Melody is a 1955 biographical musical film in CinemaScope and Technicolor, which tells the story of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence's struggle with polio. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Curtis Bernhardt, and produced by Jack Cummings from a screenplay by Marjorie Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig. The operatic sequences were staged by Vladimir Rosing. The film stars Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, and Cecil Kellaway. The singing voice of Lawrence was provided by Eileen Farrell; Farrell also appears on screen as a student struggling to hit a high note in a scene"
"perfect musical comedy"". On November 3, 1955 the film version of the musical was released, starring Marlon Brando as Sky, Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, and Jean Simmons as Sarah, with Vivian Blaine reprising her role as Adelaide. The film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Three new songs, written by Frank Loesser, were added to the film: ""Pet Me Poppa""; ""A Woman in Love""; and ""Adelaide"", which was written specifically for Sinatra. Five songs from the stage musical were omitted from the movie: ""A Bushel and a Peck"", ""My Time of Day"", ""I've Never"
"Mr. Wonderful (1955 song) ""Mr. Wonderful"" is a popular song, written in 1955 written by Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, and Larry Holofcener, as the title song of a Broadway musical starring Sammy Davis Jr. The song was introduced in the musical by Olga James. The most popular contemporary recordings of the song were done by Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan and Teddi King. All of these reached the Billboard charts in 1956. It also makes a memorable appearance sung (largely out of tune) by a boys choir at the Lake Tahoe First Communion celebrations at the beginning of Francis Ford"
"It is melodic and gay"". Bloom and Vlastnik noted that it was the score that made the show successful, as the songs ""Stranger in Paradise"" and ""Baubles, Bangles and Beads"" were ""huge hits on radio, television and records."" ""Kismet"" was even more successful in London's West End, enjoying a 648 performance run at the Stoll Theatre commencing in April 1955. The London production opened with the three stars of the Broadway cast, Drake, Morrow and Diener. They were subsequently replaced by Tudor Evans, Elizabeth Larner and Sheila Bradley, respectively. The first Australian production opened at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne in"
"including ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" (1944), ""Easter Parade"" (1948), ""On the Town"" (1949), ""Show Boat"" (1951), ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), and ""The Band Wagon"" (1953). Edens eventually separated from the MGM unit in the mid-1950s when the musical film's days of glory were coming to an end. He had his own office and worked on such projects as ""Funny Face"" (1957) with Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson at Paramount. Edens is considered to be an important creative musical figure from the end of the 1930s until the beginning of the 1960s."
"Carousel (film) Carousel is a 1956 American musical film based on the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play ""Liliom"". The film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and was directed by Henry King. Like the original stage production, the film contains what many critics consider some of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most beautiful songs, as well as what may be, along with the plots of ""Allegro"" and ""South Pacific"", the most serious storyline found in their musicals. The story revolves around Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome"
"corporate musicals, private shows only seen by their employees or customers. The 1950s ended with Rodgers and Hammerstein's last hit, ""The Sound of Music"", which also became another hit for Mary Martin. It ran for 1,443 performances and shared the Tony Award for Best Musical. Together with its extremely successful 1965 film version, it has become one of the most popular musicals in history. In 1960, ""The Fantasticks"" was first produced off-Broadway. This intimate allegorical show would quietly run for over 40 years at the Sullivan Street Theatre in Greenwich Village, becoming by far the longest-running musical in history. Its"
"Easter Parade (film) Easter Parade is a 1948 American musical film starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Peter Lawford, featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as ""Easter Parade"", ""Steppin' Out with My Baby"", and ""We're a Couple of Swells"". It was the most financially successful picture for both Garland and Astaire as well as the highest-grossing musical of the year. In 1912, Broadway star Don Hewes (Fred Astaire) is buying Easter presents for his sweetheart (""Happy Easter""). At one store, he must persuade a young boy to part with a cuddly Easter"
"Strange Intruder Strange Intruder is a 1956 film noir crime film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Edmund Purdom and Ida Lupino. Dying in a Korea prisoner-of-war camp, Adrian Carmichael learns his wife Alice has been unfaithful back home. He makes friend Paul Quentin promise not to let the Carmichaels' children be raised by another man, no matter what. Paul escapes from camp and is treated for trauma in a U.S. hospital for veterans. Having no family of his own, he visits Carmichael's and is made welcome. Alice has ended her affair with Howard Gray, but he is blackmailing her."
"of songs or characters. The 1954 Marc Blitzstein adaptation of ""The Threepenny Opera"", which ran for six years, showed that musicals could be profitable off-Broadway in a small-scale, small orchestra format. This was confirmed in 1959 when a revival of Jerome Kern and P. G. Wodehouse's ""Leave It to Jane"" ran for more than two years. The 1959–1960 Off-Broadway season included a dozen musicals and revues including ""Little Mary Sunshine"", ""The Fantasticks"", which ran for over 40 years, and ""Ernest in Love"", a musicalization of Oscar Wilde's 1895 hit ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". The original Off-Broadway production opened on"
"The Blue Paradise The Blue Paradise is a musical in a prologue and two acts, with music by Edmund Eysler, Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards, lyrics primarily by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on the operetta ""Ein Tag im Paradies"" (""A Day in Paradise"", 1913) by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and . The story is set in a Viennese cafe, where a man realizes that he cannot recapture his long lost love. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1915 and enjoyed a successful run. It introduced the song “Auf Wiedersehn”, Romberg’s first song"
"Bernardine (film) Bernardine is a 1957 American musical film directed by Henry Levin and starring Pat Boone, Terry Moore, Dean Jagger, Dick Sargent, and (in her last film, after a 19-year absence) Janet Gaynor. The 1952 play upon which the movie is based was written by Mary Coyle Chase, the Denver playwright who also wrote the smash hit Broadway play ""Harvey"". The title song, with words and music by Johnny Mercer, became a hit record for Boone. At Wingate High School, Vernon Kinswood (Hooper Dunbar), Arthur ""Beau"" Beaumont (Pat Boone) and Sanford ""Fofo Bidnut"" Wilson (Dick Sargent) race cars and"
"of his compositions in the 1953 musical ""Kismet"", by Robert Wright and George Forrest, notably in the songs ""Stranger in Paradise"" and ""And This Is My Beloved"". In 1954, Borodin was posthumously awarded a Tony Award for this show. Borodin's music is full of romantic charm and enticing melody, and much of it also rings with the pageantry and landscape of old Russia; of onion-domed churches, richly decorated icons, and the vastness of the land. (Betty Fry) On November 12, 2018, Google recognized him with a doodle. Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (; 12 November 183327 February 1887) was a"
"the mystery guests on episode number 298 of ""What's My Line"", which first aired on February 19, 1956; blindfolded panelist Arlene Francis was able to correctly identify them. The pair made a rare feature film appearance in MGM's 1953 production ""Main Street to Broadway"", in which Rodgers played the piano and Hammerstein sang a song they had written. They also appeared in the trailer for the film version of ""South Pacific"" in 1958. While Rodgers and Hammerstein's work contains cheerful and often uplifting songs, they departed from the comic and sentimental tone of early 20th century musicals by seriously addressing"
"popular singers, they also were featured vocalists for bandleaders like Spike Jones and their solo work is part of many Disney films. For example, ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Lady and the Tramp"" and ""The Jungle Book"" as well as numerous animated shorts, including ""Trick or Treat"" (1952), ""Pigs Is Pigs"" (1954), ""Paul Bunyan"" (1958), and ""Noah's Ark"" (1959). Their work for Disney also led to numerous television appearances, beginning with the ""Disneyland"" television show episode ""Cavalcade of Songs"", originally broadcast February 16, 1955. The Mellomen were also featured frequently on Disneyland Records, which released their 1957 album ""Meet Me"
"Lilacs in the Spring Lilacs in the Spring is a 1954 British musical film starring Anna Neagle and Errol Flynn. It was the first of two movies the stars made together, the other being ""King's Rhapsody"". It was released in the USA as Let's Make Up. It was the feature film debut of (the then-unknown) Sean Connery. A young actress, Carole Beaumont, is wooed by actor-producer Charles King but she is unsure how she feels about him. During an air raid in the Blitz, a bomb explosion rocks the cafe and Carole is knocked unconscious. In her confused state, fantasies"
"jazz pianist Dave Brubeck in 1952 and included on his 1957 Columbia album ""Dave Digs Disney"". The song, ""In a World of My Own,"" is included on the of """". The film soundtrack was first released on LP record on July 28, 1951. The soundtrack was re-released on Audio CD by Walt Disney Records on February 3, 1998. ""Alice in Wonderland"" premiered at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on July 26, 1951. Following the film's initial lukewarm reception, it was never re-released theatrically in Disney's lifetime, instead being shown occasionally on television. ""Alice in Wonderland"" aired as the second"
"Not as a Stranger Not as a Stranger is a 1955 American drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra, and based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Morton Thompson. The romantic melodrama novel was widely popular, topping that year's list of bestselling novels in the United States. Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) is a brilliant and dedicated medical student who has aspired to be a doctor since childhood. His mother is dead and he is estranged from his alcoholic father, who has squandered the family's money, leaving Lucas"
"New York, Sammy Fain had heard that the Disney studios wanted him to compose songs for ""Alice in Wonderland"". He also suggested lyricist Bob Hilliard as his collaborator. The two wrote two unused songs for the film, ""Beyond the Laughing Sky"" and ""I'm Odd"". The music for the former song was kept but the lyrics were changed, and it later became the title song for ""Peter Pan"", ""The Second Star to the Right"". By April 1950, Cahn and Hilliard had finished composing songs for the film. The title song, composed by Sammy Fain, has become a jazz standard, adapted by"
"directed by Dani Jacobs and features Collins performing the song, intercut with clips from ""Tarzan"". Strangers Like Me ""Strangers Like Me"" is a song by the English drummer Phil Collins for the soundtrack of Disney's 1999 animated film ""Tarzan"". The song peaked at number ten on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. This song has also appeared in the film's Broadway musical. The song talks about Tarzan's fascination with Jane, Professor Porter, and Clayton, as well as the wider human world he has yet to see. The song has a verse describing Tarzan's feelings for Jane. The music"