Sing Your Way Home

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Movie
Original title Sing Your Way Home
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 72 minutes
Rod
Director Anthony Mann
script William Bowers
production Bert Granet
for RKO Radio Pictures
music Roy Webb
camera Frank Redman
cut Harry Marker
occupation

Sing Your Way Home (German singing on your way home is) an American musical film directed by Anthony Mann from 1945, which starred with Jack Haley , Marcy McGuire , Glenn Vernon and Anne Jeffreys are occupied.

William Bower's script is based on a story by Edmund Joseph and Bart Lytton.

action

World War II : Young Kay Lawrence is stranded in occupied France. She makes a living by singing. Kay longs for her home, where she wants to go back. The self-centered reporter Steve Kimball has written a book about his war experiences and now wants to leave France for home. There he is planning a series of lectures. Since wartime transatlantic travel is in great demand, Steve's employer places him in the job of overseeing a troupe of fifteen young singers and dancers who have toured Europe for a long time on their way home. Bridget Forrester also sneaks on board, with whom the young singer Jimmy McCue promptly falls in love. But Kay's dream also seems to come true when she gets a place on the ship.

On the ocean liner, Steve Kimball clashes with the captain, who then forbids him to continue using the radio. To circumvent the ban, he asks Bridget for help. Bridget, who has fallen in love with Steve, intercepts one of his coded messages and draws wrong conclusions from it. Since something has happened between Steve and Kay in the meantime and Bridget wants to prevent a possible love affair between them, she tells Kay untruthfully that Steve had already received dozens of love confessions during the trip. In return, Kay succeeds in attaching a sentence to a message sent by Steve, which triggers an incredible development in the newspaper's editor. One puzzles whether this news is actually true and whether it can be printed in the newspaper. Since Steve has always been right about his reports, the newspaper decides to print the incredible news, namely that the nations have accepted a peace plan. However, as the truth quickly emerged, Steve was arrested on his arrival in New York. Bridget, who suspects that Kay has something to do with the new situation, goes to the club where she sings and tells her what happened. Since Kay didn't want Steve to get into such a situation, she clears up the matter so that everything turns out fine for both of them. And Bridget and Jimmy also get closer.

production

Production notes

The shooting lasted from November 27th to the end of December 1944. Albert S. D'Agostino and Al Herman were responsible for the construction of the film, and Harley Miller and Darrell Silvera for the equipment . Renié was responsible for the costumes. Constantin Bakaleinikoff was the musical director of the film .

Soundtrack

  • Heaven is a Place called Home , music: Allie Wrubel , lyrics: Herb Magidson ,
    sung by Glenn Vernon, David Forrest, James Jordan Jr, Patti Brill, Donna Lee, Nancy Marlow and others,
    sung again by Anne Jeffreys
  • Seven O'Clock in the Morning , music and lyrics as before,
    sung by Marcy McGuire and a choir
  • The Lord's Prayer sung by a choir
  • I'll Buy That Dream , music and lyrics as before,
    sung by Anne Jeffreys and choir,
    sung again by Marcy McGuire and Glenn Vernon
  • Who Did It? , Music and lyrics as before,
    sung by Marcy McGuire and a choir

publication

The film was first shown in the United States on November 14, 1945. The working title was Follow Your Heart . It was also published under the title Canta-Me Teu Amores in Brazil, under the title Canta quando torni a casa in Italy and under the title El código del amor in Spain. A German dubbed version was not created, and the film was not released in Germany either.

reception

criticism

On the Comet over Hollywood page there is talk of a cute little musical film with Haley in an Ernie Pyle- like role, but he is the boastful version of Pyle. Although Sing Your Way Home is not very good, it is one of the fun musicals of the 1940s with young talents who could sing and dance and make you want to dance with them. Not every film can be a ten-star film, you need the smaller, inexpensive B-films so that you can see what is really good. But it helps if these B-films are as funny and lovable as this one.

TV Guide said that leading actor Jack Haley does little more than what is required of him, although he occasionally shows a glimmer of real talent. The music in the film is not the worst, but nothing special either. The only highlight in the teenage cast is Marcy McGuire.

Award

Allie Wrubel and Herb Magidson were nominated for an Oscar in 1946 for their song I'll Buy That Dream in the category "Best Song" , which, however, went to Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers and their song It Might as Well Be Spring for the musical film Fair the love went.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sing Your Way Home see page catalog.afi.com (English).
  2. ↑ Musical Monday: Sing Your Way Home see page cometoverhollywood.com (English, including film excerpt).
    Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ Sing Your Way Home see page tvguide.com (English). Retrieved January 11, 2020.