By Saul Chaplin
An academy award winner who labored on greater than sixty movies as songwriter, vocal arranger, pianist, musical director, and manufacturer stocks his insider's view of the key studios and his operating relationships with nice songwriters and performers of his period. UP.
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I was with him once when he found a nickel. He looked at me. " One night we were at a large party. He motioned to me from across the room that he wanted to talk to me. I made my way through the crowd to where he was standing, surrounded by people. He excused himself, took me by the arm, and walked me to a corner of the room. " A group of us lunched together every day. Our conversations ranged over every subject imaginable. One day we were talking about suicide. " He was away from the studio for several weeks, during which time one of the MGM executives had been discharged.
It was decided to hold another preview as soon as possible in another theater. It was shown again within a week, and this time the audience went wild. They applauded almost every number and had a marvelous time. We were euphoric. html[11/25/2011 9:23:56 PM] page_14 < previous page page_14 next page > Page 14 condescendingly. Except for Rita. '' It was a most uncomfortable hour, after which he ordered us all into the room with the piano and commanded Rita to sing. She obeyed like an automaton. Siegal had made her several very attractive arrangements, but they couldn't hide the fact that she had a very small voice, not good enough to do her own singing.
Gene was doing the same thing, but obviously on a much smaller scale. Then came the nightly meetings during which Gene, his assistants Jeanne Coyne (later to become Gene's wife) and Carol Haney, and I began to match the sections of the music with the painters who had been selected. At our very first session we faced our first problem. The painters were to be represented one at a time, so that if we chose a musical theme for Dufy, we should not use it again during the section when the background was by Van Gogh.