So great to see the Class of Miklos Rozsa accepting his Oscar for BEN-HUR and I guess Andre Previn was in the pit conducting the Academy Awards Orchestra as he jumps up from there and someone else took over to conduct as he accepted his Oscar.
He also pronounces Franz Waxman's name in the (I think correct) German way!
Hey zooba, what's all this bumping of your own threads from 2014? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but is it some kind of project for you today?
He also pronounces Franz Waxman's name in the (I think correct) German way!
Hey zooba, what's all this bumping of your own threads from 2014? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but is it some kind of project for you today?
Hi Graham,
I couldn't sleep last night, so I kind of stayed up and started looking back at old threads. I guess I went a little crazy and saw that many of the threads didn't have that many responses and I was just curious to see how a lot of the FSM'ers who might not have seen them the first time around, thought about the subjects and such. I think I just got a little carried away after a while. They'll probably all disappear again pretty quickly if no one is interested.
Kelly was a renowned Francophile. In the absence of any Frenchmen or women to honor, he was likely determined to pronounce any and all foreign names correctly.
But Kelly was also a denizen of MGM’s music department, working with it closely to shape the scores of the musicals in which he appeared and/or directed, and surely got to know Rozsa even though the latter obviously had no connection to the studio’s musicals (though the two men shared an enormous respect for the studio’s gifted orchestrator Conrad Salinger). I think that Rozsa also saw Kelly’s Francophilia as a character virtue.
Kelly was a renowned Francophile. In the absence of any Frenchmen or women to honor, he was likely determined to pronounce any and all foreign names correctly...
Yes, Gene Kelly had better French pronounciation than most US people I've heard. Let's also not forget his role in Demy's LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT -- although he mostly speaks English in that, if memory serves.
Yes, Gene Kelly had better French pronounciation than most US people I've heard. Let's also not forget his role in Demy's LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT -- although he mostly speaks English in that, if memory serves.
Ah, yes! Demy, Kelly, the tragically departed Françoise Dorléac and Michel Legrand's music - can it get any better than this?
