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March 16, 2020

"Street Scene": The Movies That Use Alfred Newman's Theme of the City

Street Scene
 
I Wake Up Screaming
The Dark Corner
Kiss of Death
Gentleman's Agreement
Cry of the City
How to Marry a Millionaire
My Friend Irma
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Listen to it (with Alfred Newman and orchestra, 1946):  here
https://youtu.be/DqjWf7qgoHg 

Or here
for Nic Raine & the City of Prague Philharmonic (rehearsal)

Maybe best of all, the horns and strings on the soundtrack of How to Marry a Millionaire

Directors: Henry Hathaway (2), Otto Preminger, Elia Kazan. Robert Siodmak, Jean Negulesco, Bruce Humberstone, George Marshall, and King Vidor 

Posted by on March 16, 2020 at 09:44 AM in Adventures of Lehman, Feature, Film noir, Movies, Music |

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Comments

It's amazing that it wasn't slipped into "Naked City" (was it?).

Posted by: Ted Chihara | March 23, 2021 at 10:18 PM

I agree, Ted.

Posted by: David Lehman | March 24, 2021 at 08:29 AM

Thank goodness it wasn't.

Posted by: Joseph Ciolino | March 03, 2022 at 08:24 AM

Also in "The Dark Corner".

Posted by: Lou Rugani | May 21, 2022 at 10:09 PM

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