A Song Is Born

Where else can you see a jam session with Louie Armstrong on trumpet, Charlie Barnet on saxophone, Benny Goodman on clarinet, and Tommy Dorsey on trombone? Four major swing band leaders jamming out, and they do it more than once on... Full review

Howard Hawks remake of his 1941 comedy "Ball of Fire" was a vehicle for Danny Kaye, who was popular at the time. This film is based on a story by Billy Wilder and Thomas Monroe, which had also been the basis... Full review

"A Song is Born" was made in 1948. This was a remake of 1941's "Ball of Fire" with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. A group of dull music professors are studying the history of music. Two window cleaners urge Danny Kaye,... Full review

While there is a decent plot and Danny Kaye does a good job, the best parts are the music scenes with Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and many others. It is a great collection of popular artists of... Full review

I'm truly dating myself but back in the swing days there was a bandleader named Sammy Kaye who used that as his band's slogan. Otherwise my title would have been the tag line for this film. It was only seven years... Full review

This is a movie for anyone who loves music, not only is it a great comically entertaining film, it draws you into the world of jazz at its contemporary beginning, This movie does for jazz what "Amadeus" (1984) did for Mozart... Full review

This is an incrediable movie full laughs and wit and humor that never stops!It's Danny Kaye at his best with some of the most incrediable musicians of our time alongside! A must see for the whole family!... Full review

This movie (a remake of 1941's "Ball of Fire") is an entertaining movie. But if you like swing or JAZZ, you have got to see this! Most Danny Kaye movies have good musical scores, but this one has Benny Goodman, Louis... Full review

In the film's best scenes....It's not one of Danny Kaye's better films for Goldwyn....Video & Audio As with the concurrently-released three-strip Technicolor The Goldwyn Follies and It's a Pleasure , A Song Is Born has been almost flawlessly transferred.....Cooper and Stanwyck are infinitely more memorable than Kaye and Mayo for several reasons.....in one funny scene a clarinetist is needed.... ... Full Review

It will be recalled that the original film, co-scripted by Billy Wilder, was an amusing spin on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," wherein seven pedantic professors, working on a dictionary of slang, "adopted" an authority on the subject, breezy burlesque dancer Sugarpuss O'Shea. ... Full Review

Seven years after making "Ball of Fire," with Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, director Howard Hawks revisited the same material in a musical, with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. ... Full Article

Louie Bellson, a jazz drummer, composer and bandleader who mixed outstanding instrumental skills with impressive compositional virtuosity, passed away on Saturday at the age of 84. ... Full Article

A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire , with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director ( Howard Hawks ) at the helm. ... Full Article