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Mario Lanza You Do Something To Me
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Voice and photos of the great Mario Lanza with master paintings are joined together to create a lovely combination. • • The beginning photo of Mario Lanza was taken from The Great Caruso the rest of the photos of him were taken from his film That Midnight Kiss . Both are available for purchase from Turner Classic Movies. • • Following is some interesting information about Cole Porter who wrote You Do Something to Me for his last Broadway show, Fifty Million Frenchmen, in 1929. The show received mixed notices. One critic wrote, 'the lyrics alone are enough to drive anyone but P.G. Wodehouse into retirement', but others dismissed the songs as 'pleasant' and 'not an outstanding hit song in the show'. As it was a lavish and expensive production, nothing less than full houses would suffice, and after only three weeks the producers announced that they would close it. Irving Berlin, who was an admirer and champion of Porter, took out a paid press advertisement calling the show 'The best musical comedy I've heard in years. ... One of the best collections of song numbers I have ever listened to . This saved the show, which ran for 254 performances, considered a successful run at the time.' • Some more information about Porter: • In 1917, the year in which the U.S. entered World War I, Porter moved to Paris. He distributed relief supplies for three months, but the extent of his other war work is unclear. Some writers have been skeptical about Porter's claim to have served in the French Foreign Legion, although the Legion itself lists Porter as one of its soldiers and displays his portrait at its museum in Aubagne. By some accounts, he served in North Africa and was transferred to the French Officers School at Fontainebleau, teaching gunnery to American soldiers. An obituary notice in The New York Times said that, while in the Legion, 'he had a specially constructed portable piano made for him so that he could carry it on his back and entertain the troops in their bivouacs.' • Porter had a ...taste for extravagant luxury. The Porter home on the rue Monsieur near Les Invalides was a palatial house with platinum wallpaper and chairs upholstered in zebra skin. In 1923, Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, and he began renting Venetian palaces. He once hired the entire Ballets Russes to entertain his house guests, and for a party at Ca' Rezzonico, which he rented for $4,000 a month ($51,000 in current value), he hired 50 gondoliers to act as footmen and had a troupe of tight-rope walkers perform in a blaze of lights. • (The above quotes were taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Por.... • • The following is a listing of artists and their paintings in order of their appearance in the video: • 1) François Boucher - Cupid's Target, from 'Les Amours des Dieux', 1758 • 2) Martin Johnson Heade (American 1819-1904) - Victorian Vase with Flowers of Devotion, circa 1871-1880 • 3) Pierre Jan van der Ouderra - The Wedding Present, 1874 • 4) François Boucher - Pastoral Scene, or Young Shepherd in a Landscape • 5) Edmund Blair-Leighton [English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1853-1922] -- Courtship • 6) Delphin Enjolras (1857 -- 1945), French academic painter (woman reading a letter) • 7) Emile Vernon --Fair as the morning • 8) Vittorio Reggianini - A Young Beauty • 9) Félix Augustin Milius - The courting couple • 10) Federico Andreotti - Courting Couple • 11) James Joseph Jacques Tissot (1836-1902) -- The Farewell, 1871 • 12) Franz Xaver Simm - In the Theatre Box • 13) Edmund Blair-Leighton -- A Stolen Interview • 14) Edmund Blair-Leighton -- Adieu • 15) Eugen Von Blaas - Austrian - Flirtation 1887 • 16) Vittorio Reggianini - Interior with Elegant Figures • 17) Emile Vernon - A Summer Reverie
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