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In Variety, December 6, 1932: an ad for Take a Chance, starring Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, and Jack Whiting.
from Tom Samuels on Broadway Remembered, Facebook
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So I looked it up, because of course the Holmes books aren't alone to enter the public domain this year, and Metropolis has too. So here's the list I found of creative works that are now public domain:
Books
— The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury (original publication)
— Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
— The Big Four, by Agatha Christie
— The Tower Treasure, the first Hardy Boys mystery by the pseudonymous Franklin W. Dixon
— The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
— Copper Sun, by Countee Cullen
— Mosquitoes, by William Faulkner
— Men Without Women, by Ernest Hemingway
— Der Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse (in German)
— Amerika, by Franz Kafka (in German)
— Now We Are Six, by A.A. Milne with illustrations from E.H. Shepard
— Le Temps retrouvé, by Marcel Proust (in French)
— Twilight Sleep, by Edith Wharton
— The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
— To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Movies
— "7th Heaven," directed by Frank Borzage
— "The Battle of the Century," a Laurel and Hardy film directed by Clyde Bruckman
— "The Kid Brother," directed by Ted Wilde
— "The Jazz Singer," directed by Alan Crosland
— "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog," directed by Alfred Hitchcock
— "Metropolis," directed by Fritz Lang
— "Sunrise," directed by F.W. Murnau
— "Upstream," directed by John Ford
— "Wings," directed by William A. Wellman
Musical compositions
— "Back Water Blues," "Preaching the Blues" and "Foolish Man Blues" (Bessie Smith)
— "The Best Things in Life Are Free," from the musical "Good News" (George Gard "Buddy" De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)
— "Billy Goat Stomp," "Hyena Stomp" and "Jungle Blues" (Ferdinand Joseph Morton)
— "Black and Tan Fantasy" and "East St. Louis Toodle-O" (Bub Miley, Duke Ellington)
— "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Ol' Man River," from the musical "Show Boat" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
— "Diane" (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack)
— "Funny Face" and "'S Wonderful," from the musical "Funny Face" (Ira and George Gershwin)
— "(I Scream You Scream, We All Scream for) Ice Cream" (Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, Robert A. King)
— "Mississippi Mud" (Harry Barris, James Cavanaugh)
— "My Blue Heaven" (George Whiting, Walter Donaldson)
— "Potato Head Blues" and "Gully Low Blues" (Louis Armstrong)
— "Puttin' on the Ritz" (Irving Berlin)
— "Rusty Pail Blues," "Sloppy Water Blues" and "Soothin' Syrup Stomp" (Thomas Waller)
Source: https://www.voanews.com/a/public-domain-debuts-include-last-sherlock-holmes-work-/6898309.html
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Lew Brown, Belatedly
I don’t know how such things happen, but somehow I managed to do posts on Ray Henderson and Buddy De Sylva a decade ago, but their songwriting partner Lew Brown (Louis Brownstein, 1893-1958) done fell through the cracks.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Brown moved to New York when he was five. He was a lyricist; how impressive that English was his second language! He began co-writing songs for Tin Pan…
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"If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May."
Buddy de Sylva
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The Best Things in Life Are Free *** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North) - Classic Movie Review 9913
The Best Things in Life Are Free *** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9913
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths Buddy De Sylva, Ray Henderson and Lew Brown, composers of ‘Sonny Boy’ for Al Jolson (played here by Norman Brooks).
Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey and Ernest Borgnine are supposed…
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