Type: FeaturesDistributor: Warner BrothersRating: NRRunning Time: 114 Minutes
This is the one of “Hard to find Movies”. Yes, it’s “Dear Heart” in 1964. I wonder if other people were interested in “Dear in their hearts”, like me. While trying to find such a thing, I found Chimale1025 wrote about it. Here it is:
“ A Movie for Middle Aged Romantics, 8 March 2004Author: Chimale1025 from Plano, Texas
This is a film about two middle aged people in search of their soul mates. It is a very adult film. Children under 35 usually don't find it very rewarding unless they possess an unusual emotional maturity. I loved it the first time I saw it when I was about 22, but I didn't understand its depths until I was about 38. It shows the despair of lonely singles. It shows the "innocence" of the never attached. A spinster (what an ageist and sexist term) and a not too old jaded and bored bachelor try to make relationships which don't really fit work for them. The efforts they go through and the situations they find themselves in make for a lovely and sweet ride. The resolution is extremely gratifying and not so unrealistic. Its tone, mood and pacing as the two meet and learn about each other build beautifully. I don't want a remake, but I miss movies of this maturity, thought and charm. No glamour, no glitz, no silly gags, no pretty young things, this film shows ordinary people with ordinary problems trying to find someone to love in a world that isn't always kind to people past their "prime". Geraldine Page is revelatory as the slightly ridiculous woman who grows more lovely as the story progresses. Glenn Ford's charms are used to their maximum effect and Angela Landsbury adds the right shrewish tone. This is a must see for people who love a good complicated normal romance. “
Oh! Great! Thank you so much Chimale1025
Besides those, the song “Dear Heart” will never die from my heart. This song is always one of the great songs of Henry Mancini. Although Johnny Mercer didn’t give us his “Great” lyrics like Days of Wine and Roses and Moon River, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston did their best. Here you are!
Dear Heart
Words & Music by Ray Evans & Jay LivingstonRecorded by Rec. by Andy Williams, 1964 (#24) (also by Henry Mancini, #77)
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Dear heart wish you were here
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To warm this night;
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My dear heart, seems like a year
C G F Fm C
Since you've been out of my sight.
F Fm C C/B Am
A single room, a table for one --
F Cdim Dm7 G7
It's a lonesome town all right.
G+ C C/B C7 F
But soon I'll kiss you hello
C Am7 Dm7 G7
At our front door;
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And dear heart I want you to know,
C Am7 Dm7 G7 F Dm7-5 C
I'll leave your arms never more.
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