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Nothing to say more about this film. The world has known it too well for years.
But, surprisingly, this great film that was shot for a cost of $2.5 million (about $.5 million over-budget), was basically ignored by film critics when released and treated with indifference (with box-office of $7.7 worldwide). It received only two Academy Award nominations - Best Supporting Actress (Jean Hagen), and Best Musical Score (Lennie Hayton) and didn't win any awards. The film's musical score Oscar nomination lost to Alfred Newman's score for With a Song in My Heart.
Who cares about that? There's another beautiful song in this film. Though widely known for its inclusion in this landmark movie, this song has its roots in another movie made more than 20 years earlier; it was one of the top hits of the the 1929 movie "The Broadway Melody." The main reason for its reappearance is "co-writer Arthur Freed later became head of the musical section of MGM studios and recycled many of his own earlier hits." All were great tunes.
You Were Meant For Me
Words & Music by Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown
Recorded by Gene Kelly, 1952
From the movie "Singin' In The Rain"
Em7 A7 G/B A7/9 D D6 B7
You were meant for me,
Em7 A7 G/B A7/9 D D6 Cdim
And I was meant for you.
B7 F#7 D9 D6 Bm7-5 E7
Na - ture patterned you, and when she was done,
Em7 A7 G/B A7
You were all the sweet things
Bm7-5 Cdim A7
Rolled up in one.
Em7 G/B A7 Em7 A7 G/B A7/9 D D6 B7
You're like a plain - tive mel - o - dy
Cdim Em7 A7 G/B A7/9 F#7
That nev - er lets me free,
Cdim B7
For I'm content -- the
Em7 Bm7-5 Edim Cdim Em7 Cdim
An - gels must have sent you and they
Em7 A7 G/B Gdim D Fdim Em7 A7+5
Meant you just for me.
Have you ever heard????
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It's an ordinary thing for anyone to say that "This is very easily one of my Disney animated films ever made because it is such a delightful adaptation of the classic fairy tale. The characters are a lot of fun to watch and the story was handled excellently. The songs in the movie are also very good to listen to and fit perfectly into the movie."
Right! Disney's films always provide the best thing for one's heart. On top of that, we can always hear at least one sweet song from such a film.
Cinderella has always given us this sweet and deep meaning song.
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Words & Music by Mack David & Jerry Livingston
Uncredited, from the Walt Disney movie "Cinderella," 1950
G Cdim G9 G
A dream is a wish your heart makes
G B7 C C/B E7
When you're fast asleep;
Am Fdim Am Am+7
In dreams you will lose your heartaches,
D7 Am7 G D+
Whatever you wish for, you keep.
G Cdim G9 G
Have faith in your dreams, and someday
G B7 C C/B
Your rainbow will come smiling through;
Am7 F7
No matter how your heart is grieving,
G Bm7-5 E7
If you keep on believing,
Gdim D7 Am7 D9 G
The dreams that you wish will come true.
Produced by Charles Chaplin and Jerome Epstein
Written by Charles Chaplin
Music by Charles Chaplin
Stars :
Marlon Brando ........ Odgen Mears
Sophia Loren .......... Natascha
Sydney Earle Chaplin ............. Harvey
Tippi Hedren ........... Martha
Patrick Cargill .......... Hudson
Michael Medwin....... John Felix
John Paul ................ Captain
Margaret Rutherford ................. Miss Gaulswallow
Angela Scoular ....... Society girl
Geraldine Chaplin ............Girl at dance
Charles Chaplin......... An old stewar
A Countess from Hong Kong was a 1967 comedy film and the last film directed by Charles Chaplin. It was one of only two films Chaplin directed in which he did not play a major role
(the other was 1923's A Woman of Paris), and his only color film. The film was a financial and critical failure.
Marlon Brando plays a wealthy American diplomat aboard a cruise ship which docks in Hong Kong. A countess (Sophia Loren) comes aboard and smuggles herself in Brando's
closet. Brando spends the rest of the film trying to hide her and avoid the press; almost the entire 2-hour film takes place in his majestic stateroom.
Chaplin directs with his usual grace, favoring long shots and comedy at a distance. He also provided the sweet, sentimental score and appears in a small cameo as a seasick
steward.
Tippi Hedren co-stars as Brando's almost-divorced wife, and a young, adorable Geraldine Chaplin has one line in a ballroom scene.
Brando reportedly did not get along with Chaplin, and most critics used that as fodder for panning the film, though the conflict does not show in the final product. Most of all, A Countess from Hong Kong caused a lot of trouble for auteur critics in 1967.They didn't want to pan Chaplin's final film, but they also couldn't say it was any good.
Words & Music by Charlie Chaplin
Recorded by Petula Clark, 1967 (#3)
INTRO VERSE
C Am Cdim CM7/6
Why is my heart so light?
C Cdim Dm7 G7
Why are the stars so bright?
G7 Dm7 Cdim Dm7 G7
Why is the sky so blue
Cdim Dm7 Cdim C G
Since the hour I met you?
C Am Cdim CM7/6
Flowers are smi - ling bright
C Cdim Dm7 G7
Smiling for our delight
G7 Dm7 Cdim Dm7 G7
Smiling so ten - der - ly
Cdim Dm7 Cdim C G
For the world, you and me
BRIDGE
C Cdim Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 Cdim C
I know why the world is smiling, smiling so ten - der - ly
A A7 Dm Dm+7 D D7 G7
It hears the same old story through all e - ter - ni - ty
MELODY
C CM7 C C9 CM7
Love, this is my song
CM7/6 CM7 C CM7/6 Cdim Dm7 G7
Here is a song, a ser - e - nade to you
G7 Cdim G7
The world can - not be wrong
Bm7-5 G7 Fdim C
If in this world there is you
C9 Am Em7 F
I care not what the world may say;
G7 Cdim G7 Fdim C
With - out your love there is no day.
G C CM7 C C9 CM7
So, Love, this is my song,
CM7/6 CM7 C CM7/6 Cdim Dm7 G7 C
Here is a song, a ser - e - nade to you.
You’ve been sitting all night, watching the sky and finally found something. Then the dawn comes and such “something” is clear in your mind.
It’s clear because you’re going forth across the doorsill where the night world touches the day world.
The light and breeze at dawn have secrets to tell you. Such secrets can help release your mind. That’s why something is clear.
You may ask the dawn for what you really want.
Someone you still love or someone new.
But....believe me, all you want are in your memories.