DVD Talk review of 'With a Song in My Heart - The Jane Froman Story'
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DVD Talk review of 'With a Song in My Heart - The Jane Froman Story'
I read DVD Savant's DVD review of With a Song in My Heart - The Jane Froman Story at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=31435 and...
"the Jane Froman story" was not a new thing for the DVD. "The Jane Froman Story" was the working title of the movie until "With a Song In My Heart" was selected as the title. All the
posters in movie theaters in 1952 said "With A Song In My Heart" with "The Jane Froman Story" under the title. The piano/vocal sheet music of songs from the movie also had covers issued for
a number of years that read "With A Song In My Heart" followed by "The Jane Froman Story". Several years later, "The Jane Froman Story" was dropped from sheet music covers. I believe that Fox was trying go back to the original movie theater environment of the year that the movie was released, when Jane Froman was such a popular star, and when the upcoming "Jane Froman Story" had been discussed in the media for such a long time.
This movie, which goes from the 1930's up to only 1945, is probably the most accurate of the Hollywood biographies of the time period. (Think of all the fictitious scenes and altered characters that were added in the Eddy Duchin Story.)The nurse "Clancy" is a composite figure representing the many helpers that Jane had to employ when she was ill, but most of the rest of the story is true. Yes, Jane did get a shell-shocked solder to speak. Yes, a group of soldiers did go AWOL to follow Jane around in her USO shows. Yes, her first husband, Don Ross, was not a very nice fellow. And yes, her second husband, John Burn, although sustaining severe back injuries, was able to hold Jane up in the water for hours until rescue came. The best part of the movie is Jane's voice, and the musical arrangements are the most exciting of any she used in the course of her career. Vocally, she has never had an equal in the American popular music scene.
"the Jane Froman story" was not a new thing for the DVD. "The Jane Froman Story" was the working title of the movie until "With a Song In My Heart" was selected as the title. All the
posters in movie theaters in 1952 said "With A Song In My Heart" with "The Jane Froman Story" under the title. The piano/vocal sheet music of songs from the movie also had covers issued for
a number of years that read "With A Song In My Heart" followed by "The Jane Froman Story". Several years later, "The Jane Froman Story" was dropped from sheet music covers. I believe that Fox was trying go back to the original movie theater environment of the year that the movie was released, when Jane Froman was such a popular star, and when the upcoming "Jane Froman Story" had been discussed in the media for such a long time.
This movie, which goes from the 1930's up to only 1945, is probably the most accurate of the Hollywood biographies of the time period. (Think of all the fictitious scenes and altered characters that were added in the Eddy Duchin Story.)The nurse "Clancy" is a composite figure representing the many helpers that Jane had to employ when she was ill, but most of the rest of the story is true. Yes, Jane did get a shell-shocked solder to speak. Yes, a group of soldiers did go AWOL to follow Jane around in her USO shows. Yes, her first husband, Don Ross, was not a very nice fellow. And yes, her second husband, John Burn, although sustaining severe back injuries, was able to hold Jane up in the water for hours until rescue came. The best part of the movie is Jane's voice, and the musical arrangements are the most exciting of any she used in the course of her career. Vocally, she has never had an equal in the American popular music scene.
