Mi sposo... e torno!

Mi sposo... e torno! (1930)

Reaching for the Moon

Day, prestigioso manager, diserta i suoi affari per seguire in Europa Vivien, ricca ereditiera della quale si è innamorato. Durante la traversata, mentre sta per manifestare il suo amore, apprende via radio che la sua impresa è fallita. Rinuncia alla dichiarazione, ma Vivien non rinuncia a lui.

Data di uscita
1930-12-29
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (14)
Durata
1 h 30 min
Generi
Commedia, Musica, Romance
Regista
Edmund Goulding

Cast

Curiosità

Reaching for the Moon is a 1930 American pre-Code black and white musical film. Originally released at 91 minutes; surviving versions are usually cut to 62 minutes. A 74-minute version aired in 1998 on AMC. The DVD version runs just under 72 minutes. The film's working title was Lucky Break and is known as Para alcanzar la Luna in Spain. It is not to be confused with the 1917 Fairbanks silent film Reaching for the Moon.

Background

The film was originally intended to be a musical with songs written by Irving Berlin but problems soon developed. From the start, Berlin found Edmund Goulding, the director, difficult to work with. Also by mid-1930 the studio realized that the public's demand for musicals had disappeared. So Goulding jettisoned many of Berlin's songs from the score.

The one song that was retained was "When the Folks High Up Do the Mean Low Down" introduced by Bing Crosby who had filmed it late at night after completing his work at the Cocoanut Grove.

Variety commented on this song specifically, saying: "None of the Berlin songs is left other than a chorus of hot numbers apparently named "Lower Than Lowdown" [sic]. Tune suddenly breaks into the running in the ship's bar when Bing Crosby, of the Whiteman Rhythm Boys, gives it a strong start for just a chorus which, in turn, is ably picked up by Miss Daniels, also for merely a chorus, and then in an exterior shot to the deck where June MacCloy s…

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