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Blonde (soundtrack)
''Blonde (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)'' is the score album composed and produced by Australian musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. It is the soundtrack to the 2022 biographical film ''Blonde'', directed by Andrew Dominik. The film, which is based on 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, is a fictionalized take on the life and career of American actress Marilyn Monroe, played by Ana de Armas in the lead. The soundtrack album was released by Lakeshore Records and Invada Records on September 28, 2022. Background Both Ellis and Cave, collaborated with Dominik for the fourth time, after scoring for '' The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'' (2007), and himself serving as a documentarian for Cave with the films, ''One More Time With Feeling'' (2016) and '' This Much I Know to Be True'' (2022). In a statement to ''Rolling Stone'', Ellis and Cave has said that "Working with Andrew Dominik is always a challenging, but ultimately mind-blowing ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey, AllMusic, _Biography))).html" ;"title="(((Nick Cave > Biography)))">(((Nick Cave > Biography))) Retrieved 30 September 2009. Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art in Melbourne before fronting the Birthday Party, one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. They relocated to London in 1980. Disillusioned by life there, they evolved towards a darker and more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock and acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". Cave became recognised for his confronta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One More Time With Feeling
''One More Time with Feeling'' is a 2016 British documentary film directed by Andrew Dominik. It documents the recording of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' sixteenth studio album, ''Skeleton Tree'', in the aftermath of the death of Nick Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur. Background Nick Caves 15-year-old son Arthur died after an accidental cliff fall at the Ovingdean Gap in Brighton, England in July 2015. At the time of Arthur's death, Cave was partway through recording sessions for ''Skeleton Tree'', the sixteenth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Synopsis ''One More Time with Feeling'' documents the final production process of ''Skeleton Tree'', in the aftermath of the death of Nick Cave's son Arthur. The film includes 35 minutes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performing at Air Studios in London in early 2016 during the final recording sessions for the album, as well as director Andrew Dominiks interviews with Cave, band member Warren Ellis and Cave's wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol Kaplan
Sol Kaplan (April 19, 1919 – November 14, 1990) was an American film and television music composer. Life and career Kaplan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked as a successful concert pianist, including performing at Carnegie Hall in 1941. That same year he composed his first film score. He went on to write music for dozens of films including the 1953 films ''Titanic'' and '' Niagara''. His film career was disrupted during the 1950s when he landed on the Hollywood Blacklist after being uncooperative in testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. For '' Star Trek'', Kaplan scored two episodes, " The Enemy Within" and " The Doomsday Machine". Jeff Bond noted: "Although he wrote only two scores for the series, New York composer Sol Kaplan's music was tracked frequently throughout the show's first two seasons". Appearance before HUAC Sol Kaplan had scored more than 30 Hollywood films between 1940 and 1953. He was subpoenaed by House Committee on U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runnin' Wild (1922 Song)
"Runnin' Wild" is a popular song first composed and recorded in 1922, written by Arthur Harrington Gibbs with lyrics by Joe Grey and Leo Wood. Notable recordings Further albums and tours (2012–present) * Original Memphis Five, recorded in December 1922 for Regal Records (catalog No. 9407A). * Nora Bayes - recorded for Columbia Records (catalog No. A3826) on January 11, 1923. * Ted Lewis - a popular recording in 1922. *Django Reinhardt Quintette - a gypsy swing version in 1937 * Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, recorded October 17, 1930 for Brunswick Records (catalog No. E34927). *Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, recorded on May 29, 1935 for Decca Records (catalog No. 503B). * Benny Goodman Quartet, recorded February 5, 1937 for Victor Records (25529A). * Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (1939). *Ted Weems and His Orchestra, recorded for Decca Records (3135A) on October 4, 1939. *Teddy Wilson Quintet, recorded January 15, 1945 for Musicraft Records (catalog No. 319). *The Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a jazz song introduced by Carol Channing in the original Broadway production of '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' (1949), with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Leo Robin. Marilyn Monroe version American actress and singer Marilyn Monroe performed the song in the 1953 film '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes''. Monroe's character, Lorelei Lee, has been followed on a transatlantic ocean liner by a detective hired by her fiancé's father, who wants assurance that she is not marrying purely for money. He is informed of compromising pictures taken with a British diamond mine owner and cancels her letter of credit before she arrives in France, requiring her to work in a nightclub to survive. Her fiancé arrives at the cabaret to see her perform this song, about exploiting men for riches. Diamonds are an element in another story line in the film, in which Lorelei is given a diamond tiara by the mine owner, in gratitude for her recovering the photographs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)
''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling 1925 novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub. The musical opened on Broadway in 1949 (running for 740 performances and introducing Carol Channing), a London production was mounted in 1962, and there was a Broadway revival in 1995. It was made into a 1953 film of the same name, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. The popular songs " Bye Bye Baby" and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" were introduced in this musical. An adaptation called ''Lorelei'' (also starring Carol Channing) was performed on Broadway in 1974. Synopsis ;Act I In the 1920s, Lorelei Lee, a blonde from Little Rock, Arkansas, and her friend Dorothy Shaw board the ocean liner ''Ile de France'', to embark for France ("It's High Time"). Lorelei and her boyfriend, Gus Esmond, are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss (Dean Martin Song)
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". Martin gained his career breakthrough together with comedian Jerry Lewis, billed as Martin and Lewis, in 1946. They performed in nightclubs and later had numerous appearances on radio, television and in films. Following an acrimonious ending of the partnership in 1956, Martin pursued a solo career as a performer and actor. Martin established himself as a singer, recording numerous contemporary songs as well as standards from the Great American Songbook. He became one of the most popular acts in Las Vegas and was known for his friendship with fellow artists Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., who together with several others formed the Rat Pack. Starting in 1965, Martin was the host of the television variety program '' The Dean Martin Show'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Like It Hot
''Some Like It Hot'' is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film ''Fanfare of Love''. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime. ''Some Like It Hot'' opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 Film)
''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' is a 1953 American musical comedy film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles. The film is filled with comedic situations and musical numbers, choreographed by Jack Cole, while the music was written by Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Adamson, Jule Styne and Leo Robin. The songs by Styne and Robin are from the Broadway show, while the songs by Carmichael and Adamson were written especially for the film. Despite the film's title, Monroe was paid her usual contract salary of $500 a week, while Russell, the better known actress at the time, earned $200,000. While Russell's down-to-earth, sharp wit has been observed by most critics, it was Monroe's turn as the gold-digging Lorelei Lee for which the film is often remembered. Monroe's rendition of the song "Diamo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niagara (1953 Film)
''Niagara'' is a 1953 American film-noir thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway, produced by Charles Brackett, and written by Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch. The film stars Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Max Showalter (credited as Casey Adams). It was one of 20th Century Fox's biggest box-office hits that year. Unlike other films noir of the time, which were typically black-and-white, ''Niagara'' was filmed in "three-strip" Technicolor ( one of the last films to be made at Fox in that format, as a few months later Fox began converting to CinemaScope, which had compatibility problems with three-strip but not with Eastmancolor). Monroe was given top billing in ''Niagara'', which elevated her to star status. Her next two films, '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' (1953) and ''How to Marry a Millionaire'' (1953), were even bigger successes. Plot Ray and Polly Cutler, on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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