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What's the origin of the phrase 'High, wide and handsome'? This is about as bona fide American as a phrase can get. It is often used to conjure up images of the openness and freedom of the plains and mountains of rural USA, or of the horses and cowboys that roamed them.
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In 1859, Doc Watterson brings his traveling medicine show to Titusville, Pennsylvania. After the show wagon is destroyed by an accidental fire, Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson Peter invite the Wattersons and the show's fake Indian, Mac, to stay with them. Peter and Sally fall in love. Railroad tycoon Walt Brennan wants to acquire the land of severa...
Irene Dunne had starred in the previous year's film adaptation of Kern and Hammerstein's classic musical Show Boat, and the character of Doc is similar to the Cap'n Andy character from the earlier film.[citation needed] Dorothy Lamour sings a torch song in High, Wide and Handsome, as did Helen Morgan in the Show Boatadaptation.
The film includes the classic Kern-Hammerstein songs "Can I Forget You?" and "The Folks Who Live on the Hill". With the assistance of Kern and Hammerstein, director Rouben Mamoulianattempted to firmly integrate the songs into the plot of the film in order to advance the storyline.
Frank S. Nugent of The New York Timeswrote: "A richly produced, spectacular and melodious show, it moves easily into the ranks of the season's best and probably is as good an all-around entertainment as we are likely to find on Broadway this summer." Variety reported that the film had "too much Hollywood hokum" and that it "flounders as it progress...
Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN 0-634-00765-3pages 70–71
High, Wide and Handsome at IMDbHigh, Wide and Handsome at the American Film Institute CatalogHigh, Wide and Handsome at AllMovieHigh, Wide and Handsome at the TCM Movie Database6 de set. de 2023 · High, Wide and Handsome (1937) Original Trailer [HD] Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott and Dorothy Lamour.Blu-ray (Kino Lorber)...
High, Wide and Handsome: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Patterson. Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brennan (Alan Hale) is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland (Randolph Scott).
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19 de out. de 2020 · High, Wide, and Handsome is a 1937 film musical starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Alan Hale Sr, Charles Bickford, and Dorothy Lamour. The movie was directed by my old boss, Rouben Mamoulian...
High, Wide and Handsome é um filme norte-americano de 1937, do gênero musical, dirigido por Rouben Mamoulian e estrelado por Irene Dunne e Randolph Scott.
High, Wide, and Handsome (1937) is a big production from Paramount with Rouben Mamoulian in the directors chair. Tells the story of a oil strike on farm land that gets strangled by greedy business men that wants in on it.
