The evening viewing.
In Five Came Back, the fine doco series about
five American film directors and their work during WW2, its revealed that
George Stevens was never the same man after his service. He tried to return to
making light comedies but couldn't do it. What he had seen in the war rested
too heavily on him. By chance the pile of DVDs to watch came up with La
Donna Vivace, an Italian edition of the 1938 Vivacious Lady, acquired at Florence's wondrous DVD store Alberti Dischi near San
Lorenzo.
James Stewart and Ginger Rogers have a whirlwind romance and marry the
night they meet. Stewart's father (Charles Coburn) doesn't approve of her
at first sight and his fiancee is even less impressed. It all works out in the
end of course.
What attracts Stewart to Rogers is her appearance in a night club when
she sings this rather fine song. The sequence has been posted on YouTube
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