Movie buffs, saw two old movies last night:

The first one was called Ball of Fire from 1941 and right after that on this movie channel was a remake from 1948 called 'A Song is Born'.
Basically the same movie, same director, in the first one there was a bunch of college professors and a love interest, in the second, starred Danny Kay but the college professors in this one were musicians and they were studying the history of music and the protaganist sees these two black guys take a tune from Edward Grieg and turn it into a boogie woogie piano riff, so Kay goes to Jazz clubs and the musicians were playing themselves, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Mel Powell, Lionel Hampton on vibes, Benny Goodman plays one of the professors and just wailed on the clarinet, There were some great jam session scenes where these guys who would never have played together were all in the same room playing together. Gene Krupa on drums. A tour de force of Jazz. Amazing movie.

Originally posted by sonhouse
The first one was called Ball of Fire from 1941 and right after that on this movie channel was a remake from 1948 called 'A Song is Born'.
Basically the same movie, same director, in the first one there was a bunch of college professors and a love interest, in the second, starred Danny Kay but the college professors in this one were musicians and they were ...[text shortened]... n the same room playing together. Gene Krupa on drums. A tour de force of Jazz. Amazing movie.

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe" and "Philadelphia Story" are two old classics worth owning.

Can't go wrong with Psycho.

Ditto on Hitchcock: "North By Northwest," "Vertigo," "Notorius," and "Lifeboat," are all worth owning.'

I'm partial to Errol Flynn's "Captain Blood," "The Sea Hawk," and "The Adventures of Robin Hood."

Originally posted by sonhouse
The first one was called Ball of Fire from 1941 and right after that on this movie channel was a remake from 1948 called 'A Song is Born'.
Basically the same movie, same director, in the first one there was a bunch of college professors and a love interest, in the second, starred Danny Kay but the college professors in this one were musicians and they were ...[text shortened]... n the same room playing together. Gene Krupa on drums. A tour de force of Jazz. Amazing movie.