Gotta sing Gotta dance : A pictorial history of film musicals
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited
[1970]
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| Item Description: | Movies learned to sing and dance even before they learned to talk. For years before the arrival of sound, Joan Crawford and other flappers had been dancing the Charleston on the silent screen. Then musical soundtracks were adopted, providing the first 'sounds' of sound films. Later still, and some say by accident, came the talkies. It is said that Al Jolson, while doing the song recording for The Jazz Singer, cried out in a burst of enthuisam 'You ain't heard nothing yet, folks! Listen to this!' And talking pictures were born. -- Description from dust jacket flap. |
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| Physical Description: | 320 pages: illustraitons ; 31 cm 519 p. grab. 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 0600031268 978-0600031260 9780600031260 |
