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Song of Songs with Marlene Dietrich,
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and the original Fredric March
talking version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Hoffenstein's script
for the 1931 Paramount film
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was the backbone
of the 1941 Spencer Tracy remake.
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MGM actually bought
the film outright in perpetuity.
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Hoffenstein also worked with Julien
Duvivier on Tales of Manhattan, Lydia
:32:23
and Flesh and Fantasy. He also
would write Laura for Otto Preminger.
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An early credit of his was the Paramount
version of An American Tragedy,
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which had been started
by Sergei Eisenstein
:32:34
but finally made
by Josef von Sternberg.
:32:38
The 1940s saw a vogue
in gaslight horrors.
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All through World War Il,
this recherché period
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provided a nice escape valve
for wartime audiences.
:32:48
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
seemed to start the cycle in 1941,
:32:52
followed by Phantom, The Lodger,
The Man in Half Moon Street,
:32:55
The Picture of Dorian Gray,
Hangover Square,
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two versions of Gaslight -
British and American.
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Even the poverty row studios
followed suit
:33:03
with The Catman of Paris and Bluebeard.
:33:06
There was also a vogue, started in
the mid- To late-'30s, for operas on film.
:33:11
There was Metropolitan
with Lawrence Tibbett,
:33:13
I Dream Too Much with Lily Pons.
:33:16
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
were a team in one hit after another:
:33:20
Sweethearts, Naughty Marietta, Maytime.
:33:23
There were also popular-culture concerns
mixed into Phantom.
:33:26
During the war
there was a vogue for pop songs
:33:29
derived from classical music
of the Romantic era,
:33:32
with Tchaikovsky being particularly
mined for pop songs "Tonight We Love"
:33:36
and "Full Moon And Empty Arms",
drawn from his symphonic works.
:33:40
In movies, the British picture
Dangerous Moonlight
:33:44
created a vogue for piano concertos.
:33:46
Its "Warsaw Concerto"
became very popular,
:33:49
and soon it was followed by "Cornish
Rhapsody" in the British film Love Story
:33:53
from producer Leslie Arliss.
:33:55
Arliss also produced a horror thriller
with James Mason, The Night Has Eyes,
:33:59
in which James Mason's shell-shocked
pianist has also written a piano concerto.