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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.
:34:04
The vogue continued in American films
such as The Uninvited,
:34:08
where Ray Milland is a musician who
plays a Victor Young-written piano work
:34:14
which found popularity
as the hit tune "Stella by Starlight".
:34:17
The vogue peaked in 1945 in
Spellbound and The Enchanted Cottage.
:34:21
Both featured full-blown piano concertos
that achieved great popular currency.
:34:26
1945 also saw A Song to Remember
hit the box-office charts.
:34:31
For reasons unknown, the concerto
for piano and orchestra in Phantom
:34:35
never received
any commercial popularity.
:34:37
The song "Lullaby of the Bells"
didn't have any commercial recordings.
:34:43
It wasn't until 1948,
when the picture was reissued,
:34:46
that Mantovani and his orchestra
recorded a two-sided 78 record,
:34:50
for London Records, of the concerto,
with a studio orchestra and piano.
:34:56
January 20th script changes
on Phantom included a scene
:34:59
that would have followed
this exchange,