Friday, May 3, 2013

"TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE" - OPENING TITLES

Here's a film that I watched on television way back in the day; 1963's Take Her, She's Mine, an all-but-forgotten 20th Century Fox production starring James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, (my man) Robert Morley, (my main man) Bob Denver, and Philippe Forquet.

Posting yesterday about the late great film composer Jerry Goldsmith got me thinking about the man's early motion picture career, and something made me remember his happy feel-good score for Take Her, She's Mine. Here are the opening titles; those who know their scores and composers might think, while listening to the theme music, that Frank De Vol (billed simply as "De Vol" when listed on credits as a composer) was the music man for this film since Goldsmith wrote in the style of "Happy"... I mean, De Vol.

Trivia Time: The screenplay was written by triple-threat-guy Nunnally Johnson, who adapted the play which was written by husband and wife team Henry and Phoebe Ephron, parents of filmmaker Nora Ephron. Also, Goldsmith, who enjoyed a richly creative few years while under contract at Fox, made his 'premiere' there with the Take Her score...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asqrtp9CvOY

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