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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