[78-L] Music in Jean Harlow film

[Thomas Stern]

try Miles Krueger, Institute of the American Musical.

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Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
> Forsberg, Chris wrote:
>
>> Back in Dec, I inquired whether anyone here happened to know the name of
the band/singer featured in the nightclub sequence in a 1932 Jean Harlow
film, "Red Headed Woman" and if the song (probably of the same name) existed
on 78. No one did -- but Stephen Davies and Harold Aherne did have some good
suggestions....Stephen said that it was probably a generic "studio band" and
anonymous singer, and that the MGM studio records would have the answers.
Then, Harold offered that those records were at Univ South Carolina, and
posted the URL (http://www.usc.edu/libraries/collections/performing_arts/),
and I followed it, and emailed someone there. I got back an answer that all
they could find was a table of sorts showing the 3 songs in the film, the
title of the songs (which I already knew), and the composer/arranger (which
I already knew). There was a column called "ORCH", with "Maxwell" written in
for each of the three different songs. There was also columns for "TAKE
NO.", "PERFO
 R
>>
>  ME
>
>>  D BY", "DATE" and "TIME"....but of course, all 4 of those were
blank....grrrr!! He sent me a scanned PDF of this antique production chart,
but it didn't help much...
>>
>> So, the only new info gleaned was this "Maxwell"....I wrote back and
asked if there was any way to find out the names of the band or singer...and
who "Maxwell" was, and he said that he can't find the name of the singer or
the band in the film, and that their MGM Collection consisted primarily of
scripts.....and what I really need is the "production information for the
film to answer these questions." (I had assumed that USC was the place that
had that in the first place). He said that "unfortunately we don't have that
here and I don't know where to look (!)." (so which is it -- you don't have
it, or you don't know where to look?!?)
>>
>>
>>
>> He did clear up the Maxwell thing though -- he said it was the name of
the man who did the orchestrating of the songs for the film (I had thought
it might have been the name of the orchestra). He said he didn't know his
first name.
>>
>>
>>
>> So, USC seems to have been a bit of a letdown. Would the MGM production
information then be at the MGM studios...? Anyone know? Is it worth writing
to MGM?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
> Much of this early MGM stuff is now owned by Warner Brothers. If you
> find a copy of the movie on DVD or VHS, you should be able to see who
> owns the rights.
> I ran into this situation when I began to search for copyright info on
> MGM Metro Movietone Revues.
>
>
Yep. Found it on Amazon in VHS. Warner Home Video

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