[78-L] John McCormack In Technicolor

[Bill Knowlton]

TCM recently showed "Wings Of the Morning (1937)" which is Britian's first technicolor full length movie.
 
The highlight for me was seeing John McCormack sing two songs!!
 
He was holding a small memo book with lyrics. I saw him do the same thing in an earlier film he did ("Song Of My Heart" I think).
 
Does anybody know if McCormack had trouble memorizing?
 
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