[78-L] French stuff esp. Chevalier

[Steve Williams]

I don't usually get jealous; in collecting finding stuff is all part of the
game, but stumbling upon a stack of early Chevalier REALLY has my face
stinging!  That to me is like finding a stack of Lee Morse Pathes, maybe
worse. Oh well.  At least I did find a collection of HMV mid-30's Paul
Robesons at Bee-Bee's years ago.

The trouble with that Lubitsch DVD is that "One Hour with You" is in a
grainy black and white print.  The "Lubitsch Touch" laserdisc set has that
film in a lovely, original, clean, tinted print: Gold for indoor, red for
action, and blue for night time.  Also if it were to be done right what
about " Une Heure près de toi"? with Macdonald using her fluent French.  I
know it exists since I have an awful multi-gen VHS of that film.

Steve Williams  ..

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>Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:58:12 -0700
>From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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>The other day on a house call for books I ended up with a nice stack of 
>French vocal stuff,  including a lot of Chevalier from the 20s.  A couple
of 
>the Pathes are not listed in the Rust entertainment book and have issue 
>numbers earlier than any listed.

>Is there a better Chevalier discography,  and is there anything which would

>cover Trenet,  Piaf, Printemps,  Mistengunet or whatever her name is,
etc.? 
>This appears to be all pre-war stuff.

>Thanks for any help/info.


>Taylor






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>Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 10:59:28 -0400
>From: Steve Ramm <steveramm78l at hotmail.com>
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>Speaking of Chevalier - I picked up the Ernst Lubitch Musicals DVd set from
the Criterioon Collection at 50% off fromk Barnes and Noble on line for
about $27.00 with an >additinal 15% off and Free shipping for the 4 DVDS.
This is these set of PRE-CODE Chevalier/MacDonald musicals. I'm sure I saw
them YEARS ago but really enjoying them >now. So far only through the first
"The Love Parade" - the firsr sound musical where the songs carried the
plot.
 
>I think B&N still has all the Criterion Collection on sale at 50% off (both
in store and on line). (I also got a favorite Philly film - Blow Out - (non
musical) which has >a great transfer.
 
>Steve