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Pazza per la musica

Titolo originale: Mad About Music
  • 1938
  • Approved
  • 1h 40min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Deanna Durbin in Pazza per la musica (1938)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where sh... Leggi tuttoA young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen after she talks a visiting Englishman into... Leggi tuttoA young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen after she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

  • Regia
    • Norman Taurog
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Bruce Manning
    • Felix Jackson
    • Marcella Burke
  • Star
    • Deanna Durbin
    • Herbert Marshall
    • Gail Patrick
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,1/10
    711
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Norman Taurog
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Bruce Manning
      • Felix Jackson
      • Marcella Burke
    • Star
      • Deanna Durbin
      • Herbert Marshall
      • Gail Patrick
    • 11Recensioni degli utenti
    • 7Recensioni della critica
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    Deanna Durbin
    Deanna Durbin
    • Gloria
    Herbert Marshall
    Herbert Marshall
    • Richard
    Gail Patrick
    Gail Patrick
    • Gwen
    Arthur Treacher
    Arthur Treacher
    • Tripps
    William Frawley
    William Frawley
    • 'Dusty'
    Marcia Mae Jones
    Marcia Mae Jones
    • Olga
    Helen Parrish
    Helen Parrish
    • Felice
    Jackie Moran
    Jackie Moran
    • Tommy
    Elisabeth Risdon
    Elisabeth Risdon
    • Annette Fusenot
    Nana Bryant
    Nana Bryant
    • Louise Fusenot
    Christian Rub
    Christian Rub
    • Pierre
    Charles Peck
    Charles Peck
    • Henry
    Sid Grauman
    • Sid Grauman
    Cappy Barra and His Harmonica Ensemble
    • Cappy Barra and His Harmonica Ensemble
    Bobby Barber
    Bobby Barber
    • Man on Street
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    Cappy Barra
    • Band Leader
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    Paul Bradley
    Paul Bradley
    • Reporter
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    Patti Brill
    Patti Brill
    • Schoolgirl on Bike
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    • Regia
      • Norman Taurog
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Bruce Manning
      • Felix Jackson
      • Marcella Burke
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    6HotToastyRag

    Cute precursor to 'Kathleen'

    In another delightful Deanna Durbin vehicle, she stars as a lonely girl in boarding school who lies about her parents. Her mother is a famous actress in Hollywood, but since she isn't allowed to let her fans know she's old enough to have a teenaged daughter (orders of her manager William Frawley) she forces Deanna to keep it a secret. With no father to talk about either, Deanna makes one up. She forges letters and finds fake photographs, making up stories that her father is an explorer on safari, entertaining most of the girls in her school. One girl, Helen Parrish, doesn't believe her, and she humiliates Deanna by exposing one of the fake photographs. Spurred on, Deanna lies and pretends her father is coming to visit her at the school!

    Armed with a bouquet of flowers and all her classmates behind her, she goes to the train station to wait for an unsuspecting man traveling alone. In walks Herbert Marshall - and the stage is set. It's no wonder Herbert Marshall was cast as Shirley Temple's father in 1941's Kathleen, a film with a very similar premise. He's just delightful and perfect casting as a father figure. I love him in comedies, for he's so charming and sweet. He manages to make it look like he's amused without breaking character, with is a thin line to cross.

    Deanna's lovely voice is showcased in this movie, of course, and you'll get to see some lovely Hollywood sets of Switzerland. Elisabeth Risdon is the headmistress of the school, Arthur Treacher is Bart's manservant, and Marcia Mae Jones is Deanna's best friend. This one isn't as funny as Kathleen, but it is a good precursor and entertaining every time Bart opens his mouth.
    8csteidler

    Attractive characters, lovely music, and a wonderful performance from Deanna Durbin

    Deanna Durbin is irresistible as 14-year-old Gloria Harkinson. Living at a ritzy girls' school in Switzerland and blessed with friends and talent, Gloria is nevertheless lonely for a parent—and gets herself into a mess by writing herself letters from her imaginary big-game-hunter father.

    Composer Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall) steps off a train in the small Swiss village and finds himself recruited to play the role of that father; Marshall gives a most charming performance as the initially reluctant phony parent who rather quickly takes to Gloria and looks to help her out.

    Durbin sings beautifully….the picture opens with a bicycle-riding gang of girls singing "I Love to Whistle"; she sings "Ave Maria" in front of a boys choir; and she performs a beautiful number called "Chapel Bells" with Marshall (a composer, after all) sitting at the piano.

    A strong cast includes Gail Patrick as Gloria's movie star mother—although she misses her daughter, she follows the guidance of her agent (William Frawley), who thinks his "glamor girl" client's fans would be shocked if it were known that she even had a daughter. Arthur Treacher is amusing as Marshall's (very) English valet.

    The best supporting roles belong to the kids: Jackie Moran as Gloria's young would-be suitor; Marcia Mae Jones as her loyal friend Olga; and especially Helen Parrish as Felice—suspicious from the start of Gloria's tales about her father, she is eventually softened by kindness received.

    The plot is of course fantastic, but when characters are this charming, who cares? It all comes across as the kind of thing we would love to believe if only it could be true. –And I guess that's what the movies are all about.
    6planktonrules

    Is the Durbin version any better?

    One of Jane Powell's earliest films was "Delightfully Dangerous" and I was not exactly bowled over by it. Apparently, it was a remake of "Mad About Music" but instead of starring Powell, it starred Universal's big young singing star, Deanna Durbin.

    The film finds young Gloria at an exclusive girls school in Switzerland. It seems her mother is a Hollywood star who has dumped her there where she is very lonely. This is made worse by the school bully who inexplicably hates this sweet young lady. So, to combat boredom and being so alone, Gloria creates a fictional father...complete with all sorts of exploits. She tells the girls that he's a big game hunter in Africa...and the bully demands Gloria show that he's real, as the bully suspects Gloria's made him up...which she has. So, she could either come clean about him or continue with the lie...and so she doubles down and tells everyone he's coming for a visit! So, she then heads to the train station and convinces a total stranger (Herbert Marshall) to accompany her. He has no idea about the lie and her classmates, at least temporarily, are appeased. But this certainly can't go on forever...so what's next?

    This is an enjoyable film, though if you watch it there are two nagging problems that are bound to enter your mind. First, the man she convinces to be her father. He agrees to help her but there is no logical reason for this. Second, if you think about it, the idea of an adult man hanging out with a 14 year-old he doesn't even know AND tells everyone he's her father...well, that's mega-creepy! If you can manage to look past this, the film is enjoyable and fun...and weird.
    6boblipton

    Deanna'll Fix It

    Widow Gail Patrick shows up at agent William Frawley's office, anxious to work for her and her babe in arms. Frawley tells her she can't be a young, glamorous movie star with a baby, so they park the infant in Switzerland. Fourteen years later, Miss Patrick (who was ten years older than Miss Durbin) is a successful glamor star, and her daughter is Deanna Durbin at a girls school in Switzerland, who makes up stories about her father, the explorer.

    After some issues with her fellow student, Miss Durbin is with them at the train station, and announces Herbert Marshall is her father. He goes along with the gag, but Miss Durbin keeps showing up, much to the confusion of his valet, Arthur Treacher. They part, but then Deanna learns her mother is going to be performing in Paris, so off she goes, only to run in again to Marshall.

    Little Miss Fix-it eventually fixes everything, sing "Ave Maria" and "I Love To Whistle", charms groundskeeper Christian Rub, and so does everything that her fans loved to see her doing. It's pleasant, it's fun, and will surprise no one.
    9lugonian

    Swiss Miss

    ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** "Mad About Music" (Universal, 1938), directed by Norman Taurog, is Deanna Durbin's third feature film, and ranks one of her finest in many ways, especially with a delightful storyline and Durbin's likable charm, but unfortunately, this is one overlooked treasure from the golden age of teenage musicals.

    The story opens with Gwen Taylor (Gail Patrick), a celebrated movie actress, placing her hand prints in the cement block at Grauman's Chinese Theater. Unknown to many, Gwen has been separated from her daughter for ten years because of her great popularity, and finds that she cannot reveal to her fans that a glamor girl like herself is a mother of a 14-year-old girl. Gloria Harkinson (Deanna Durbin), the daughter in question, is being educated at a Swiss school for girls. Well liked by her classmates, she is immensely disliked by one in particular, Felice (Helen Parrish), who is not only jealous of her popularity around school, but is very eager to learn more about Gloria's questionable family background, especially when she refuses to believe that Gloria's father is a famous African explorer. To cover up her lies, Gloria has her middle-aged friend, Pierre (Christian Rub) back her up by writing letters to her, signing them from "her Dad." Because her little white lies are getting her deeper and deeper in trouble, Gloria, realizing that she is being followed by her classmates as she is heading for the train station, suddenly approaches a man named Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall), and his valet, Tripps (Arthur Treacher). Before Todd realizes what has happened, the distinguished gentleman finds himself suddenly acting as Gloria's father and coming to her school where he impresses the girls by talking about his "hunting adventures in Africa." More problems arise when Gloria learns that her mother is visiting in Paris, and must manage to sneak away from the school without arousing any more attention.

    The storyline to "Mad About Music" may sound corny in print, but in reality, it is highly amusing and entertaining throughout its 98 minutes screen time, and it's easy to see why Durbin became such a box office attraction, having both voice and personality. The supporting cast consists of a younger William Frawley playing Dusty Turner, Gwen Taylor's agent; Marcia Mae Jones as Olga, Gloria's best friend; Elisabeth Risdon as the school official; Jackie Moran and Charles Peck as military academy students interested in Gloria and Olga; Franklin Pangborn seen briefly as the hotel manager; plus a cameo appearance by Sidney Grauman of Grauman's Chinese Theater in the opening segment of the story. One scene finds Frawley's character in a sentimental moment as he tells Gloria that she mustn't see her mother, as much as he knows in his heart that seeing her mother would mean a lot to her. The way this scene is handled is well done, showing the warmer side of Frawley, a fine character actor known for his grumpiness and his sarcastic comedic one-liners, especially used to great advantage in the immortal long running TV series from the 1950s, "I Love Lucy," starring Lucille Ball. It is also interesting to see the young and sassy Gail Patrick cast against type playing a mother.

    New songs by Harold Adamson and Jimmy McHugh include: "I Love to Whistle," "Ave Maria" (by Charles Francois Gounod); "Chapel Bells" "I Love to Whistle" and "Serenade to the Stars." Aside from Durbin's singing, the Capps Barros Harmonica Players also participate in a song number.

    "Mad About Music" resembles the story lines used by MGM, especially those Jane Powell Technicolor musicals of the late 1940s, mainly because it was produced by Joe Pasternak, who brought over his charm of teenage musicals from Universal to MGM, revamping the formula he originated in the Durbin films. Universal-International would remake "Mad About Music" as "The Toy Tiger" (1956) featuring Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day and Tim Hovey in the Marshall, Patrick and Durbin roles. While "The Toy Tiger" did get some television exposure on American Movie Classics in the 1990s, "Mad About Music" at present, did not. This Durbin original is available on video cassette and DVD, and made its Turner Classic Movies cable channel premiere September 11, 2022. After watching this, it would be impossible not to become "Mad About Deanna." (****)

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      Thirteenth in the list of top US box-office grossing movies of 1938.
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      The sign in what is supposed to be a French movie theater says "Exit" instead of "Sortie"
    • Citazioni

      [first lines]

      Lady at Theatre: Gwen, you were marvellous.

      Gwen Taylor: Oh, thank you very much.

    • Connessioni
      Edited into Christmas Hymns (1954)
    • Colonne sonore
      A Serenade to the Stars
      Music by Jimmy McHugh

      Lyrics by Harold Adamson

      Copyright 1938 by Universal Music Corporation (uncredited)

      Sung by Deanna Durbin (uncredited)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 27 febbraio 1938 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
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      • Universal Pictures
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