A Song is Born

Howard Hawks repeated himself a lot, especially through the 30s, but this is his first outright remake of an earlier film he made. Based on the same Billy Wilder story that led to the script for Ball of Fire, A Song is Born recasts the literary main character played by Gary Cooper into a musical historian played by Danny Kaye. For a while, this remolding of the material from literary to musical feels like a strong step in the right direction with a livelier field of study to dramatize in cin...