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Songs that mention movie stars from the fifties.
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Okay, this one seems tailor made for me...
The Right Profile/The Clash (Monty Clift)
That'll Be the Day/Buddy Holly (well, it quotes John Wayne from "The Searchers")
Gone Too Soon/Neil Diamond -- (name check extravaganza pre the even sillier "We Didn't Start the Fire", probably mentions several, or at least James Dean, but I can't be sure")
James Dean -- The Eagles
Bela Lugosi's Dead/That Goth Band I've Blocked from my Mind
Beware of the Blob/the four blobs (the blob is the star of the movie!)
The Right Profile/The Clash (Monty Clift)
That'll Be the Day/Buddy Holly (well, it quotes John Wayne from "The Searchers")
Gone Too Soon/Neil Diamond -- (name check extravaganza pre the even sillier "We Didn't Start the Fire", probably mentions several, or at least James Dean, but I can't be sure")
James Dean -- The Eagles
Bela Lugosi's Dead/That Goth Band I've Blocked from my Mind
Beware of the Blob/the four blobs (the blob is the star of the movie!)
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Bette definitely counts, as she did most of her best work in the fifties! (All About Eve, to start with)spooky girlfriend wrote:Not sure if these exactly count:
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Buddy Holly (okay, musician, not movie star) - Weezer
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A quick look at the IMDB reveals that, as I suspected, Marlene, like Bette Davis, did some of her great work in the fifites with the best directors of the day, specifically "Rancho Notorious" for Fritz Lang, "Touch of Evil" for Orson Welles (where she gets to deliver the closing benediction, "What can you say about a man...") and, my personal favorite, "Witness for the Prosecution" for Billy Wilder. Yep, definitely a fifties movie star, even if the insane glamor of his Josep von Sternberg movies (and, if you haven't seen "The Scarlet Empress", you don't know what insane glamor is) was behind her.
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Springsteen - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City "I could walk like Brando right into the sun, then dance just like a casanova..."
EC - Complicated Shadows "Like a John Ford film"
Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding "dies like Cagney, like every hero's dream.."
Tom Wait's - Going Out West. "'cos Tony Franciosa used to date my Ma"
Dylan "When Quinn The eskimo (Anthony Quinn) gets here, everybody's going to jump for joy!"
But it's time to pull out the winner, not all 50's but a song that gets some points because it highlights everything that is wanky about Madonna - Vogue:
"...Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine
Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers, dance on air
They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katharine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you..."
EC - Complicated Shadows "Like a John Ford film"
Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding "dies like Cagney, like every hero's dream.."
Tom Wait's - Going Out West. "'cos Tony Franciosa used to date my Ma"
Dylan "When Quinn The eskimo (Anthony Quinn) gets here, everybody's going to jump for joy!"
But it's time to pull out the winner, not all 50's but a song that gets some points because it highlights everything that is wanky about Madonna - Vogue:
"...Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine
Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers, dance on air
They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katharine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you..."
John Prine - Picture Show "John Garfield in the afternoon/Montgomery Clift at night" and "James Dean went out to Hollywood/Put his picture in a picture show"
Bob Dylan - Brownsville Girl.....the song's entire plot revolves around Bob REALLY liking The Gunfighter, a fine Gregory Peck western from the 1950's.
Bob Dylan - Brownsville Girl.....the song's entire plot revolves around Bob REALLY liking The Gunfighter, a fine Gregory Peck western from the 1950's.