{"id":278589,"date":"2018-11-06T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/06\/auldcine-joan-blondell-performs-remember-my\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:19:03","slug":"auldcine-joan-blondell-performs-remember-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/06\/auldcine-joan-blondell-performs-remember-my\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joan Blondell <\/b>performs<\/a>\u00a0\u201cRemember My Forgotten Man\u201d in Gold Diggers of 1933 <\/i>(1933)<\/small><\/p>\n

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Joan [Blondell] was not the most musical of stars. Her dancing was passable, but she was wanting vocally. Her singing voice was, in fact, everything her speaking voice was not \u2013 flat, limited in range, and uninteresting. Berkeley was not deterred. \u201cIt was a spectacle type of number and a good one to use in those dark days of the Depression when many people had forgotten about the guys who had gone to war for our country,\u201d he said. \u201cI did something extraordinary in that number, too, when I had Joan Blondell sing the song because Joan Blondell can\u2019t sing. But I knew she could act it. I knew she could \u2018talk it\u2019 and put over the drama for me.\u201d<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

Joan is galvanizing in \u201cRemember My Forgotten Man.\u201d In her few moments with the song she is sultry, vulnerable, bitter, and yearning. She is then followed by the magnificent Etta Moten, who provides the song a vocal melody. Later still, the soldiers, then bums, make for a powerful musicalization of politics and history. \u201cRemember My Forgotten Man\u201d is perhaps the most socially urgent song ever conceived for an American musical film<\/i>. ~Matthew Kennedy,\u00a0\u201cJoan Blondell: A Life Between Takes\u201d
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auldcine: Joan Blondell performs\u00a0\u201cRemember My Forgotten Man\u201d in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Joan [Blondell] was not the most musical of stars. Her dancing was passable, but she was wanting vocally. Her singing voice was, in fact, everything her speaking voice was not \u2013 flat, limited in range, and uninteresting. Berkeley was not deterred. \u201cIt … <\/p>\n

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