Musical Interlude
I've been watching Boy on a Dolphin on the installment plan. Sophia Loren is quite young and beautiful. Tonight's installment has her and Alan Ladd in a musical interlude. They're at a greek cafe/night spot, and the singer guitarist serenadist, comes to their table and serenades Miss Loren. It's bizarre cinematographically as Ladd's sitting on one side of the table looking at the camera but not at all at Miss Loren. Ladd exhibits other rather bizarre behavior in this movie...
In any event the serenadist raises his foot on a stool and sings directly to Miss Loren, in greek, presumably; and then Miss Loren sings a verse or two herself. Knowing Hollywood, I'm not 100% the voice is Miss Loren's (I don't ever remember her being known for her voice...), but nevertheless, the voice is quite as beautiful as the face and figure, and the song too is beautiful, though full of words I did not understand. May I say, if the voice really belonged to Miss Loren, I think it a pity more films didn't take advantage...
All, the time of course, Mr. Ladd sits with his back to the lady... and generally oggles the rest of the universe with a tumorous smile. At some point the song ends but a new one begins and Miss Loren jumps up to dance a greek dance with four or five other greeks, and well, dances better than Zorba.
All in all, I'm quite impressed with Miss Loren. All in all, I'm quite impressed with Greece too; and not to mention there's actually very nice color/high def underwater cinematography in the movie; presumably also greek, though who knows... Worth a greek peek at least.
In any event the serenadist raises his foot on a stool and sings directly to Miss Loren, in greek, presumably; and then Miss Loren sings a verse or two herself. Knowing Hollywood, I'm not 100% the voice is Miss Loren's (I don't ever remember her being known for her voice...), but nevertheless, the voice is quite as beautiful as the face and figure, and the song too is beautiful, though full of words I did not understand. May I say, if the voice really belonged to Miss Loren, I think it a pity more films didn't take advantage...
All, the time of course, Mr. Ladd sits with his back to the lady... and generally oggles the rest of the universe with a tumorous smile. At some point the song ends but a new one begins and Miss Loren jumps up to dance a greek dance with four or five other greeks, and well, dances better than Zorba.
All in all, I'm quite impressed with Miss Loren. All in all, I'm quite impressed with Greece too; and not to mention there's actually very nice color/high def underwater cinematography in the movie; presumably also greek, though who knows... Worth a greek peek at least.
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