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Dorothy Parker and Cecil B. De Mille
Sep. 4th, 2009 11:36 amWho knew? Dorothy Parker wrote lyrics for a song in De Mille's first sound film, Dynamite (1929):
The movie's theme song, "How am I to Know?" had lyrics supplied by, of all people, Dorothy Parker. As Richard Barrios remarks in A Song in the Dark, "A more inappropriate collision of talents and personalities cannot be imagined, and it was not observed that Parker took to her job with undue gravity." The humorless De Mille rejected her first two song suggestions, "Dynamite, I Love You" and "Dynamite, Blow My Sweetie Back to Me."
-- Movie Diva on Dynamite
The movie's theme song, "How am I to Know?" had lyrics supplied by, of all people, Dorothy Parker. As Richard Barrios remarks in A Song in the Dark, "A more inappropriate collision of talents and personalities cannot be imagined, and it was not observed that Parker took to her job with undue gravity." The humorless De Mille rejected her first two song suggestions, "Dynamite, I Love You" and "Dynamite, Blow My Sweetie Back to Me."
-- Movie Diva on Dynamite
