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Garland, Judy Gene Kelly "The Pirate" Sheet Music 1948 Signed Autograph
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Be A Clown"-1948-Chappell-sheet music. This song is featured in the 1948-MGM Movie-"The Pirate". The movie stars Judy Garland and Gene Kelly and they are featured on the front cover in original scenes. The sheet music originally sold for sixty cents.When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in S. N. Behrmann's The Pirate on Broadway, there were no musical numbers whatsoever. But with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in the leading roles of the 1948 filmization of The Pirate, the MGM production staff would have been drawn and quartered had there not been song after song. The story is merely serviceable: on a Caribbean isle in the early 19th century, sheltered young Garland comes to believe that travelling troubadour Kelly is in reality "Mack the Black," a notorious pirate. Kelly realizes that the surest way to win Garland's heart is to impersonate the romantic buccaneer, and this is what he does--nearly getting himself hanged in the process. Cole Porter's marvelous score yielded only one bona-fide hit: "Be a Clown", which has practically nothing to do with the storyline, but do you care? Highlights include the magnificently staged "Mack the Black," a heady combination of Broadway glitz and Caligariesque nightmare. Seven MGM screenwriters toiled away on The Pirate, though only the team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich were credited. While The Pirate was not a huge moneymaker on its first release, it has since been embraced by the cultists, who apparently can never get enough of Judy Garland. The sheet music has been autographed on the front cover by Judy Garland in blue fountain pen and Gene Kelly in brown fountain pen.............BOTH SHEET MUSIC AND AUTOGRAPHS ARE IN GOOD CONDITION...........
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