My favorite ghost story ever. A movie that gives you chills without resorting to slasher techniques. And what beautiful music. I searched high and low for Mimosa perfume for my wife as she loved this movie also. Found a supplier and my wife loved the scent. My wife has passed but I spray the perfume whenever I want to have pleasant memories.
I'm swooning listening to Ray Milland (a class act) playing this haunting music to Gail Russell in a tmospheric sea side mansion. Doesn't get much better. A real classic song.
The best ghost story ever put on film, helped enormously by Victor Young's haunting score, and this tune, which would become the perennial standard, "Stella By Starlight". This movie made exquisite and tragic Gail Russell an overnight star, which was the worst thing that happened in her short life.
Love, love, love this! One of my favorite films and songs, and I was born much later in '58. Pure magic. Seeing this as a teenager, it sent chills down my spine. I always wanted to meet the man of my dreams and live with him in house like that on the coast of Cornwall. You can get it on DVD now, but it deserves the restoration treatment some of the other classic movies are getting.
This is just plain wonderful. A man courting a woman in a very loving manner. The tune is a perfect study in Italian aria- just about every note starts as an appoggiatura
and morphs into another suspension needing resolution. Rather than being corny I find this tune (the lyrics fall short of matching the melody) much needed for this period in history.
@AcousticUplift I disagree- I think the best songs are ones which are a real time collaboration. In this manner I think Ellington wrote tunes not songs. His tunes which I find mediocre were outfitted with mediocre lyrics. SKYLARK I believe was also "lyricized" later. In my opinion the most memorable songs are ones where a team worked together in a give and take or songs written by a person who did music and lyrics (Cole Porter is one)
I agree that the kind of collaborative effort you mentioned often works best but as always there are exceptions. I think 'Stella...' is one of them. I wasn't necessarily aware that the lyrics were put to it later. I find the imagery beautiful and moving esp the line 'A song the robin sings through years of endless springs' +for some reason even more so I like the relationship btwn the lyric and melody on 'The murmur of a brook at eventide...'
Also didn't the lyrics to 'Round Midnight' by Monk only later added to the song? I can think of a few other examples where this has been successful IMHO. I think it has a far better success rate than say songs translated into English from other languages such as Bossa Nova classics originally written in Portuguese only to lose their power, beauty and even original meaning once sung in English.
An absolute classic ballad from a wonderful film. Having first heard Stella By Starlight when I saw The Uninvited, it is always inextricably linked in my mind. Wouldn't have it any other way.
In D? damn....
HyrulianWarlord 1 week ago
oh ! Thanks so much ! Beautiful moment of this movie
cornedebrume 2 weeks ago
My favorite ghost story ever. A movie that gives you chills without resorting to slasher techniques. And what beautiful music. I searched high and low for Mimosa perfume for my wife as she loved this movie also. Found a supplier and my wife loved the scent. My wife has passed but I spray the perfume whenever I want to have pleasant memories.
nmvince42 1 month ago
Has there ever been a lovlier moment in film?
Not for me. Gail Russell was the most beautiful women in Hollywood history.
Those eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ronandgail123 4 months ago
One of the best ghost stories I have ever seen on film, and the song was so surreal. Breathtaking movie. Gail Russell was absolutely beautiful.
niurka33134miami 5 months ago
@niurka33134miami...I agree - Gail Russell was absolutely beautiful ... great movie.
bigcity233 4 months ago
The piano arrangement used in this film is sublime. Victor Young did some great work.
bigcity233 7 months ago
I'm swooning listening to Ray Milland (a class act) playing this haunting music to Gail Russell in a tmospheric sea side mansion. Doesn't get much better. A real classic song.
windstorm1000 8 months ago
The best ghost story ever put on film, helped enormously by Victor Young's haunting score, and this tune, which would become the perennial standard, "Stella By Starlight". This movie made exquisite and tragic Gail Russell an overnight star, which was the worst thing that happened in her short life.
edwardjames50 11 months ago
amazing!
fadyyosuif 11 months ago
Love, love, love this! One of my favorite films and songs, and I was born much later in '58. Pure magic. Seeing this as a teenager, it sent chills down my spine. I always wanted to meet the man of my dreams and live with him in house like that on the coast of Cornwall. You can get it on DVD now, but it deserves the restoration treatment some of the other classic movies are getting.
taspaulding 1 year ago
....what a shame,that this picture is not available on DVD! Evrything is great on this
pictures-and to me ABOVE all the wonderful soundtrack of Victor Young! Genius!
AL10Hermann 1 year ago
This is just plain wonderful. A man courting a woman in a very loving manner. The tune is a perfect study in Italian aria- just about every note starts as an appoggiatura
and morphs into another suspension needing resolution. Rather than being corny I find this tune (the lyrics fall short of matching the melody) much needed for this period in history.
dinnerpianist 1 year ago 4
@dinnerpianist I have to say I find the lyrics transcendent and quite profound. I think there's a perfect symbiosis between the words and melody.
AcousticUplift 1 year ago
@AcousticUplift I disagree- I think the best songs are ones which are a real time collaboration. In this manner I think Ellington wrote tunes not songs. His tunes which I find mediocre were outfitted with mediocre lyrics. SKYLARK I believe was also "lyricized" later. In my opinion the most memorable songs are ones where a team worked together in a give and take or songs written by a person who did music and lyrics (Cole Porter is one)
dinnerpianist 1 year ago
I agree that the kind of collaborative effort you mentioned often works best but as always there are exceptions. I think 'Stella...' is one of them. I wasn't necessarily aware that the lyrics were put to it later. I find the imagery beautiful and moving esp the line 'A song the robin sings through years of endless springs' +for some reason even more so I like the relationship btwn the lyric and melody on 'The murmur of a brook at eventide...'
AcousticUplift 1 year ago
Also didn't the lyrics to 'Round Midnight' by Monk only later added to the song? I can think of a few other examples where this has been successful IMHO. I think it has a far better success rate than say songs translated into English from other languages such as Bossa Nova classics originally written in Portuguese only to lose their power, beauty and even original meaning once sung in English.
AcousticUplift 1 year ago
An absolute classic ballad from a wonderful film. Having first heard Stella By Starlight when I saw The Uninvited, it is always inextricably linked in my mind. Wouldn't have it any other way.
mattleemattlee123 1 year ago 10