Stephen Rennicks - 'Dreams Never Ending'

I originally made this sound piece in response to being asked to take part in an exhibition for the Boyle Arts festival 2009. It didn't happen for me in the end but I liked it anyway. In my research I discovered that Maureen OSullivan (1911 - 1998) was an Irish actress who was considered Ireland's first film star. She was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, the daughter of Mary Lovatt (née Fraser) and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in The Connaught Rangers who served in The Great War. Her film career began when she met motion picture director Frank Borzage, who was doing location filming on Song o' My Heart. He suggested she take a screen test. She did and won a part in the movie, which starred Irish tenor John McCormack. She then travelled to the United States to complete the movie in Hollywood. O'Sullivan appeared in six movies at Fox, then made three more at other movie studios. In 1932, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After several roles there and at other movie studios, she was chosen to appear as Jane Parker in Tarzan and the Ape. Besides playing Jane, she was one of the more popular stock characters at MGM throughout the 1930s and appeared in a number of other productions with various stars. She had seven children, one of which is the actress Mia Farrow. She died in Scottsdale, Arizona of complications from heart surgery. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard.

I see this sound piece as essentially about small town dreaming but also about how it all comes back to a more fundamental kind of dreaming in the end, with women in this case, wishing to tame their men. Dreams never ending!

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[kitiamuriel]

This is profound, ironic, moving... I suggest a bit of it three times a day, for a week. Repeat the treatment. Only pleasant side effects. K.