Ben Selvin & His Orch. - Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere 1929

The 1929 Talkie „The Trespasser" was Edmund Goulding melodrama with Gloria Swanson (in her first „ALL TALKING picture"), Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt and Henry B. Walthall. )The producer Joseph P. Kennedy was the father of Joe, John, Bobby, and Teddy Kennedy, and had a well publicized love affair with Gloria Swanson for many years).

She originally hired writer/director Edmund Goulding to help her complete „Queen Kelly", the unfinished silent epic she'd started with Erich von Stroheim. After he'd spent months editing Von Stroheim's footage, Goulding persuaded Swanson to make „The Trespasser" -- based upon D.H. Lawrence's novel, instead. He wrote the script in three weeks, the movie was in theaters by the end of the year, and Swanson recouped enough money to pay off „Queen Kelly"'s backers.
The film tells the story of a "kept woman" who maintains a lavish life style with the help of her lover. It earned an Academy Award nomination for Gloria Swanson in her talkie debut and was a smash hit for its superstar, Gloria Swanson. (In 1937, Goulding remade the film as That Certain Woman with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda).

Sadly for Swanson, „The Trespasser" proved to be her only hit talkie. Subsequent followups like „What a Widow!", „Indiscreet", „Tonight or Never", „Perfect Understanding" and „Music in the Air" all proved to be box-office flops. Despite the disappointments following „The Trespasser", Swanson will be forever remembered as Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's masterpiece „Sunset Boulevard" (1950).

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Recording:
Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere (from the Talkie "The Trespasser") (Music Edmund Gould, Words Elsie Janis), Columbia 1929

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[rogharm]

@78timothy Max is Holden Norma's face sitting in the car. the car drove a de mile to paramount from her chateau. she is ready for her closeup. norma cannot face the facts that it is her car they want so she kills holden holding her. (JOKE) ROGHARM but i heard her sing the song on youtube and she sounds like an opera singer. that is no joke.

[avnostlga]

I own this 78, with Sunny Side Up on the B-Side. It's a Columbia recording. Can anyone tell me where I can find an mp.3 of this song? For as much as I love this disc, all I own to play it is a Victrola. (Which mind you really belts out the bass in this song!)

[NEWbobofhollywood]

Excellent~. I once owned this record and FOOLISHLY sold it in the early days of Ebay. I remember it sold for about 50 bucks or so, though. I also remember the other side of the record is SUNNY SIDE UP! Thank you for making this available.

[rogharm]

@78timothy they wanted her car for a picture not her face. norma demonic desmond.  love this arrangement. i want more records like this. i will ask max if "max is holden any more great records which i did not hear" get the pun holden holding. i am now ready for my close-up we had faces. i have ears and enjoy these great arrangements and great singers. ROGHARM

[rogharm]

we had faces then! the chesire cat in alice in wonderland. love this record great tempo and paul small does a big singing talent. paul smal was big great singer. we had voices then what about the rest of the body. read the website of ===the culver studios===where it mentions that gloria's ghost and otherghost are perceived at the former pathe/rko pathe studio. ROGHARM

[NelsonWiggen8]

Superb Viva Tonal. Such great fidelity for a 1929 recording. Always a favorite tune of mine. Someone should post the Ampico piano roll of this tune! John Gourley

[TaraMoriah]

When will TCM show THE TRESPASSER?The BFI & The Academy showcased the fim recently.A lot of us fans can not afford to travel to Califonia,which has fabulous film festivals.The movie is not lost.

[cygnus011]

Charming! fascino e dolcezza.

[78timothy]

Vocalist is Smith Ballew. This is great record as well. Gloria Swanson waxed a vocal of this for Victor (RKO/RCA had a connection)

I have a copy of it. She could sing as well as dialog (she also had a face to quote Sunset Blvd. Hehe

[sfca925]

I think the vocalist was Paul Small--and I know from expert testimony that Gloria was about 5 feet tall (or so). Just my 2 cents worth. Thanks for the great record.