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eo | \ | $e lee © VARIETY ©____ |] HOLLYWOOD RUNAROUND By RADIE HARRIS — ha’ When Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn were first called to Metro to write the ; tant and music to “lt Happened in Brooklyn,” they.said to producer Jack = Cummings, “Let's not make the same mistake with this picture as they made nn here with ‘Anchors Aweigh,! “ Cummings looked at the boys as if they had just escaped from the nearest asylum. The same mistake? Don’t you know that every day truckloads ride in the front gate to unload millions of dollars this picture is coining all over the country?" “Oh, we approve of that kind of ‘take’! (minus the mis). What we mean is, we don’t want to make the mistake of having Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson in the same picture and not have them sing at least one number 3 together.” Which explains why in “It Happened in Brooklyn,’ Sinatra and Grayson will duet an aria from ‘La Giovanni.” u The other p.m. Styne and Cahn played and sang me the entire score.for the picture, and in the words of Schnozzle himself, ‘It’s collosial.” It’s g cinch you will be hearing “I Believe,” “I'm So Lucky to Be Loved By You,” and “I Love the Brooklyn Bridge’ on the Hit Parade, but the one | got the - biggest bang out of was the specialty number, ‘As Long as It Comes from the Heart,"" with which Jimmia and Frankie will tear down the house. As part of the patter, Jimmie asks Frank, “What makes Caruso the greatest ' Singer of the day?“ - : i “His voice? asks Sinatra. : ——— Whereupon Jimmie nods back, ‘It helped!’ pay Sage ‘ i ‘ ’ DERAL BOK-AU &§ rome Fe US. DEPAR ie Eoy Ht fuses Og AUG 16 1946 LOS ANCELES FIELD OF; yf RGUTEO 10°