Hollywood On 52nd Street
Maybe September is a 1965 song composed by Jay Livingston, Ray Evans and Percy Faith that was debuted by Tony Bennett in the 1966 drama The Oscar, a film written by Harlan Ellison, Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse and Richard Sale for Paramount Pictures.
The film was directed by Rouse and starred Stephen Boyd, singer Tony Bennett in his film debut, comedian Milton Berle in a dramatic role, Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, Jill St. John, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten, Edie Adams, Peter Lawford, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, Walter Brennan and Jack Soo. Appearing as themselves are Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Merle Oberon, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra.
Despite the film’s impressive cast and crew, the film did not win any Oscars, though Bennett did pick up the Golden Turkey Award for Wrost Performance By A Popular Singer. Jay Livingston, Ray Evans and Percy Faith
The Story
Rising movie star Frankie Fane finds himself in Hollywood but has used and abused everyone around him, especially the two women who have loved him. Becoming box office poison, at his lowest point he unexpectedly receives an Oscar nomination, which his agent Kappy believes is the result of Fane’s portrayal of a man without morals, therefore portraying himself. To help insure a win, he hires a detective to spread sympathy rumors to influence the voters. The moment of truth comes at the Academy Awards, as the presenter announces the winner, stating the name Frank, whereupon Fane rises instantaneously to head to the stage, but then hears Sinatra, leaving him stunned and crestfallen. Clapping his hands weakly, everyone in the assemblage whom he has wronged enjoys the comeuppance for this wholly self-absorbed, unfeeling individual.
