Hollywood On 52nd Street
Love Letters is a 1945 popular song composed by Victor Young with lyrics written by Edward Heyman. The song appeared, without lyrics, in the movie of the same name and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Song for 1945. The film starred Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise.
The Story: The plot tells the story of American soldier Alan Quinton in Italy during WWII who has been writing letters for his friend Roger Morland to Victoria Remington, expressing feelings he could never say in person. Realizing she has fallen in love with him and that she will be disappointed in the real Roger, he abruptly leaves for paratrooper training in England. However, it is Alan who is falling in love with Victoria.
Injured, Alan discovers Roger and Victoria are both dead. Hereturns to England, spends time with his fiancé Helen Wentworth, lives at his aunt’s farm and is taken to a party by his brother. He meets Dilly Carson and Singleton, relates the Roger/Victoria story, Dilly realizes its Singleton and that the letters were somehow involved.
Singleton is actually Victoria, an amnesiac woman with two personalities, who killed his soldier friend, Roger. However, after spending time with her she realizes Alan is in love with her but not that she is Victoria. They marry after getting permission from her adopted mother, Beatrice Remington, bit the marriage is scarred by Alan’s love for Victoria.
Talking with Beatrice, Singleton begins to remember her abusive marriage to Roger and that it is Beatrice who stabbed him to death as Victoria attempts to save the letters thrown into the fireplace. Alan arrives at the house, Victoria recalls her true identity and they fall into each other’s arms.
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Cafe Claude: 7 Claude Lane, San Francisco, California 94108 / Telephone: 415.392.3505 Fax 415.392.2226 / Café Claude provides an intimate venue for local jazz musicians since its opening twelve years ago. Many of these musical performers have become familiar names in the Bay Area jazz scene. It’s an evening of entertainment whether sitting down to a complete dining experience or just dropping by for a dessert, cocktail and jazz.
Next Stop: New York City – After a spending a wonderful Christmas holiday in the Bay I head out to SFO to catch a 12:30pm Delta Flight 2305 east, an hour layover and plane change in Minneapolis to Delta Flight 1596then it’s on to LaGuardia Airport to land 6 hours and 20 minutes later to bring in the New Year in the Big Apple. No jet lag as I head into the city, drop the luggage and out in the streets to soak up Manhattan holiday revelry – a hot pretzel at Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and skating in Central Park before heading out for some dinner and jazz.
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Laura is a jazz standard written for the 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The theme song was composed by Johnny Mercer nd David Raksin. The movie starred Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb with supporting cast comprised of Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson.
The Story: New York City police detective Mark McPherson (played by Andrews) is investigating the murder of beautiful and highly successful advertising executive, Laura Hunt (Tierney). A series of interviews leads McPherson to the people in Laura’s life – decadent newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Webb), parasitic playboy fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Price) and her aunt Ann Treadwell (Anderson) who has been carrying on with Carpenter and giving him money. Through the ensuing investigation McPherson falls in love with the dead woman’s image only to discover that she is alive and that another girl was murdered. He now only has to learn the identity of the murderer in order to save Laura.
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Club Monk: 53-34 DaeYeon 3 Tong, Nam K u. (between Kyonseong Univ. & Pukeong Univ.), Busan, South Korea / Telephone: +82-(0)51-622-2212 Fax: +82-(0)51-312-5157 / Contact: JungRai Lee.
The 3rd oldest jazz club in Korea from 1992-2007. Jazz styles: post bop, hard bop, fusion, etc. Open 7:00pm- 02:00am with live music from 9:00pm – 11:15pm. There is no live music on Sunday and no food, but several dishes are served such as sausage, pork cutlet, fruits, etc. And more than 3,000 jazz CDs.
Next Stop: San Francisco – Heading out to Busan Airport to catch a 7:20am Asiana flight to Seoul. With a ten hour layover I’ll head into Seoul to check out the city and get some great food. Then back to Incheon International Airport for the 6:10pm United Airlines dinner flight heading home for the holidays to the States. After the 10 hour flight I’ll arrive in San Francisco at 11:30am, getting through customs and get picked up by friends, head to the wharf for some great seafood and a great hang and some jazz.
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Be My Love is now a jazz standard written by Nicholas Brodszky and Sammy Cahn and was originally featured in the 1950 film The Toast Of New Orleans. Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza and David Niven were the stars of the movie with supporting roles by J. Carroll Naish, James Mitchell and a teenaged Rita Moreno.
The Story: The plot revolves around Pepe Abellard Duvalle, a New Orleans fisherman, who falls in love with opera star soprano Suzette Micheline.
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