Jimmy Stewart vs. Guy Lombardo

The Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. XXXI, No. 11), dated December 5, 1930, had a story about its upcoming production of The Tiger Smiles. Both the article and the play were written by Joshua Logan. Notice that Logan did not spell Stewart’s name correctly, spelling it “Stuart.” A few days later, on December 10, 1930 (Vol…

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Ziegfeld Girl – Soundtrack

At the time the film was released, there was no soundtrack album. There were however several 78 RPM records of songs from the soundtrack issued.Amond the songs issued were: You Stepped Out of a Dream (Nacio Herb Brown/Gus Kahn), I’m Always Chasing Rainbows (Harry Carroll/Joseph McCarthy), Too Beautiful to Last (Marty Symes/Ruth Lowe) and Minnie…

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