The Best Things in Life Are Free. 1956
The Best Things in Life Are Free is a 1956 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey and Ernest Borgnine as the real-life songwriting team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson of the late 1920s and early 1930s; and Sheree North as Kitty Kane, a singer (possibly based on Helen Kane).
In 1957, the year after the film was released, it received an Oscar nomination for Lionel Newman in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Gordon MacRae as Buddy DeSylva
Dan Dailey as Ray Henderson
Ernest Borgnine as Lew Brown
Sheree North as Kitty Kane
Tommy Noonan as Carl Frisbee
Murvyn Vye as Manny Costain
Phyllis Avery as Maggie Henderson
Larry Keating as Winfield Sheehan
Tony Galento as Fingers
Norman Brooks as Al Jolson
Jacques d’Amboise as Specialty dancer
Roxanne Arlen as Perky Nichols
Byron Palmer as Hollywood star
Songs
“Lucky Day”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva Sung by Dan Dailey
“If I Had a Talking Picture of You”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Byron Palmer
“Here Am I, Broken Hearted
“Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Gordon MacRae
“Button up Your Overcoat”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Dan Dailey and Gordon MacRae
“Good News”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Gordon MacRae
“You’re the Cream in My Coffee”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Dan Dailey
“The Best Things in Life Are Free”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Sheree North (dubbed by Eileen Wilson)
“Lucky in Love”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Gordon MacRae
“Black Bottom”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaDanced by Sheree North and Jacques d’Amboise
“Birth of the Blues”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaDanced by Sheree North and Jacques d’Amboise
“Sonny Boy”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaSung by Norman Brooks
“Follow Thru”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva
“One More Time”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva
“Thank Your Father”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva”This Is the Missus
“Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown
“Together”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylvaIt All Depends on You
“Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva”You Try Somebody Else (We’ll Be Back Together Again)
“Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva
“Without Love”Music by Ray HendersonLyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva
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