Every Monday on Jazz Radio 94.1fm I run a Movie Quiz which generally features a piece of movie music or film score. Last week I featured Bernard Hermann's brilliant jazz theme from Taxi Driver but there has been a very diverse selection of music with close to 100 quizzes since the quiz started.

 

I usually try to ensure that the music features is Jazz or Swing related so the task of coming up with a new quiz each week is not always easy.

 

I am open to suggestions. I am looking for recognizable music with a jazz or swing theme from any movies at all that I can use for the quiz. 

 

Let me know what you think would work in well for the quiz and what you think are some of the greatest movie themes.

 Todays Movie Quiz at 1:15pm on my radio programme on Jazz Radio 94.1fm will feature one of the finest musicals of the 60s - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. I will be playing a couple of the great songs from the movie.

 

Read my review of the movie here

 

My Movie Quiz at 1:15pm New Years Eve on Jazz Radio 94.1fm ..........

 

 

This week we are giving away a Django Rheinhardt CD entitled Pioneer of Jazz Guitar coming to you courtesy of my website www.moviemem.com where you will find a great selection of movie memorabilia and you can see some of the posters on display at the Sanctuary Cove Antique Gallery just down the road from our studios here at 94.1fm. But as it’s the last show for the year I will be adding a double pass to the Village Theatre at Sanctuary Cove to see a movie of your choice.

 

Now to this week’s question. The next track I am about to play is from one of the all time great musicals, My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. This is one of the great songs from the movie sung by the man who was nominated for best supporting actor. To win this weeks great prize all you need to do is phone us here at 94.1fm and tell me the name of the actor who sang this next track…

 

WITH A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK

 

Congratulations to …………..for the correct answer ......

 

And a little about the film…..

 

My Fair Lady was loosely based on Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw with music by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe with adaptation from Andre Previn. It picked up 8 Oscars including Best Picture.

 

You probably know by now that my background is in movie memorabilia and about 10 years ago I acquired the memorabilia from the estate of Stanley Holloway and it included a letter from George Cukor, the director of My Fair Lady. The letter went into some detail of how the film was progressing and asked Stanley Holloway to help Audrey Hepburn with her cockney accent. Its one of my prize possessions.

 

Stanley Holloway was perfect as Alfred Dolittle but he was only a last minute choice. James Cagney had been originally given the role but had to pull out at the last minute. Cary Grant was offered the role of Henry Higgins but he told Jack L Warner that not only would he not play Henry Higgins, but if Rex Harrison was not cast in the role, he wouldn't even go see the picture.

 

Jack Warner originally wanted Julie Andrews to play the lead but settled for Audrey Hepburn who's singing was actually dubbed by Marnie Nixon

 

My Fair Lady – one of the all time great musicals. We’ll have another movie quiz next week on Jazz Radio 94.1fm.

 

Here is part of the letter from George Cukor to Jack L. Warner...........

 

 

 

On my Radio Programme tomorrow I will be featuring the music of Dave Grusin one of the most prolific composers of Movie and TV themes and winner many awards including Oscars and Grammy's.

 

Some of his film scores include:

 

'The Graduate'

'The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter'
'Three Days Of The Condor'

'Heaven Can Wait', (1979)
'The Champ', (1980)

'On Golden Pond', (1982)

'Tootsie' (1983)

The Firm with Tom Cruise.

 

and an Academy Award for his music in

'The Milagro Beanfield Affair' (1988)

He was the conductor for The Andy Williams Show (1963-1965) and other TV credits include Baretta (1975), Columbo - Prescription: Murder (1968), It Takes a Thief (1968), and The Wild Wild West (1965). "St. Elsewhere" (1982) One Life to Live (1968).

 

Dave Grusin has released a number of albums/CDs in the Smooth Contemporary Jazz category and all feature his unique and distinctive style of piano playing.

 

I will be playing some of his music between 1 and 2pm tomorrow and The Movie Quiz at 1:15pm will feature a question on his music with a prize of a Triple CD Legends of Jazz.

 

Tune in to Jazz Radio 94.1fm between 12 and 3pm to hear my programme.

 

 

 

 On my radio programme tomorrow between 12 and 3pm on 94.1fm I will be paying tribute to the music of Johnny Mercer, one of the most prolific of all the great songwriters and winner of four Academy Awards. He will also be the subject of my Movie Quiz at 1.15pm. Here is a sample of some of the music I will be playing....

 

 

I present a Jazz radio program every week on 94.1fm on the Gold Coast between 12 and 3pm. Featured at 1.15pm each week is the Movie Quiz giving listeners the chance to win a prize for being the first to correctly answer a movie related question.

 

This weeks quiz...

This week were giving away a wonderful Ella Fitzgerald CD entitled A Tisket A Tasket with 12 great tracks from one of the all time great singers. Our prize comes to you courtesy of my website www.moviemem.com where you will find a huge selection of movie memorabilia including original Jazz posters and profiles of many of the musicians that I present here on 94.1fm.

 

Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant starred in An Affair to Remember, 50 years ago almost to the day  back in 1957, one of the classic tear jerker romantic films. Despite being engaged to other people, they fall in love and both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. The film has been remade more than once and was the inspiration for a highly successful  film in 1993. To win this weeks prize all you need to do is phone us here at 94.1fm on 5577 9999 and tell us the name of the movie that was inspired by An Affair to Remember and starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

 

I will be playing the track:
An Affair to Remember by Vic Damone