doris day the earth stood still

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:58 pm

Songs that mention movie stars from the fifties.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:27 pm

Not sure if these exactly count:

Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

Buddy Holly (okay, musician, not movie star) - Weezer

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:42 pm

Okay, this one seems tailor made for me...

The Right Profile/The Clash (Monty Clift)
That'll Be the Day/Buddy Holly (well, it quotes John Wayne from "The Searchers")
Gone Too Soon/Neil Diamond -- (name check extravaganza pre the even sillier "We Didn't Start the Fire", probably mentions several, or at least James Dean, but I can't be sure")
James Dean -- The Eagles
Bela Lugosi's Dead/That Goth Band I've Blocked from my Mind
Beware of the Blob/the four blobs (the blob is the star of the movie!)

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:43 pm

spooky girlfriend wrote:Not sure if these exactly count:

Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

Buddy Holly (okay, musician, not movie star) - Weezer

Bette definitely counts, as she did most of her best work in the fifties! (All About Eve, to start with)

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Thu May 13, 2004 2:58 pm

Monty Got a Raw Deal - REM (Montgomery Clift)

That awful song called Key Largo by somebody that mentions Bogey and Bacall

Message of Love - The Pretenders (Bridget Bardot)

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Thu May 13, 2004 3:53 pm

Psychedelic Furs - We Love You (Sophia Loren, Bridget Bardot)
MDC Stains - John Wayne Was A Nazi
Cramps - Bend Over I'll Drive (Jayne Mansfield, Ernie Kovacs)
Jonathan Richman - Give Paris One More Chance (Charles Aznavour)

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Thu May 13, 2004 4:36 pm

pophead2k wrote: That awful song called Key Largo by somebody that mentions Bogey and Bacall

that was bertie "i"m divorced and in jail again" higgins.

there is a million of em'. this thread should flourish. john wayne--"incommunicado" by jimmy buffett.

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Thu May 13, 2004 5:26 pm

"Stupid Cooper" Mandy Moore
"Manic Monroe" Bangles
"Glad to be Gable" Tom Robinson Band
" A Brando New Day" Lloyd Cole
"Knock on (Natalie) Wood" Amy Stewart

Pov · Post by **Pov** » Thu May 13, 2004 5:29 pm

"Cadillac Ranch" by Bruce Springsteen (James Dean in that Mecury '49).
"Ingrid Bergman" - Written by Woody Guthrie, performed by Billy Bragg and Wilco.

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Thu May 13, 2004 5:46 pm

JM are you taking the piss with you Des'ree signature? "Life" is one of the most entertainingly fatuous songs ever.

DrJ

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Thu May 13, 2004 5:47 pm

more schlock

candle in the wind
look at me i'm sandra dee--grease
and rock on by david essex

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Thu May 13, 2004 6:15 pm

I'm not sure what decade Marlene Dietrich was in the movies (I guess I could have used the Internet), but I've always liked 'Marlene on the Wall'

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Fri May 14, 2004 1:36 am

A quick look at the IMDB reveals that, as I suspected, Marlene, like Bette Davis, did some of her great work in the fifites with the best directors of the day, specifically "Rancho Notorious" for Fritz Lang, "Touch of Evil" for Orson Welles (where she gets to deliver the closing benediction, "What can you say about a man...") and, my personal favorite, "Witness for the Prosecution" for Billy Wilder. Yep, definitely a fifties movie star, even if the insane glamor of his Josep von Sternberg movies (and, if you haven't seen "The Scarlet Empress", you don't know what insane glamor is) was behind her.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri May 14, 2004 4:30 am

You've all missed what I consider to be the GREATEST LYRIC EVER:

"You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day" by Wham from Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Fri May 14, 2004 6:15 am

DrJ wrote:JM are you taking the piss with you Des'ree signature? "Life" is one of the most entertainingly fatuous songs ever.

DrJ

Sure was DrJ!!

I loved the bad lyrics thread we had a while back...we should bring it back asap

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Fri May 14, 2004 12:51 pm

Kirsty Mc - There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Fri May 14, 2004 12:57 pm

John Wayne Big Leggy

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sat May 15, 2004 4:12 am

Springsteen - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City "I could walk like Brando right into the sun, then dance just like a casanova..."
EC - Complicated Shadows "Like a John Ford film"
Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding "dies like Cagney, like every hero's dream.."
Tom Wait's - Going Out West. "'cos Tony Franciosa used to date my Ma"
Dylan "When Quinn The eskimo (Anthony Quinn) gets here, everybody's going to jump for joy!"

But it's time to pull out the winner, not all 50's but a song that gets some points because it highlights everything that is wanky about Madonna - Vogue:

"...Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers, dance on air

They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katharine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you..."

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Sat May 15, 2004 1:23 pm

John Prine - Picture Show "John Garfield in the afternoon/Montgomery Clift at night" and "James Dean went out to Hollywood/Put his picture in a picture show"

Bob Dylan - Brownsville Girl.....the song's entire plot revolves around Bob REALLY liking The Gunfighter, a fine Gregory Peck western from the 1950's.