January 16 movie: Till the Clouds Roll By. Biopic on Jerome Kern. It was research for a special Jerome Kern tribute I'm doing this Sunday. What I learned from this movie was that Jerome Kern had an uneventful life. The entire plot focused on Kern's fictitious best friend (an arranger played by Van Heflin) and the friend's fictitious daughter. The movie contained almost no drama related to Kern's actual life. It was really kind of strange.
Robert Walker, an actor I love, played Kern. For once he had a normal adult voice, not the squeaky adolescent voice he used in so many movies. I wonder if the voice in this movie was Walker's real voice? Walker played so many awkward kids that it was a treat to see him play a mature man, even without that much to do.
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