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[[Image:Harvey_Kenneth_Greenwich_Village.jpg|right|300px]]Classical composer wanna-be from the 1944 film ''Greenich Village''.
 
[[Image:Harvey_Kenneth_Greenwich_Village.jpg|right|300px]]Classical composer wanna-be from the 1944 film ''Greenich Village''.
  
Set in 1922 New York City, Harvey arrives from Wichita, Kansas where he was a professor of music, hoping to publish his concerto.
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Set in 1922 New York City, Harvey arrives from Wichita, Kansas where he was a professor of music, hoping to show his concerto to other classical composer [[Kavosky]] and get it published.
  
He meets speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara, who hopes to put on a broadway show. Ken's affairs take a turn for the better when he falls for singer [[Bonnie Watson]]. But while he labors on orchestration, O'Mara is surreptitiously adapting his tunes to the Greenwich Village Gaieties.
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Harvey runs afoul of speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara (William Bendix), who wants to put on a Broadway-type revue. Harvey falls for one of O'Mara's singers, [[Bonnie Watson]] (Vivian Blaine) and O'Mara steals his tunes for his "Greenwich Village Gaieties" show.
  
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Harvey's concerto is based on the melody of a real 1920s hit, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whispering_(song) Whispering]." O'Mara rewrites it into the hit song.
  
 
Played by Don Ameche.
 
Played by Don Ameche.
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*[[Kavosky]]
 
*[[Kavosky]]
 
*[[Bonnie Watson]]
 
*[[Bonnie Watson]]
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*[[Princess Querida O'Toole]]
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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*https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036881/reference
 
*https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036881/reference
 
*https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/musical/greenwich-village-20th-century-fox-1944-insert-14-x-36-aspiring-songwriter-don-ameche-works-with-singer-vivian-blai/a/56034-25081.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515
 
*https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/musical/greenwich-village-20th-century-fox-1944-insert-14-x-36-aspiring-songwriter-don-ameche-works-with-singer-vivian-blai/a/56034-25081.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whispering_(song)
  
 
[[Category:1944|Harvey, Kenneth]]
 
[[Category:1944|Harvey, Kenneth]]
 
[[Category:Films|Harvey, Kenneth]]
 
[[Category:Films|Harvey, Kenneth]]
 
[[Category:Fictional composers|Harvey, Kenneth]]
 
[[Category:Fictional composers|Harvey, Kenneth]]

Revision as of 12:27, 25 May 2022

Harvey Kenneth Greenwich Village.jpg

Classical composer wanna-be from the 1944 film Greenich Village.

Set in 1922 New York City, Harvey arrives from Wichita, Kansas where he was a professor of music, hoping to show his concerto to other classical composer Kavosky and get it published.

Harvey runs afoul of speakeasy owner Danny O'Mara (William Bendix), who wants to put on a Broadway-type revue. Harvey falls for one of O'Mara's singers, Bonnie Watson (Vivian Blaine) and O'Mara steals his tunes for his "Greenwich Village Gaieties" show.

Harvey's concerto is based on the melody of a real 1920s hit, "Whispering." O'Mara rewrites it into the hit song.

Played by Don Ameche.

See also

External Links