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somecamerunning.typepad.com - 4/22/2009
Images of the day, 4/22/09
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Above, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong trading fours in Howard Hawks' 1948 A Song Is Born . By Robin Wood's lights, this is a "vastly inferior" remake of Hawks' own 1941 Ball of Fire ; asked by Joseph McBride why he made the picture (for producer Samuel Goldwyn), Hawks himself ...
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