Young Man with a Horn
Young Man with a Horn ★★★ 1950
Dorothy Baker's novel, which was loosely based on the life of jazz immortal Bix Beiderbecke, was even more loosely adapted for this film, featuring Kirk as an angst-ridden trumpeter who can't seem to hit that mystical “high note.” ♫The Very Thought of You; I May be Wrong; The Man I Love; Too Marvelous for Words; With a Song in My Heart; Pretty Baby; I Only Have Eyes for You; Limehouse Blues; Melancholy Rhapsody. 112m/B VHS, DVD . Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall, Hoagy Carmichael; D: Michael Curtiz.
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