?Thanks for the Memory.? ?Swinging on a Star.? ?The Way You Look Tonight.? Three great and popular standards of the American songbook?and all three won Oscars for best song. But who wrote these songs? What movies were they written for? Which stars introduced them? In the 25 years covered by this fascinating book, 160 songs were nominated for Academy Awards. Some are well known, but many are nearly forgotten. They deserve more lasting recognition. Best Songs of the Movies tells the stories behind all these songs, year by year. After announcing the nominated songs, the text describes the way...
?Thanks for the Memory.? ?Swinging on a Star.? ?The Way You Look Tonight.? Three great and popular standards of the American songbook?and all three wo...