Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Gorgeous Song, Gorgeous People, Gorgeous Movie

It was a delight to finally watch this movie, Fire Over England, after years of looking for a copy of it back in Iran. Yesterday, I accidentally discovered it on:

http://stage6.divx.com/Viaggio-nel-cinema-internazionale/video/1714571/Fire-over-England-(1937)---VO

Here is an excerpt where Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier sing a beautiful Renaissance song, "The Spanish Lady's Love".

In this movie only the first part is really sung, a bit altered, though:

WILL you hear a Spanish lady
How she woo’d an English man?
Garments gay and rich as may be,
Decked with jewels, she had on;
Of a comely countenance and grace was she,
And by birth and parentage of high degree.


... Don't forget to pause the autoplay background song ("Nuclear Song of the Week" on the right margin) before playing this video. Hope you enjoy:


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