Music in Film

Music in

Film

The Academy Award winning film Whiplash was shot in 19

days.

Did you know that Clint Eastwood is an

accomplished pianist? He’s also a skilled

composer, and composed the scores of several of the movies he directed, including Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River.

Double Take: In the movie sequel Pitch

Perfect 2, the musical camp the girls go to is the same camp from

the movie Meatballs.

In the movie Walk the Line, Joaquin Phoenix

and Reese Witherspoon performed all of the

songs themselves. They also learned to play

their instruments from scratch.

Duke Ellington composed the music for the classic film

Anatomy of a Murder and has a

cameo as "Pie-Eye."

Henry Mancini wrote "Moon River" specifically

for actress Audrey Hepburn.

He said that while many versions of the song have been done, he feels that

Audrey's (in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

was the best.

The soundtrack album "Awesome Mix, Vol. 1“ from Guardians of the

Galaxy reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart-the first film

soundtrack ever to reach number one without a single original song.

Filmmaker and jazz music aficionado Woody Allen began playing the

clarinet as a child; he took his stage name

from clarinetist Woody Herman.

While the film Singing in the Rain focuses on the point that Kathy’s voice

is dubbed over Lina Lamont's, what is not

told is that, ironically, in several songs, Debbie Reynolds is actually

dubbed by Betty Noyes.

“Crazy on You!”Acclaimed film

director Cameron Crowe was married to Heart’s Nancy

Wilson for 24 years.