Another film query ~

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048303/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039567/

... am I getting warmer?

The first one NO, 'cause it wasn't a cartoon bimbo. The second one NO, as well, 'cause she would drive to the light to see her honey & then drive along the coast home to her husband. It was rather a melodrama about the mess she was in, in love with two men, & I can recall her driving along the coast with the top down on a bright, sunny day. I think I'll now check IMDB for Douglas Sirk films.

drdrd, are you sure it was an American film? Because something tells me it might be Italian. I doudt it's a Sirk because his 50s movies are sappier than what you described, I think. And he hasn't done anything in the 60s.
Please post it if/when you find it.

How about "A Summer Place" with Dorothy McGuire? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053320/

Something with Dorothy Malone is also ringing a bell.

While people are looking for obscure things: in the last few months I saw a book review about , sort of, the psychology and social context of music (in particular, talking about minor keys evoking certain feelings in certain cultures...or something like that); I cut the review out of the ny times or wsjournal or ,,who knows what..but lost it. I want to buy it, but can't find it. It is similar in some respects to that Musicophilia book by Sachs but I haven't been able to find it on amazon. anyone remember this review?

buyerbuyer, you might want to try Google Books. Just try to type in a sentence, see what happens.

bb, it's not certain cultures. minor keys are melancholy, gloomy and gentle. it's how they're different from major keys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2VMqQ6XnmI ?????

http://www.amazon.com/Harris-M-BergersStance-Expressive-Hardcover/dp/B0041SFXKY/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295645897&sr=1-5 ... am I getting warmer?

Is that why Barber's Adagio for Strings is tear-jerking? Some movie music also makes me instantly bawl, like things of Miklos Rozsa or Max Steiner.

lucille..I hear you. I vaguely remember the review talking about how that read of minor keys (gloomy) may have a cultural context (i.e. might not mean that in another culture). Not sure..I read it quickly with the idea of buying the book.

alan..that book is in the ballpark..The book I'm talking about was reviewed not long ago. In a major paper.