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"On the Good Ship Lollipop" is a song composed by Richard A. Whiting with lyrics by Sidney Clare. It was the signature song of child actress Shirley Temple. Temple first sang it in the 1934 film, Bright Eyes. In the song, the "Good Ship Lollipop" travels to a candy land.
For other songs with this title, see Goodnight My Love (disambiguation) " Goodnight My Love " is a popular song with music by Harry Revel and lyrics by Mack Gordon, published in 1936. It was incorporated in the 1936 movie Stowaway, where it is sung first by Shirley Temple and later by Alice Faye.
11 feb 2014 · Temple’s best known songs are “On the Good Ship Lollipop” from 1934’s “Bright Eyes,” and “Animal Crackers in My Soup” from 1935’s “Curly Top,” but her films were filled with ...
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1915–1933: Early life and career beginnings
Alice Jeanne Leppert was born on May 5, 1915, in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, the daughter of Alice (née Moffit), who worked for the Mirror Chocolate Company, and Charles Leppert, a police officer. She had an older brother, Charles. Faye was raised an Episcopalian. Faye's entertainment career began in vaudeville as a chorus girl. She failed an audition for the Earl Carroll Vanities when she was found to be too young. She then moved to Broadway and secured a featured role in the 1931 edition of...
1934–1938: Early work
Faye gained her first major film break in 1934, when Lilian Harvey abandoned the lead role in a film version of George White's Scandals (1934 film), in which Vallee was also to appear. Hired first to perform a musical number with Vallee, Faye ended up as the female lead. She became a popular film star for audiences of the 1930s, particularly when Fox production head Darryl F. Zanuck made her his protégée. He softened Faye from a wisecracking showgirl to a youthful, and yet somewhat motherly f...
1939–1940
By 1939, Faye was named one of the top-10 box-office draws in Hollywood. That year, she made Rose of Washington Square with Tyrone Power. Although a big hit, the film was supposedly based on the real life of comedian Fanny Brice, who sued Fox for stealing her story. Because of her bankable status, Fox occasionally placed Faye in films more for the sake of making money than showcasing Faye's talents. Films such as Tail Spin and Barricade(both 1939) were more dramatic than regular Faye films, a...
As Faye's star continued to ascend during the war years, family life became more important to her, especially with the arrival of a second daughter, Phyllis. After her birth, Faye signed a new contract with Fox to make only one picture a year, with the option of a second one, to give Faye a chance to spend more time with her family. Her second preg...
Faye's first marriage, to Tony Martin in 1937, ended in divorce in 1940; both had busy careers that monopolized most of their time, leaving few opportunities for togetherness. In May 1941, she married bandleader Phil Harris. Their marriage, one of the most successful in Hollywood, became a plotline in the hit radio comedy, The Jack Benny Program, w...
She supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election and Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election. Faye and Harris continued various projects, individually and together, for the rest of their lives. In 1974, Faye made a return to Broadway after 43 years in a revival of Good News, with her old Fox par...
Her voice, The New York Times wrote in her obituary, was "inviting". Irving Berlin was once quoted as saying that he would choose Faye over any other singer to introduce his songs, and George Gershwin and Cole Porter called her the "best female singer in Hollywood in 1937". During her years as a musical superstar (from the 1930s to the early 1940s)...
Alice Faye at IMDbAlice Faye at the Internet Broadway DatabaseAlice Faye at Playbill Vault (archive)22 giu 2023 · Fresh from the release of her latest single Nowhere To Go, and ahead of her slot on our Kelburn Garden Party stage, we shine a spotlight on Alice Faye.
16 ott 2002 · Portrait of a private woman: the real Alice Faye. Alice Faye, who died at 83 in 1998, was a cherished star of Hollywood musicals in the late 1930s and early ‘40s who stayed in the public...
10 feb 2024 · Significato di On the Good Ship Lollipop di Shirley Temple Sono certo che molti di voi ricordano la canzone “On the Good Ship Lollipop”, interpretata dalla celebre Shirley Temple. Questa melodia stravagante e spensierata è diventata un emblema dell’infanzia e dell’innocenza, incantando generazioni di spettatori di tutte le età.
