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  • #111194
    David Ice
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    LOL!

    #111195
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Anita Louise did indeed play the harp.

    #111196
    sherry-lenox
    Participant

    I just spent about 20 minutes with google and can’t find any reference other than “two children” of

    #111197
    David Ice
    Participant

    Hi Sam,

    BTW, thank you for your brilliant article in the last AHS Journal.

    #111198

    “The Other Sister” has a wedding harpist

    Serendipidy has a wedding harpist

    Annie – Grace plays the harp (on the wrong side) during “We’ve Got Annie”

    There also is a Shirly Temple movie, when she was a young adult where the love interest’s girl friend is a harpist and performs for a garden full of listeners

    The Kay Kendall/ Yul Brenner movie – “One More Time with Feeling” is a hoot!

    #111199
    unknown-user
    Participant

    Does anyone know where Harpo’s harp is now? In a museum or something?

    –Tom
    http://GigSpeak.com

    #111200
    john-strand
    Participant

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8158827649224001062&q=female+harpist&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

    here is a clip from Our Man Flint – the bad lady takes the place of the harpist in mid song, and uses a string a la Harpo to shoot a poisoned needle at someone!!!! Oh, well, it is in color and the first harpist looks like she is actually playing – maybe some of you will recognize her – looks a bit like Gayle Levant to me – – –

    #111201
    David Ice
    Participant

    Thanks John!

    #111202
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    That’s funny, David. I looked at it and thought, “Oh yes, I’ve seen that before–it must have been in one David Ice’s presentations. ” 😉

    #111203
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thank you David, for your very kind words about the AHJ article.

    #111204
    john-strand
    Participant

    How about Music For Millions – 1944?

    #111205
    paul-wren
    Participant

    Isn’t there a scene in The Human Comedy where Fay Bainter plays a harp in her home?

    #111206
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    Yes, it’s such a hoot. A humble little working class cottage and a big fancy style 11 (I think–something shiny, anyway). She’s always talking to the kids through the strings and there’s a voiceover i one scene about thanking God for various things, including “the harp in the parlor.”

    #111207
    catherine-rogers
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    I don’t remember now where I read this, but I believe his widow Susan donated two of his harps to a conservatory in Israel. Of course he probably had many other instruments over the course of his career.

    #111208
    Kathleen Clark
    Participant

    Hey, David,

    I just saw Paul Baker playing harp live, Godefroid’s “Romance Without Words (Bois Solitaire)” in the 1990 movie “Framed” starring Jeff Goldblum and Kristin Scott Thomas. He’s playing at an outdoor engagement party and there are a couple of closeups of him while he is playing it which is really cool. On the DVD it is in Chapter 7, “Wealth.” It’s sort of funny how they lead up to it. Jeff and his sidekick are crashing the party through bushes and the sidekick is ranting on about “…not to harp on this…” and then they hear the harp through the bushes… “Hey, do you hear a HARP?”

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