Harry Revel - Turner Classic Movies

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Over the duration of his Hollywood career, Harry Revel produced music for multiple Hollywood productions. Revel began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like "Sitting Pretty" (1933) with Jack Oakie, the W C Fields comedy "The Old-Fashioned Way" (1934) and the Bing Crosby comedic adaptation "We're Not Dressing" (1934). His music also appeared in the musical comed...

Filmography

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Collegiate (1935)

Singing instructor

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Minstrel Man (1944)

Associate Producer

The Highwaymen (2019)

First Man (2018)

The Visit (2015)

Photos & Videos

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Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought We Were Wowing Them!

Myra Breckinridge (1970) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-P-P-Y

Biography

Over the duration of his Hollywood career, Harry Revel produced music for multiple Hollywood productions. Revel began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like "Sitting Pretty" (1933) with Jack Oakie, the W C Fields comedy "The Old-Fashioned Way" (1934) and the Bing Crosby comedic adaptation "We're Not Dressing" (1934). His music also appeared in the musical comedy "She Loves Me Not" (1934) with Bing Crosby, "Now and Forever" (1934) and "College Rhythm" (1934). In the thirties, Revel's music continued to appear on the silver screen, including in films like the Walter Winchell comedy sequel "Love and Hisses" (1937), "This Is My Affair" (1937) and "Wake Up and Live" (1937). His work was also in the musical comedy "Josette" (1938) with Don Ameche. Revel was nominated for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "The Mayor of 44th Street" in 1942 as well as for a Music (Song) Academy Award for "Minstrel Man" in 1944. Revel's music was also featured in the Paul Frees animated motion picture "The Puppetoon Movie" (1987), the horror film "Lady in White" (1988) with Katherine Helmond and the musical drama "Swing Kids" (1993) with Robert Sean Leonard. His music was also featured in the comedy "Picture Perfect" (1997) with Jennifer Aniston and "Election" (1999) with Matthew Broderick. Revel's music was most recently featured in the Olivia DeJonge horror flick "The Visit" (2015).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Collegiate (1935)

Singing instructor

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Producer (Feature Film)

Minstrel Man (1944)

Associate Producer

Music (Feature Film)

The Highwaymen (2019)

First Man (2018)

The Visit (2015)

Precious (2009)

The Machinist (2004)

Election (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

The Green Mile (1999)

Picture Perfect (1997)

Song ("There'S A Lull In My Life")

Swing Kids (1993)

Lady in White (1988)

The Puppetoon Movie (1987)

Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

Half Naked (1957)

The Stooge (1953)

Scared Stiff (1953)

The Half-Breed (1952)

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Million Dollar Pursuit (1951)

Not Wanted (1949)

Return of the Bad Men (1948)

It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

The Dolly Sisters (1945)

The Stork Club (1945)

I'll Tell the World (1945)

Radio Stars on Parade (1945)

I'll Remember April (1945)

Ghost Catchers (1944)

The National Barn Dance (1944)

Minstrel Man (1944)

Mountain Rhythm (1943)

We've Never Been Licked (1943)

Hit the Ice (1943)

It Ain't Hay (1943)

Klondike Kate (1943)

Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)

Joan of Ozark (1942)

The Big Street (1942)

Call Out the Marines (1942)

Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Here We Go Again (1942)

The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)

Moonlight Masquerade (1942)

Sing Your Worries Away (1942)

Dance Hall (1941)

Moon over Burma (1940)

Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

The Rains Came (1939)

Rose of Washington Square (1939)

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)

Tail Spin (1939)

My Lucky Star (1938)

In Old Chicago (1938)

Hold That Co-Ed (1938)

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Thanks for Everything (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Love and Hisses (1937)

This Is My Affair (1937)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

Thin Ice (1937)

Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)

Fifty Roads to Town (1937)

Wake Up and Live (1937)

You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

Everybody Dance (1937)

Head over Heels in Love (1937)

Florida Special (1936)

Song of the Gringo (1936)

Three Cheers for Love (1936)

Palm Springs (1936)

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Stowaway (1936)

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

Collegiate (1935)

Love in Bloom (1935)

Two for Tonight (1935)

Paris in Spring (1935)

Stolen Harmony (1935)

Now and Forever (1934)

Shoot the Works (1934)

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

College Rhythm (1934)

Here Comes the Groom (1934)

We're Not Dressing (1934)

She Loves Me Not (1934)

Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

White Woman (1933)

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Music (Special)

The Creative Spirit (1992)

Life Events

Videos

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought We Were Wowing Them! At a radio audition, Shirley Temple as Rebecca and William Demarest as uncle Harry, looking to impress assistant Orville (Jack Haley), sponsor Bartlett (Paul Harvey) and ad-man Kent (Randolph Scott) with a tune by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938.

Myra Breckinridge (1970) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-P-P-Y Following the opening in which Rex Reed, as critic “Myron” Breckinridge got a sex-change operation, Shirley Temple’s song (from Stowaway, 1937, by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon) accompanies the introduction of Raquel Welch as the title character (we’re supposed to understand that Rex Reed now exists only as her alter-ego), with a creditable dance routine on Hollywood then Sunset Blvd., in Myra Breckinridge, 1970, from the Gore Vidal novel.

Pennies From Heaven (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Ever See A Dream, Walking? Working his east-central Illinois sheet-music sales territory, Arthur (Steve Martin) haggles with shopkeeper Barrett (Raleigh Bond) then sees Eileen (Bernadette Peters) for the first time, miming the Bing Crosby recording of the song by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, in Pennies From Heaven, 1981.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Goodnight, My Love Seems like the screenwriters maybe gave up, admitting that Alice Faye's solo ballad, by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, just doesn't work with the story, as she fends off shipboard Romeo Robert Young, in the Shirley Temple vehicle Stowaway, 1936.

Stowaway (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta S-M-I-L-E At port in Hong Kong, enjoying a show with friends Tommy and Susan (Robert Young, Alice Faye), who are not (yet) a couple, orphan Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple, with a song by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon) reveals hidden talents, with impressions, in 20th Century-Fox's Stowaway, 1936.

Gay Divorcee, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Let's K-nock K-nees Holy cow, that blonde is 17-year old Betty Grable, all-but soliciting inept American lawyer Egbert (Edward Everett Horton), at an English resort, cueing a novelty number to the song by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, plus a weak explanation for pal Fred Astaire, in The Gay Divorcee, 1934.

Gay Divorcee, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Let It Bother You After a musical opening introducing the Mack Gordon and Harry Revel original song, pals Guy and Egbert (Fred Astaire, Edward Everett Horton) run into trouble at a Paris nightspot, Paul Porcasi the owner, in The Gay Divorceè, 1934, the first picture in which Astaire and Ginger Rogers shared top billing.

Stooge, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) See You In Church The opening to the the fifth Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis vehicle introduces only Dean, as singer Bill, on the phone with his bride-to-be Mary (Polly Bergen) herself a performer, with just a piece of a song by Harry Revel and mack Gordon, in The Stooge, 1952.

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Oh, My Goodness Shirley Temple (as "Barbara Barry") animates her dolls, with Mack Gordon and Harry Revel's Oh, My Goodness, her first number in Poor Little Rich Girl, 1936.

Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Dolan, Dolan And Dolan Happily scamming as the daughter of Jerry (Alice Faye) and Jimmy (Jack Haley) at an audition, Barbara (Shirley Temple) leads in But Definitely by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, in Poor Little Rich Girl, 1936.

Four Jacks And A Jill -- (Movie Clip) I'm In Good Shape Musical sendoff from his room-and-band-mates, Nifty (Ray Bolger) performs I'm In Good Shape by Mort Greene and Harry Revel, then meets crafty Karanina (Anne Shirley), early in RKO's Four Jacks And A Jill, 1942.

Four Jacks And A Jill -- (Movie Clip) Wherever You Are Karenina (Anne Shirley), still posing as the chanteuse to mysterious King Stephan, performs Wherever You Are, by Mort Greene and Harry Revel, with Nifty (Ray Bolger), after which they fight, in Four Jacks And A Jill, 1942.

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