" . . . WHY did she have to barge into mine?!" laments Rick Liszt as Clara Shoe-Mann drags her sad sack spouse into Rick's, his cozy music saloon. Clara is a notorious keyboard tease, luring Joe Bronze to compose his noted lullaby as just one of his endless baby-sitting chores for her octet (!) of largely neglected kids. Too prudish to improvise a nursing sling to keep her offspring fed during her piano recitals, Clara is no WOMAN OF THE YEAR. Instead, she comes off as more of a deluded KEEPER OF THE FLAME, obsessed with flogging her demented marital misfire's dead horse cart load of keyboard ditties. If you can picture the MAMA MIA pop group consisting of three dudes and a doll, you'll get a pretty good idea of SONG OF LOVE's plot. Though Clara may have known a little about "birthing babies," she's all thumbs when it comes to plucking chickens. Even after her hens come home to roost, Mrs. Shoe-Mann remains too sluggish to open her drapes. What will YOU say when you hear her perform this out-of-key SONG OF LOVE?
Review of Song of Love
Song of Love
(1947)
"Of all the pinking, plunking, tinkling, dunking piano bars dotting this Planet . . ."
5 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers