TV Guide: Johnny Mercer

Video: Belle of New York, The -- ( Movie Clip) Seeing's Believing

TCM — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:57:36 -0500

Just a portion of Fred Astaire (as "Charlie Hill") walking on air, to Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer's "Seeing's Believing," from The Belle of New York, 1952, co-starring Vera-Ellen.

Video: Road House (1948) -- (Movie Clip) One For My Baby

TCM — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:04:29 -0500

Jefty (Richard Widmark) introduces the debut of Lily (Ida Lupino) but by no means of her song, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "One For My Baby," from Jean Negulesco's Road House, 1948.

Video: Top Banana (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Man of the Year

TCM — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:59:29 -0500

Johnny Mercer music and lyrics in the opening number, from Phil Silvers' movie adaptation of his hit Broadway show about the egotistical TV comic Jerry Biffle, Top Banana, 1954.

Video: Autumn Leaves -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Nat Cole

TCM — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:59:29 -0500

Opening credits with Nat "King" Cole singing his hit version title song by Jacques Prevert and Joseph Kosma, English lyric by Johnny Mercer, from Autumn Leaves, 1954, starring Joan Crawford.

Video: Breakfast at Tiffany's -- (Movie Clip) Moon River

TCM — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:57:58 -0500

Truly Audrey Hepburn (as "Holly Golightly") singing, the Oscar-winning tune written by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer to fit her voice, "Moon River," in Blake Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961.

Video: Hollywood Hotel -- (Movie Clip) Hooray For Hollywood!

TCM — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:46 -0500

Rousing opening number with the Benny Goodman band, Gene Krupa, Johnnie Davis (on trumpet) and Frances Langford (vocals) performing "Hooray for Hollywood" by Dick Whiting and Johnny Mercer, from Hollywood Hotel, 1938.

Video: Hollywood Hotel -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

TCM — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:46 -0500

Opening credits from Warner Bros.' Hollywood Hotel, 1938, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell and Lola and Rosemary Lane, songs by Dick Whiting and Johnny Mercer.

Video: Fleet's In, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Time Signal, Lamour

TCM — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:52 -0500

Dorothy Lamour plays the unattainable "Countess" performing "When You Hear the Time Signal," for the sailors (Eddie Bracken, et al), written by Johnny Mercer and director Victor Schertzinger, in The Fleet's In, 1942.

Video: Fleet's In, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Tangerine, Dorsey Band

TCM — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:52 -0500

World War II-era music video, as Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly front the Jimmy Dorsey band, performing "Tangerine" by Johnny Mercer and director Victor Schertzinger, in "The Fleet's In, 1942.

Video: Fleet's In, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Title Song

TCM — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:52 -0500

Rousing opening, with Eddie Bracken and William Holden in the ranks, as Barbara Britton performs the title song by Johnny Mercer and director Victor Schertzinger, in Paramount's The Fleet's In, 1942.

Video: Fleet's In, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Remember You

TCM — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:52 -0500

Johnny Dorsey's band features regular vocalist Helen O'Connell and guest Dorothy Lamour (as "The Countess") performing "I Remember You" by Johnny Mercer and director Victor Schertzinger in Paramount's The Fleet's In, 1942.

Video: Blues in the Night -- (Movie Clip) The Dream's On Me

TCM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:56:49 -0500

Priscilla Lane (as "Character") performing the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer standard "The Dream's On Me" leading into drama featuring Richard Whorf, Howard Da Silva and Wallace Ford, in Blues in the Night, 1941.

Video: Now Playing: Johnny Mercer -- (TCM Original) November 2009

TCM — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:32 -0500

Author Robert Kimball joins Robert Osborne to discuss his new book and TCM?s new documentary Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me, 2009, from the latest edition of TCM's "Now Playing: The Show."

Video: The Theater is Dead

The Daily Show — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:26:24 -0500

San Diego psychic Jenny Whisper channels the spirits of Johnny Mercer and John Wayne as she writes her Broadway melodies. (4:32)

Video: Real Life (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Something's Gotta Give

TCM — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:56:57 -0500

Comic turned documentarian Albert Brooks (as "himself") warms up a crowd of citizens in Phoenix with his modified version of Johnny Mercer's "Something's Gotta Give," in an early scene from Real Life, 1979.

Video: Li'l Abner -- (Movie Clip) Opening, A Typical Day

TCM — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:50:34 -0500

Actors including Carmen Alvarez, Stubby Kaye, Leslie Parrish, Bern Hoffman, and Peter Palmer introduce their characters with Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul's "It's A Typical Day" in the opening sequence from Li'l Abner, 1959.

Video: Li'l Abner -- (Movie Clip) Put 'Em Back the Way They Was

TCM — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:50:34 -0500

Look for Valerie Harper (Pink dress, feather hat) among the wives performing Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul's "Put 'Em Back the Way They Was" in Li'l Abner, 1959.

Video: Moon River

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Video: Autumn Leaves

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Video: Moon River

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