TV Guide: Johnny Mercer

Listing: Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 18 06:00 PM TCM

Listing: Old Man Rhythm

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:45:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 11:45 PM TCM

Listing: Hollywood Hotel

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 08:00 PM TCM

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

TCM — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -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 12:00:00 -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 12:00:00 -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 12:00:00 -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) Hang On To Your Lids!

TCM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Travel montage to jazz band in a freight car, Priscilla Lane (as "Character"), Elia Kazan on clarinet, Jack Carson on trumpet, Richard Whorf on guitar, with Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "Hang On To Your Lids," from Blues in the Night, 1941.

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

TCM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -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 12:00:00 -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 12:00:00 -0500

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

Video: Frank Sinatra - One for My Baby (And One More For The Road)

The Insider — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Writer(s): johnny mercer/harold arlen Its quarter to three, Theres no one in the place cept you and me So set em up joe I got a little story I think you oughtta know Were drinking my friend To the end of a brief episode So make it one for my baby And one more for the road I know the routine Put another nickel in that there machine Im feeling so bad Wont you make the music easy and sad I could tell you a lot But you gotta to be true to your code So make it one for my baby And one more for the road Youd never know it But buddy Im a kind of poet And Ive got a lot of things I wanna say And if Im gloomy, please listen to me Till its all, all talked away Well, thats how it goes And joe I know youre gettin anxious to close So thanks for the cheer I hope you didnt mind My bending your ear But this torch that I found Its gotta be drowned Or it soon might explode So make it one for my baby And one more for the road

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

TCM — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:00:00 -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) Put 'Em Back the Way They Was

TCM — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -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: Li'l Abner -- (Movie Clip) Opening, A Typical Day

TCM — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -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) The Very Best of Hands

TCM — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Abner (Peter Palmer) and Marryin' Sam (Stubby Kaye) lead the citizens of Dogpatch in Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul's "The Country's in the Very Best of Hands" in Li'l Abner, 1959.

Video: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers -- (Movie Clip) Sobbin' Women

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Adam (Howard Keel) counsels his brothers with an improbable historical reference via Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer's "Sobbin' Women," in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954.

Video: Young at Heart -- (Movie Clip) One for My Baby

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Lounge singer Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) performs the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer standard "One for My Baby" for Laurie (Doris Day) and the dinner crowd in Young at Heart, 1955.

Video: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers -- (Movie Clip) Bless Your Beautiful Hide

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Adam (Howard Keel) expresses some romantic aspirations with Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer's "Bless Your Beautiful Hide," in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954.