Help please! With the name of a picture.

[Donald Binks]

Do you have those moments when you can remember a scene in a picture but for the life of you, just can't remember the bally name of the thing? One also has a vague idea of who was in it, but one can't be too sure... it's exasperating.

My particular dilemma concerns a picture made, I feel sure, in the 1970's and which I think I mistakenly thought Burt Lancaster could have been wandering around in.

The scene in it I distinctly remember is one set inside a cinema in the 1920's or '30's, where a lady organist is up playing and singing "Button Up Your Overcoat".

I know it's not much to go on, but if there is a super sleuth out there, I should be most indebted to you, for you will put me out of my misery.

I thank you for your attention.

[Rick Lanham]

You might want to look at this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Up_Your_Overcoat" target="_blank" target="_blank

Rick

[wingate]

It is the 1974 version of The Front Page.

[Donald Binks]

It is the 1974 version of The Front Page.

Oh! You Bobby Dazzler! Thanks a million. Not remembering the title has been driving me nuts!

[earlytalkiebuffRob]

It is the 1974 version of The Front Page.

Which also has a nod to the 1931 version by featuring a cinema showing ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT...

[Marr&Colton]

This piqued my interest, being a theatre organ and old theatre fan. I ordered THE FRONT PAGE (1974) from the library and
went to the sequence mentioned and have the following to report:

1. This sequence was filmed at the wonderful, restored and still operating ORPHEUM THEATRE in downtown Los Angeles.

2. Susan Sarandon is obviously not playing the "Mighty Wurlitzer" but the music is definitely from a theatre pipe organ,
probably recorded at the theatre with their original 3 manual 13 rank, (or sets of pipes) Wurlitzer.

3. The song-slides and newsreel excerpts were great fun reflecting on everyday theatre policy of the 1920s.

Thanks, Donald, for bringing this to our attention!

[Donald Binks]

This piqued my interest, being a theatre organ and old theatre fan. I ordered THE FRONT PAGE (1974) from the library and
went to the sequence mentioned and have the following to report:

1. This sequence was filmed at the wonderful, restored and still operating ORPHEUM THEATRE in downtown Los Angeles.

2. Susan Sarandon is obviously not playing the "Mighty Wurlitzer" but the music is definitely from a theatre pipe organ,
probably recorded at the theatre with their original 3 manual 13 rank, (or sets of pipes) Wurlitzer.

3. The song-slides and newsreel excerpts were great fun reflecting on everyday theatre policy of the 1920s.

Thanks, Donald, for bringing this to our attention!

Thanks M & C for the fact sheet. You are speaking to another cinema organ aficionado! I always think a large cinema lacks a soul without one of these wonderful instruments.

There are some more pictures with them featured, and I hope to one day compile a list. Have you ever seen the beginning of "A Private Function"? It is hilarious.