74-400: Stardust Memories is a 1980 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen , who stars alongside Charlotte Rampling , Jessica Harper , Marie-Christine Barrault , and Tony Roberts . Sharon Stone has a brief role, in her film debut. It follows a filmmaker who recalls his life and his loves—the inspirations for his films—while attending a retrospective of his work. The film
148-402: A "medium fast and jazzy tempo" with no lyrics. Under the single-word title "Stardust," it was placed on the flipside of "One Night In Havana", assigned the release number 6311, and credited to Hoagy Carmichael and His Pals. Carmichael received a one-sided pressing of "Stardust" from the studio, before he left Indiana in 1928 to work for Mills Music as a composer. The first manuscript for the song
222-560: A band called Carmichael's Collegians. Carmichael and his band performed locally in Indiana and around Ohio . The band appeared at 50 events between 1924 and 1925, while between 1925 and 1926, they played three to five nights a week at different engagements. Carmichael received his bachelor's degree in 1925 and had earned a Bachelor of Laws by 1926. In the same year he worked as a law clerk in Miami, but he returned to Indiana after failing
296-474: A combination of her insecurities and his philandering. His last meeting with Dorrie takes place in a psychiatric hospital, where she is depressed and heavily medicated. Arriving at the Stardust Hotel, Sandy is swamped by fans, who often make bizarre or comical requests from him. He attends screenings of his films, and then submits to question and answer sessions. After the first session, he is invited to
370-595: A comedy drama, this hybrid genre often deals with real life situations, grounded characters, and believable situations. The ratio between the drama and comedy can vary, but most of the time there is an equal measure of both, with neither side dominating. Abreu also adds that dramedies often deal with relatable and serious topics such as divorce, illness, hardship, and heartache. Examples of comedy dramas in American film include: Examples of American television comedy dramas include: Stardust (1927 song) " Stardust "
444-420: A considerable intensity and with dramatic outbursts," with a "realistic and very full" piano reproduction. Throughout the 1930s, record labels used both the one and two-word versions of the title, though Carmichael himself favored the one-word title, as evidenced by his private correspondence and his 1946 memoir The Stardust Road. By 1935, while radio announcers commonly credited the orchestra only, Carmichael
518-402: A filmmaker in confident command of his medium is one of the several remarkable readouts from this film." Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote, "In Stardust Memories we get more of the same thoughts over and over—it's like watching a loop. The material is fractured and the scenes are very short, but there was not a single one that I was sorry to see end. Stardust Memories doesn't seem like
592-468: A humorous tenor. In television, modern scripted comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcoms . In the very influential Greek theatre , plays were considered comedies or tragedies. This concept even influenced Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period . Theatre of that era
666-406: A large field, where they encounter a congregation of locals awaiting the appearance of flying saucers. During this encounter, Sandy begins losing touch with reality, imagining or hallucinating various figures from his life and films, as well as a group of extraterrestrials (who advise him to continue making comedies). He finally imagines a psychotic fan who shoots him dead. Actually having fainted in
740-519: A movie, or even like a filmed essay; it's nothing." In a joint article, The Daily Telegraph film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey listed it as Allen's 10th greatest film and wrote; "slammed at the time, it's a retrospective knock-out, thanks to its ambitious structure, vinegary gags and the searing monochrome photography, courtesy of Gordon Willis ". Sam Fragoso of IndieWire also ranked it among Allen's best works, lauding it as "an extraordinarily realized portrait of artistic stagnation". The film
814-485: A nearby club by a young couple, Jack and Daisy, and he eagerly agrees. At the nightclub, Sandy uses an instance of Jack's absence to openly flirt with Daisy. The following day, Sandy's current lover Isobel, a married mother of two, arrives at the hotel to join him. She announces that she has left her husband. Sandy responds ambivalently to this news, but considers taking their relationship to the next level. Sandy also meets with executives from his film studio, who have reshot
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#1732798408584888-551: A panic attack, Sandy fantasizes that he is given a posthumous award for his life's work. He accepts the award in person, and tells the audience that the one moment in his life where he felt truly happy and fulfilled was on a sunny morning in his Manhattan apartment, passing the time with Dorrie, reading and listening to Louis Armstrong 's version of " Stardust ". As Sandy awakes from his fainting spell, he speaks Dorrie's name, which angers Isobel, who has been waiting by his bedside. She attempts to break up with him, prompting him to abandon
962-513: A pleasing, country-tinged arrangement" that the reviewer noted to be "somewhere between" Sinatra and Nelson's version. "Stardust" is considered a part of the Great American Songbook . The song has been recorded over 1,500 times, and has been translated into 40 languages. The Encyclopædia Britannica has defined it as "one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music". Carmichael's 1927 version
1036-519: A rise in film and television works that could be described as comedy-dramas. The term is a translation from the French "comédie dramatique". The portmanteau "dramedy" came to be in the 1980s. In January 2022, Rafael Abreu, writing for the StudioBinder filmmaking blog, defined this genre as follows: A dramedy is a movie or program that balances the elements of a drama and a comedy. Also known as
1110-592: A romantic ballad by vocalists. For the period from July 1947 to July 1948, "Stardust" placed at number one on the Juke Box Standard Favorites poll Billboard conducted through juke box operators and using the Peatman Survey for radio audiences. According to Billboard , it "proved to be a nationwide favorite, drawing top votes from all parts of the country". In May 1953, according to jukebox operators, "Stardust" placed three times on
1184-618: A scabrous self-portrait that rankles as often as it impresses stylisticly." Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote the work "is [Allen's] most provocative film thus far and perhaps his most revealing" and certainly "the one that will inspire the most heated debate". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars out of four and called it "a disappointment. It needs some larger idea, some sort of organizing force, to pull together all these scenes of bitching and moaning, and make them lead somewhere." Gene Siskel of
1258-471: A seat, and then exits. Allen has asserted that Stardust Memories is not an autobiographical work. "[Critics] thought that the lead character was me !", the director is quoted as saying in Woody Allen on Woody Allen . "Not a fictional character, but me, and that I was expressing hostility toward my audience. ... [T]hat was in no way the point of the film. It was about a character who is obviously having
1332-505: A sort of nervous breakdown and in spite of success has come to a point in his life where he is having a bad time." The conflict between the maternal, nurturing woman and the earnest, usually younger one, is a recurring theme in Allen's films. Like many of Allen's films, Stardust Memories incorporates several jazz recordings including those by such notables as Louis Armstrong , Django Reinhardt , and Chick Webb . The film's title alludes to
1406-467: A taste for jazz music . He had learned to play the piano with his mother, who performed at dances and movie theaters. In 1922, Carmichael met and befriended Bix Beiderbecke . Carmichael often played with Beiderbecke, and he became acquainted with his band, the Wolverines , who recorded his original composition " Riverboat Shuffle " in 1924. While still attending Indiana University, the singer formed
1480-501: A version on his album Star Dust , which reached number two on Billboard's Best selling LP's chart. Saxophonist John Coltrane recorded a ballad version in 1958 in what was later known as the Stardust Sessions , later released as the title track of his 1963 Stardust album . Sinatra's 1962 Sinatra and Strings album arranger Don Costa omitted Stardust's chorus, to instead focus the "musical and lyrical mind on all
1554-418: Is a 1927 song composed by Hoagy Carmichael , with lyrics later added by Mitchell Parish . It has been recorded as an instrumental or vocal track over 1,500 times. Carmichael developed a taste for jazz while attending Indiana University . He formed his own band and played at local events in Indiana and Ohio . Following his graduation, Carmichael moved to Florida to work for a law firm . He left
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#17327984085841628-480: Is also about realism, relationships, and death. It refers to many questions about the meaning of life. It also ruminates on the role that luck plays in life, a theme Allen would revisit in Match Point . Filming locations include: From the sleeve notes of MGM's 2000 DVD release: "Shot on location in the fall of 1979, Stardust Memories may look as though it takes place in a Victorian-style seaside hotel, but it
1702-538: Is featured at the start of closing credits in Nightmare Alley (2021) . On YouTube that 1942 recording has garnered nearly 230,000 views of one posting alone. On December 1, 2000, Nelson's version of "Stardust" was used to wake up the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour ' s mission STS-108 . The Caretaker sampled versions of the song for 2 of his albums; Marjorie Stedeford's version in We'll All Go Riding on
1776-560: Is on the wrong train, he tries unsuccessfully to get off the train before it speeds away. In the next scene, all the characters from the train wander aimlessly through an immense garbage dump. Sandy's character sees that the passengers from the other train have also ended up at the dump. Studio executives, having watched Sandy's film, complain that it is uncommercial and depressing. When this is conveyed to Sandy, he insists that he no longer wants to make shallow comedy films, as this no longer feels honest to him. Sandy's managers remind him that he
1850-461: Is scheduled to appear at a weekend-long retrospective of his films at the Stardust Hotel on the Jersey Shore . He is reluctant but agrees to attend. Through the weekend, Sandy is haunted by memories of Dorrie, a former lover with mental illness issues. He recalls his first meeting with Dorrie on the set of one of his films, the blossoming of their relationship, and its later deterioration through
1924-560: Is shot in black and white and is reminiscent of Federico Fellini 's 8½ (1963), which it parodies. Stardust Memories was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay, but was not warmly received by critics on its original release, and is not among the most renowned works in Allen's filmography. The film has nonetheless been re-evaluated to some extent, with modern reception more often positive than negative. Allen, who denies that
1998-541: Is thought to have long-lasting influence, even in modern narrative works. Even today, works are often classified into two broad buckets, dramas and comedies. For instance, many awards that recognize achievements in film and television today, such as the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards segregate several award categories into these two classifications. The 20th century saw
2072-488: The Chicago Tribune considered the tune "completely in line with her magnificent singing". In 1954, when the copyright of 14 of his songs including "Stardust" was due for renewal , Carmichael sued Mills Music to receive total ownership or co-ownership of the compositions. Carmichael's contract with Mills Music granted the songwriter royalties in case any of his songs were published. He started his legal action on
2146-554: The Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and suggested that Allen "seems to have run out of creative gas. The film doesn't have much of a premise." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "has no dramatic shape or resonance, and the incidental laughs are few and far between." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times was positive, calling the film "both extremely funny and extremely affecting ... Allen's growth as an actor and as
2220-701: The Billboard charts for 540 weeks until 1988. Of Nelson's version of "Stardust", National Public Radio commented: "Today, people who never heard of Isham Jones or Artie Shaw or even composer Hoagy Carmichael know his work thanks to Willie Nelson." Tiny Tim recorded the song with Brave Combo on what would be his final recording, the 1996 album Girl . Rod Stewart included the song on Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III in 2004. In 2017, Bob Dylan recorded it for his three-disc set Triplicate , that covered American standards. Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone considered that "Dylan's approach finds
2294-545: The Jazz Age . Carmichael's biographer Richard Sudhalter attributed the song's popularity to "some combination of young Carmichael's heartland upbringing, Bix's uniquely bardic sensibility, and the unself-conscious emotional directness that characterizes much non-urban American pop music". Nelson's Stardust album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015. In 1938, Orson Welles 's radio broadcast The War of
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2368-544: The Mills Blue Rhythm Band and Cab Calloway . In 1936, for the first time in its history, RCA Records pressed two versions of the same song by two different artists on a single record: Tommy Dorsey on one side and Benny Goodman on the other. Goodman used an arrangement by Fletcher Henderson , while Dorsey's version featured the vocals of Edythe Wright . By 1937, Goodman remarked that Carmichael's tune
2442-595: The Florida Bar examination . However, he passed the Indiana State Bar Association examination and worked for a law firm in that state. With the success of Red Nichols ' 1927 recording of Carmichael's original " Washboard Blues ", the composer decided to leave the practice of law in pursuit of a career in music. Carmichael wrote the song with inspiration from the end of his love affair with Kathryn Moore, who would later marry Art Baker,
2516-509: The Pied Pipers , while Shaw's release would become the most popular recording by the clarinetist, selling a million copies. The Baltimore Sun celebrated the release of both recordings in the same week. It considered Dorsey's version "emotional", and felt the vocals by Sinatra and the Pied Pipers made the record suitable for "armchair listening". Of Shaw's version, the reviewer remarked on his "fluid clarinet above strings", and determined
2590-478: The Ten Pop Standard Records list. Shaw's version topped the chart, while Dorsey and Miller's versions placed at numbers seven and eight, respectively. Ella Fitzgerald recorded the song, accompanied by Ellis Larkins on the piano. The tune was included on her 1954 album Songs in a Mellow Mood . Saturday Review described Fitzgerald as doing "absorbing things with 'Stardust ' ", while
2664-632: The Worlds featured an excerpt of "Stardust" played by the fictional Ramón Raquello Orchestra. The 1961 episode "The Hit Songwriters" of The Flintstones featured a version by Fred Flintstone . Different versions of the song appeared in films, including Stardust Memories (1980), Goodfellas (1990), Another Man's Poison (1951), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Casino (1995), The Aviator (2004), A Star Is Born (2018), Captive State (2019) ., and Carmichael's own short 1942 recording
2738-478: The attention of Isham Jones , who recorded a version with his orchestra as a slow ballad . Jones's session took place on May 14, 1930, in Chicago, and Brunswick Records released it under catalog number 4856, with the title once again "Stardust." The 1931 release became one of his most popular recordings. By 1931, "Stardust" was often played by the orchestras of several US radio stations. While remarking on
2812-615: The chorus starts on the IV chord for two bars which then changes from major to minor, a method also used by two contemporary songs: " After You’ve Gone " (1918) and " I’ll See You In My Dreams " (1924). The melody fluctuates between minor and major third intervals in range of an octave and a third to "heighten drama". In early 1929, Redman and his band The Chocolate Dandies released "Star Dust" on Okeh 8668. The recording retained Carmichael's original key of D. The song soon circulated among black musicians and jazz interpreters, and it
2886-491: The day. ... This is what happens with celebrities—one day people love you, the next day they want to kill you." On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 66% based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Woody Allen throws himself a pity party with all the surrealistic trimmings of Federico Fellini in Stardust Memories ,
2960-675: The decades to touch the spirit of anyone who hears it". In 2004, the Library of Congress inducted Carmichael's "Stardust" into the National Recording Registry , which lists "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" music that "informs or reflects life" in the United States. Carmichael's entry to the Songwriters Hall of Fame deemed the song "most notably one of the greatest standards" from
3034-447: The ending of his film, with the characters ending up in "jazz heaven", instead of the garbage dump. Sandy declares the idea to be idiotic, and refuses to accept it. While talking with his agent on a public phone, Sandy overhears Daisy talking about her sexual ambivalence towards Jack. Later, Sandy organizes an outing alone with Daisy. While the two are together, Sandy's car breaks down and they are forced to continue on foot. They arrive at
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3108-476: The famous take of " Stardust " recorded in 1931 by Armstrong, wherein the trumpeter sings "oh, memory" three times in succession. However, it is the master take that plays in the movie during the sequence where Sandy is remembering the best moment of his life: looking at Dorrie while listening to Armstrong's recording of the song. The film deals with issues regarding religion, God, and philosophy; especially existentialism, psychology, symbolism, wars and politics. It
3182-496: The film grossed $ 326,779 from 29 theaters, averaging $ 11,268 per screen. It grossed $ 10,389,003 in the United States and Canada by the end of its run, against a production budget of $ 10 million. In Diane Jacobs' But We Need the Eggs: The Magic of Woody Allen , the director is quoted as saying: "[S]hortly after Stardust Memories opened, John Lennon was shot by the very guy who had asked him for his autograph earlier in
3256-468: The grounds of "unconscionable advantage taken of him at the time the contracts were executed". Summary judgment was denied, as the court considered that "the assignee paid large royalties". In 1955, during the 25th anniversary of its publishing, Time estimated that Carmichael received a total of $ 250,000 in royalties for "Stardust", while the song made at the time $ 15,000 to $ 20,000 a year. Producer Lee Gillette convinced Nat King Cole to include
3330-496: The increase in the price of song royalties. To counter the use of ASCAP tunes including "Stardust", Broadcast Music, Inc. was created, and the broadcasters did not renew their contract for the use of an estimated two million tunes. After nine months of negotiation, a settlement was reached in October 1941 and major networks aired the tunes again. In 1941, Don Byas recorded a version of "Stardust" featuring Thelonious Monk , as he
3404-436: The law sector and returned to Indiana, after learning of the success of one of his compositions. In 1927, after leaving a local university hangout, Carmichael started to whistle a tune that he later developed further. When composing the song, he was inspired by the end of one of his love affairs , and on the suggestion of a university classmate, he decided on its title. The same year, Carmichael recorded an instrumental version of
3478-590: The neglected nuances of the verse". A review in The Rock Island Argus called Sinatra's "Stardust" his "choicest" track on the album and remarked on his "entirely new approach overlooking the perennially favored chorus". Between 1958 and 1963, "Stardust" produced US$ 50,000 yearly in royalties for Mills Music. In 1964, Nino Tempo & April Stevens ' version peaked at number 32 on Billboard's Top 100 and number 27 in Canada . Ringo Starr recorded
3552-568: The popularity of the tune on the radio, the Calgary Herald opined of Jones's version: "This beautiful melody seems destined to achieve the popularity which it so richly deserves and which is so long overdue." In August 1931, Bing Crosby released the song as "Star Dust" on Brunswick Records. The same year, Lee Sims also released "Stardust" on Brunswick 6132, a version that the Sydney Morning Herald called "a melody of
3626-467: The record is for "straight dancing". The Tampa Bay Times welcomed Dorsey's "silky trombone" and the "slow vocal style" of Sinatra and the Pied Pipers. Of Shaw's version, they stressed his "intricate and dazzling clarinet wizardry", and the "medium slow drag" playing style of the band. The Times-Dispatch also remarked on the "intricate clarinet work" by Shaw, while it felt that Dorsey's version featured "expert trombone work" and an "unusual vocal" that
3700-555: The result is "completely dead and lifeless". The publication attributed this to an imbalance in the number of musicians in the woodwind section, compared to the rhythm section, which the reviewer described as "just competent musicians, no more". In 1940, the tune was among those affected by the ASCAP boycott . The dispute between the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and radio broadcasters focused on
3774-455: The retrospective and follow her onto her train. He passionately persuades her to forgive him, and they kiss as the train departs. These events are observed by a film audience, which includes many figures who appear as characters in the film itself. As this film ends, they discuss its merits and flaws, and share their experiences of making it. As the audience departs the theater, a figure resembling Sandy enters, retrieves his iconic sunglasses from
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#17327984085843848-415: The reviewer preferred over Shaw's version. Shaw's recording was arranged by Lennie Hayton , while the clarinetist used his new orchestra composed of: Billy Butterfield (trumpet), Jerry Jerome (tenor saxophone), Johnny Guarnieri (piano), Nick Fatool (drums), and Jack Jenney and Vernon Brown (trombones). Hayton's arrangements included solos by Shaw, Butterfield and Jenney, while they were focused on
3922-421: The song at a "slower tempo and in a sentimental style". Feeling it could be a potential success, Irving Mills "decided on the song having lyrics added. Mills assigned lyricist Mitchell Parish to add the words to Carmichael's "Star Dust". Parish used as a working title "Then I Will Be Satisfied", but he accepted Redman's suggestion to re-title the song to "Stardust". Author Gene Fernett suggested Redman wrote
3996-497: The song featuring arrangements by Paul McCartney for his 1970 debut solo album, Sentimental Journey . In 1978, Willie Nelson recorded it as the title-track of his album of pop standards . In its review, the Gannett News Service felt that "Carmichael would be proud". Nelson's album topped Billboard's Top Country Albums , while reaching the summit on Billboard's Top LPs & Tapes. Stardust remained on
4070-476: The song for Gennett Records . In 1928, Carmichael left Indiana after Mills Music hired him as a composer. Mills Music then assigned Mitchell Parish to add words to the song. Don Redman recorded the song in the same year, and by 1929 it was performed regularly at the Cotton Club . Isham Jones 's 1930 rendition of the song made it popular on radio, and soon multiple acts had recorded "Stardust". Because of
4144-480: The song on his 1957 release Love Is the Thing . Cole initially refused to record it because of the number of renditions available at the time. Cole, who had been singing the song since 1954, declared: "I hate to sing Stardust, it wears me out". On its release, the song received good airplay. In 1957, Billy Ward and his Dominoes ' version placed at number 12 on Billboard's Top 100. The same year, Pat Boone released
4218-464: The song with the family's piano, saying "the public likes to think these sweet songs are conceived under the moonlight, amid roses and soft breezes". Carmichael finished the details of the composition on a grand piano that was later thrown away because of its poor state. Baker and Carmichael's Collegians' singer Violet Deckard Gardner remembered Carmichael humming the tune of the incomplete composition before 1926. Fellow student Stuart Gorrell suggested
4292-474: The song's popularity, by 1936, RCA Victor pressed a double-sided version that featured Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman on respective sides. By 1940 the song was considered a standard , and it was later included in the Great American Songbook . That year, RCA Victor released two more recordings of "Stardust": one by Dorsey featuring Frank Sinatra as the singer, and one by Artie Shaw . Shaw's recording sold one million copies, and Glenn Miller 's rendition
4366-458: The subject of the song the melody itself". The sheet music for the vocal composition was published as "Star Dust" on May 10, 1929 in the key of C major . The song's structure has two introductory verses that are sometimes omitted. These are followed by a 32-bar chorus in ABAC form (instead of the traditional AABA form) that is often repeated. The intriguing opening harmonic progression of
4440-763: The title "Star Dust"; Gorrell felt the tune sounded like "dust from stars drifting down through the summer sky". After working out the details with the band, Carmichael booked a recording session with Gennett Records for October 31, 1927. Since he had not written any sheet music for the song, he had to whistle the tune to the musicians. Carmichael played the piano, backed by Emil Seidel and his orchestra: Byron Smart (trumpet), Oscar Rossberg ( trombone ), Dick Kent and Gene Wood ( alto saxophones ), Maurice Bennett ( tenor saxophone ), Don Kimmel (guitar), Paul Brown (tuba), Cliff Williams (drums). The session took place at Gennett's studio in Richmond, Indiana . The recording featured
4514-611: The trumpet player in Carmichael's Collegians. While Carmichael related several explanations of how he was inspired to write it on the University campus, biographer Richard Sudhalter deemed the stories "encrusted in myth, much of it the composer's own creation". One night after leaving the Book Nook, a university hangout, Carmichael whistled what would become the opening of the song. The composer later declared that he felt that
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#17327984085844588-410: The tune "had something very strange and different". He worked on the details with different pianos, including one at the Book Nook. According to Ernie Pyle , the composer did further work at the Carmichael family's home. While he visited Carmichael, Pyle asked him to play the song he had been working on. Pyle later commented that Carmichael asked him not to reveal the details of the night he worked on
4662-417: The use of the string section. Also in 1940, Glenn Miller recorded his version of the song, which entered Billboard's National Best Selling Chart on October 26, and peaked at number 20. DownBeat ' s review considered the release "among the greatest bits of big band scoring in history". While it considered the song "beautifully arranged with good sax and trumpet solos", The Boston Globe felt
4736-420: The verse of the song, but his claim could not be supported. Parish wrote the song using Carmichael's account of how he was inspired to compose the melody, while the lyricist developed a story focused in the concept of lost love. Regarding the lyrics, author Philip Furia described the phrasing as "utterly casual", while he felt that the "imagery and diction strain to be poetic". Furia stressed that Parish "made
4810-481: The work is autobiographical and has expressed regret that audiences interpreted it as such, has cited Stardust Memories as one of his own favorite films. Sandy Bates is a director of comedy films. His latest film ends with a surreal sequence in which a character (played by Sandy) is trapped on a train carriage surrounded by grotesque and unhappy figures. The character looks out the carriage window and sees another train filled with beautiful and happy people. Convinced he
4884-868: Was actually shot at the Ocean Grove Great Auditorium and the Methodist Episcopal Conference Center and Concert Hall in New Jersey. Most of the interiors, including the bedroom scenes, were shot in a vacant Sears Roebuck building, but the crew also recreated a vintage train at Filmways Studio in Harlem . To reproduce the movement of a rail car, the whole train was mounted on jacks and gently jostled back and forth." Stardust Memories opened in North America on September 26, 1980. On its opening weekend,
4958-504: Was deposited at the United States Copyright Office on January 5, 1928. The sheet music featured a tune in a key of D with no indication of tempo and no lyrics. Mills Music then published different sheet music for the song on January 19, 1929, as a piano composition. Don Redman , who worked for Mills Music, often played the song. After hearing Redman's rendition of it, a company arranger suggested playing
5032-482: Was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1995. The 1940 recording of the song by Artie Shaw And His Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988. National Public Radio included it on their NPR 100, a 1999 list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. For NPR, Susan Stamberg defined it as "an American song of longing, dreams, desires, [that] still stretches across
5106-579: Was listed 16th among Allen's efforts in a poll of Time Out contributors, with editor Joshua Rothkopf praising it as "a piece of self-referential hilarity in its own right." In October 2013, Stardust Memories was voted by The Guardian readers as the eighth best film directed by Allen. Comedy-drama Comedy drama , also known by the portmanteau dramedy , is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama . In films, serious dramatic themes (such as death, illness, etc.) are dealt with realism and subtlety, while preserving
5180-472: Was mentioned as the composer of the song during introductions because of its popularity. The same year, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins recorded the song on March 2 in Paris. Compagnie de Gramophone Française released it with the catalog number K-7527. The song was often performed by Art Tatum , Garnet Clark , and Fats Waller . Mills recorded the song himself with his multiple bands, and recorded versions by
5254-404: Was often performed at the Cotton Club after being introduced in 1929. Duke Ellington performed the song at the club. The revue Hot Chocolates featured a version by Louis Armstrong , which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. While Carmichael worked for RCA Records as a session jazz ensemble leader, journalist Walter Winchell promoted the song. His writings attracted
5328-498: Was published in the same year. Artists including Jo Stafford , Ella Fitzgerald , Nat King Cole , Billy Ward and his Dominoes , Ringo Starr , and Willie Nelson have recorded "Stardust". The song was featured in several films, including My Favorite Year , Goodfellas , Sleepless in Seattle , and Casino . It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1995 and added to the National Recording Registry in 2004. Soon after entering Indiana University , Carmichael developed
5402-513: Was the house pianist at Minton's Playhouse . Monk disliked "Stardust": he described it as "a sad song ... if you know anything about music and harmony". He felt the melody was "lousy" and that performers have to "do a lot of figuring how to play that in order to make it sound good". Another version by Miller was released on the V-Disc label in 1943. During the 1940s, "Stardust" was recorded by multiple artists either as an instrumental song or as
5476-441: Was the most popular dance number of his repertoire. "Stardust" became a standard of big band music. In 1940, RCA Victor executive Harry Myerson proposed that the label again release a two-sided recording of "Stardust": one side would feature Artie Shaw , the other a new version by Dorsey. Shaw and Dorsey's versions were ultimately released on separate records. Dorsey's recording of the song featured vocals by Frank Sinatra and
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