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The song inspired and gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again, where Lynn stars in a loose adaptation of her life as a Forces' Sweetheart during the war. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Lynn's 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick 's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear ...
The nostalgic lyrics ("We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day") were very popular during the war and made the song one of its emblematic hits. [28] Amongst her other well-known wartime hits was "The White Cliffs of Dover", with words by Nat Burton, music by Walter Kent. [29]
Throughout her career Garland recorded numerous soundtracks for her films, as well as studio recordings for Decca, Columbia and Capitol Records. In addition to these soundtrack and studio recordings, Garland would also perform numerous songs on her 1963–1964 CBS television series, The Judy Garland Show , with an array of famous guest performers.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The story is simple and the varied situations lack originality, but Vera Lynn's charming voice and extensive repertoire of songs more than atone. The acting on the whole is good, especially the comedy of Frank Leister as Mr. Hartropp of the B.B.C. and of Betty Jardine as his earnest secretary."
J'attendrai" (French for "I will wait" [1]) is a popular French song first recorded by Rina Ketty in 1938. It became the big French song during World War II; a counterpart to Lale Andersen's "Lili Marlen" in Germany and Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" in Britain.
'Til We Meet Again: Edmund Goulding: Merle Oberon, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald: Drama: Warner Bros.; remake of One Way Passage (1932) Tin Pan Alley: Walter Lang: Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne: Musical: 20th Century Fox; won Academy Award for musical score Tom Brown's School Days: Robert Stevenson
' Til We Meet Again is a 1940 romance film directed by Edmund Goulding and Anatole Litvak and starring Merle Oberon and George Brent as two doomed, star-crossed lovers. It is a remake—with new characters and some different scenes—of the 1932 film One Way Passage. 'Til We Meet Again was remade into the 1954 Mexican 3-D film El valor de vivir.
We'll Meet Again, a musical starring Lynn; We'll Meet Again, a 1999 story by Mary Higgins Clark. We'll Meet Again, a film based on the story; We'll Meet Again, a 1982 British television series; We'll Meet Again with Ann Curry, a 2017–18 PBS television series "We'll Meet Again" , an episode of True Blood