Dana Andrews ("Fred") left, and Teresa Wright ("Peggy"), steering the wheel, in The Best Years of Our Lives.
Born today (November 22), Hoagy Carmichael plays the wounded sailor's Uncle Butch, the piano player who performs "Among My Souvenirs" as Al (Fredric March) and Millie (Myrna Loy) dance and Fred meets Peggy at Butch's bar in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)..
And he's thinking: if only I could get a good job.
And she's thinking: when I think that he's married, I sob.
And he's thinking: I married a stranger.
And she's thinking: a divorce would be a game-changer.
And he's thinking: wait till my friend gets married and I'm the best man, Okay?
And she's thinking: Okay.
Well, it's been a long war. . .
[dialogue as rewritten to the tune of Frank Loesser's "Been a Long Day:" in How to Succeed]
See, too, this piece in The American Scholar.
Hoagy Carmichael's songs include "Stardust," Skylark,""Baltimore Oriole," and "How Little We Know," which Lauren Bacall sings while Hoagy plays piano and Bogart watches in To Have and Have Not.