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Re: La Vie en Rose (2007)
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Originally Posted by Lew Crippen
Could you give some examples Henry? If I’m not wrong, La Vie en Rose did not appear until 1946—after VE-Day. That is, I’ve always thought of it as a post-war song.
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No, I can't give even ONE example. 
Thought I might be onto something when I found a list of films it had been used in, but none of those films were set in WWII.
Did find a few mentions that the song was written during the German occupation of Paris, but, like you said, recorded in 1946.
OK, a little help folks, have I just invented this memory of La Vie en Rose
in war films? I think it was used, even if it was not historically accurate.
She does have two other songs in Saving Private Ryan.
"One thing about Americans, we're not cut out to be occupiers. We're new at it and not very good at it. "
-Judgment At Nuremberg- (1961)
Last edited by Henry Gale : 03-06-2008 at 06:11 PM.
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