About this episode

The episode discusses the jazz standard 'Stella by Starlight' and its origins in the film 'The Uninvited'.

We discusss  " Stella by Starlight "  a popular jazz standard with music by Victor Young that was drawn from thematic material composed for the main title and soundtrack of the 1944 Paramount Pictures film The Uninvited . Appearing in the film's underscore as well as in source music as an instrumental theme song without lyrics, it was turned over to Ned Washington , who wrote the lyrics for it in 1946. At one point in the film, the main character, Rick ( Ray Milland ) tells Stella ( Gail Russell ) that he is playing a serenade , "To Stella by Starlight". an Apple Music playlist is here

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