米高梅雲雀歌姬［凱薩琳葛蕾森］＆壯漢男高音［霍華基爾］──［畫舫璇宮］電影插曲──浪漫情歌──［Make Believe／相信］

 

 

The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I know,

Our dreams are more romantic than the world we see.

And if the things we dream about don't happen to be so,

That's just an unimportant technicality....

 

We could make believe I love you,

Only make believe that you love me.

Others find peace of mind in pretending,

Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we

Make believe our lips are blending

In a phantom kiss, or two, or three?

Might as well make believe I love you,

For to tell the truth, I do.

 

Your pardon I pray, 'twas too much to say,

The words that betray my heart.

We only pretend, you do not offend,

In playing a lover's part.

 

Though the cold and brutal fact is you and I have never met,

We need not mind convention's P's and Q's,

If we put our thoughts in practice we can banish all regret

Imagining most anything we choose....

 

We could make believe I love you,

Only make believe that you love me.

Others find peace of mind in pretending,

Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we

Make believe our lips are blending

In a phantom kiss or two, or three?

Might as well make believe I love you,

For to tell the truth, I do.

 

１９５１年９月　３０歲的美國影壇的女高音歌舞巨星凱薩琳葛蕾森（Kathryn Grayson）, 艾娃嘉娜（Ava Gardner）與霍華基爾（Howard Keel）主演歌舞愛情片［Show Boat／畫舫璇宮］

這部由Jerome Kern譜曲,Oscar Hammerstein II編寫劇本與填詞的百老匯音樂劇是三度搬上銀幕 

影評良好  被視為米高梅公司１９５０年代最成功的歌舞片之一

票房大賣, 根據米高梅的統計, ［Show Boat］成本２３９萬美元

但在全球回收７６２.１萬美元／rentails, 賺了２３３.７萬元利潤

（美國回收５５３.３萬元rentails; 總票房／gross約１２００萬上下。海外rentails約２３２.８萬元）

 

凱薩琳葛蕾森和霍華基爾是本片男女主角, 兩人皆是受過古典樂訓練的歌手

因而各自或合唱片中許多曲目

其中之一是［Make Believe／相信］

這是葛蕾森與基爾飾演的Magnolia與Gaylord在畫舫上訴說衷情的定情曲

此曲旋律迷人, 在柔緩的絃樂聲中,

兩人以扎實的男女高音交織出這首浪漫的音符

成為［Show Boat／畫舫璇宮］的著名情歌之一

 

 Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VvpDE87b7E

Soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7PjehhPXc

TV 1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHJmDtjZJW0