# Movies Named After Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826 "2006-02-10T05:55:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/41 "2006-02-12T13:19:54Z")
[Can’t Buy Me Love](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092718/) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/42 "2006-02-12T22:29:33Z")
**Eight Days A Week** **Love Me Tender** ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/43 "2006-02-12T23:18:53Z")
**All of Me** ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/44 "2006-02-12T23:23:52Z")
Steve Martin had 3 movies named after songs: Roxanne, All of Me, and Pennies from Heaven. OK, Roxanne is a “not really.” But it still might make good trivia. Here’s another… which movie title is taken from a line never actually spoken about a song in a previous movie? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/45 "2006-02-12T23:24:22Z")
\*\*Thunder Road \*\* was a song named after a movie. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/46 "2006-02-12T23:25:50Z")
> [@Walter Windchill](#): > > Here’s another… which movie title is taken from a line never actually spoken about a song in a previous movie? I can’t resist this: _Play it Again, Sam_ – Woody Allen, IIRC ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/47 "2006-02-12T23:28:33Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > \*\*Thunder Road \*\* was a song named after a movie. Does that count? In the Mitchum movie (late 50’s) the song was the theme to the movie and was issued as a single with Mitchum (the songwriter) doing the singing. There’s another Thunder Road song, too. Springsteen, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/48 "2006-02-12T23:35:15Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I can’t resist this: _Play it Again, Sam_ – Woody Allen, IIRC Damn, that was fast. As for Steve Martin, I didn’t think of “A Simple Twist of Fate” and “My Blue Heaven,” which makes for four movies that are clearly named after songs, and a sort-of fifth. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/49 "2006-02-13T03:16:30Z")
A Patrick Dempsey twofer: [In the Mood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093253/) and [Happy Together](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097478/). ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/50 "2006-02-13T03:18:59Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > In the Mitchum movie (late 50’s) the song was the theme to the movie and was issued as a single with Mitchum (the songwriter) doing the singing. > > There’s another Thunder Road song, too. Springsteen, maybe? Yes, I am referring to the 1975 Springsteen song. Bruce is a big Robert Mitchum fan. ---
**Author:** ![Flipstrip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Flipstrip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipstrip)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/51 "2006-02-13T03:26:05Z")
“Something To Talk About” and “Pretty Woman” – a Julia Roberts two-fer. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826/52 "2006-02-13T12:47:55Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > Yes, I am referring to the 1975 Springsteen song. Bruce is a big Robert Mitchum fan. I can’t imagine Bruce _not_ being at least mildly influenced by the Mitchum venture. (I have never heard the Spingsteen version, if that matters.) The Mitchum song is one of the first I ever learned to play and sing and I wager Bruce may have had a similar experience with it. Mitchum’s biography (the one I read anyway) points out how, even as a kid, Mitchum was quite handy with poetry and songwriting. His image as Mr. Cool amd Macho Man belies his “softer” side. He also wrote a song that Keely Smith sings in the movie called “Whippoorwill” which I have yet to find online. Too specialized, I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-named-after-songs/343826.md?page=2)