Eight Days A Week
Love Me Tender
All of Me
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?
**Thunder Road ** was a song named after a movie. Does that count?
I can’t resist this: Play it Again, Sam – Woody Allen, IIRC
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?
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.
A Patrick Dempsey twofer: In the Mood and Happy Together.
Yes, I am referring to the 1975 Springsteen song. Bruce is a big Robert Mitchum fan.
“Something To Talk About” and “Pretty Woman” – a Julia Roberts two-fer.
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.