That Certain Feeling

"That Certain Feeling" is a 1925 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

It was introduced by Allen Kearns and Queenie Smith in the 1925 musical Tip-Toes. It was later used as the title of a 1956 Bob Hope film featuring Pearl Bailey, who also made a popular recording.

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That Certain Feeling (film)

That Certain Feeling is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Melvin Frank, and starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, and George Sanders. The cast also features Pearl Bailey and a young Jerry Mathers.

Based on a Broadway play, the film includes a song of the same name with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written in 1925. Bailey was one of many singers who made a recording of it.

Plot

A beautiful, sophisticated New York woman who goes by the name Dunreath Henry seems to have it all. She is not only the private secretary to the wealthy and popular cartoonist Larry Larkin, she is also his fiancee.

But back in Port Huron, Michigan when she was a girl, she was plain old Ethel Jankowski. And she used to be married to another cartoonist, the talented but neurotic Francis X. Dignan, who was once an associate of the famed Al Capp.

One day, when Larkin's syndicate complains that his boy-and-dog comic strip "Snips and Runty" hasn't been as funny as it used to be, Dunreath hatches a scheme. Larry is leaving on a business trip and she is busy planning their honeymoon, so why not hire Dignan to ghost-write the strip?

That Certain Feeling (album)

That Certain Feeling is an album by American organist John Patton recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 3½ stars and stated "there are moments when everything comes together and it just cooks. And those are the moments that make That Certain Feeling worth a search".

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