Isn't It Romantic?

Isn't It Romantic?

"Isn't It Romantic?" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. The music was composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It has a 32-bar chorus in ABAC form. Alec Wilder, in his book "" calls it "a perfect song."

It was introduced in the Paramount film "Love Me Tonight" (1932). It has since been recorded numerous times, with and without vocals, by many jazz and popular artists. It has also since been featured in a number of movies, including several other Paramount films, such as Preston Sturges' "The Lady Eve" (1941) and "The Palm Beach Story" (1942), as well as Billy Wilder's "Sabrina" 1954

In "Love Me Tonight", the song is used in an innovative sequence in which it is first sung by Maurice Chevalier, a tailor, and then taken up by others (his customer, a cabby, a composer, a troop of soldiers, a band of gypsies) and is finally heard and sung by a princess, played by Jeanette MacDonald.

The lyrics in the film are not the same as those in the published version.


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