Paul Goldfinger. Portrait of Eileen. Undated. Gurney’s Inn, Montauk, New York.
BARBARA COOK. From the album Songs of Dorothy Field.
“The Way You Look Tonight” won an Oscar in 1936. It was featured in the movie Swing Time with Fred Astaire. Jerome Kern wrote the music and Dorothy Fields the lyrics.
Dorothy said that when she first heard the melody, she was so moved that she couldn’t stop crying. It is indeed so beautiful and so perfect for our portrait of Eileen.
And the arrangement–marvelous!
I must have listened to 50 versions of this song. (iTunes has 100.) Cassandra Wilson’s was the best.
Did you know that Gurney’s closed for good several months ago?
Editor’s note: Thanks Cuz—- Many years ago when we went there it was a country inn sitting in a rough hewn Montauk at the tip of the Hamptons, overlooking the ocean. Later it became a trendy Spa.
Maybe their customers are now coming to OG and A. Park. 1 1/2 hours is better than 4 hours. In those days the Hamptons weren’t so fancy, but they were beautiful and fun. Potato farms in the old old days. Don’t know how it is now.
Eileen is so beautiful.
What a great song. the version by the Lettermen was the first and last song that I danced with my first boyfriend. The Fred Astaire version is also spectacular. As Bob Hope said “Thanks for the memory”