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| “We May Never Love Like This Again” | |
|---|---|
| Single by Maureen McGovern | |
| from the album The Towering Inferno | |
| B-side | “Wherever Love Takes Me” |
| Released | January 1975 |
| Length | 2:10 |
| Label | 20th Century |
| Songwriter(s) | Al Kasha Joel Hirschhorn |
| Producer(s) | Carl Maduri |
| Maureen McGovern singles chronology | |
| “Give Me a Reason to Be Gone” (1974)”We May Never Love Like This Again“ (1975)”Even Better Than I Know Myself” (1975) |
“We May Never Love Like This Again” is a song written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the 1974 film, The Towering Inferno. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1974, and was performed by Maureen McGovern both for the film score and, briefly, in the film itself with McGovern portraying a singer. McGovern had performed a cover version of Kasha and Hirschhorn’s song “The Morning After“, which also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song two years earlier.
Hollywood composer John Williams wrote the original music score for the film, and interpolated the tune of the song into the underscore of the movie. The actual 1974 song recording for the album (subsequently released as a single) was produced by Carl Maduri for Belkin-Maduri Productions. It was arranged by Joe Hudson and was engineered by Arnie Rosenberg.
| The Towering Inferno | |
|---|---|
| Theatrical release poster by John Berkey[1] | |
| Directed by | John Guillermin |
| Produced by | Irwin Allen |
| Screenplay by | Stirling Silliphant |
| Based on | The Tower by Richard Martin Stern The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia Frank M. Robinson |
| Starring | Steve McQueenPaul NewmanWilliam HoldenFaye DunawayFred AstaireSusan BlakelyRichard ChamberlainJennifer JonesO. J. SimpsonRobert VaughnRobert Wagner |
| Music by | John Williams |
| Cinematography | Fred J. KoenekampJoseph Biroc |
| Edited by | Carl Kress Harold F. Kress |
| Production company | 20th Century Fox Warner Bros. Irwin Allen Productions |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (United States) Warner Bros. (International) |
| Release date | December 14, 1974 |
| Running time | 165 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million |
| Box office | $139.7 million |
The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. Directed by John Guillermin, the film is a co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., the first to be a joint venture by two major Hollywood studios. It was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.
The film earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was the highest-grossing film released in 1974. The picture was nominated for eight Oscars in all, winning three. In addition to McQueen and Newman, the cast includes William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, O. J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery, Gregory Sierra, Dabney Coleman and, in her final role, Jennifer Jones.
Warner Brothers outbid Fox to obtain the rights to Stern’s The Tower for $400,000. Fox, in turn, spent $300,000 to obtain the rights to Scortia’s The Glass Inferno. Irwin Allen realized that two films about a tall building on fire would cannibalize each other (as actually happened a couple decades later in the case of the two films about active volcanoes, released nearly simultaneously, Volcano (released by Fox) and Dante’s Peak (released by Universal)), convinced executives at both studios to join forces to make a single film on the subject. The studios issued a joint press release announcing the single film collaboration in October, 1973.
Although famed for his dancing and singing in musical movies, Fred Astaire received his only Oscar nomination for this film. He also won both a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for his performance.
The score was composed and conducted by John Williams, orchestrated by Herbert W. Spencer and Al Woodbury, and recorded at the 20th Century Fox scoring stage on October 31 and November 4, 7 and 11, 1974. The original recording engineer was Ted Keep.
The film was one of the biggest grossing films of 1975 with domestic rentals of $48,838,000. In January 1976, it was claimed that the film had attained the highest foreign film rental for any film in its initial release with $43 million. When combined with the rentals from the United States and Canada, the worldwide rental is $91,838,000.
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