Lonely Girl
1965
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Highlights
  • Written for the 1965 Paramount Pictures film, Harlow. Directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone and Angela Lansbury.
  • A biographical film about the life of film star Jean Harlow. It opens with Harlow as a struggling extra and bit actress dealing with her greedy stepfather Marino and oblivious mother "Mama Jean". With the help of Arthur Landau, she rises to fame and gains the unwanted attention of the Howard Hughes-inspired Richard Manley. She then marries Paul Bern, an absentee husband who kills himself some time after the marriage. His death, combined with the stress of her career leads Harlow on an odyssey of failed relationships and alcoholism, culminating in her death of kidney failure at the age of twenty-six.
  • LONELY GIRL is performed in the film by Bobby Vinton.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON, MUSIC BY NEIL HEFTI
COPYRIGHT 1965


Recording History
Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Together Again, Improv Records, 1977
Cast from Harlow, alternate vocal version
Cast from Harlow, main title version
Bobby Vinton, Harlow (soundtrack), 1965
Lyrics

Lonely girl in silk and satin
Love has never known you
Lonely girl all dressed in sadness
Love will never own you

You're afraid to stop, look, and surrender
You're afraid of love, torrid or tender
Once, I dreamed we'd share moments of splendor
Wish that I could have shown you

Once, I dreamed we'd share moments of splendor
Wish that I could have shown you
Lonely girl in silk and satin
Wish that I have known you