SECONDFIDDLE

Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle is a 1939 American musical romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee and Lyle Talbot. The score was composed by Irving Berlin. A Hollywood publicity agent falls in love with a new actress he helped to discover. The film parodies the extensive search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. It is sometimes known as Irving Berlin's Second Fiddle.

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second fiddle

Noun

  1. A fiddle part in harmony to the first fiddle.
    The second fiddle on that tune is almost as hard as the first fiddle.
  2. The person playing second fiddle.
    I've been second fiddle in that band for ten years now.
  3. A sidekick or subordinate, or the role of such a person.
    I'm tired of being your second fiddle!
    I'm tired of playing second fiddle to you.


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