Breathe, the movie

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The song "I was born under a wandering star" is not an anachronism, since the Broadway show came out in the late 1940s. Can error be corrected?
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https://www.imdb.com/find?q=Breathe&s=tt&exact=true
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Breathe (2017)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5716464/reference
Wand'rin' Star
Written by Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Performed by Lee Marvin

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5716464/goofs
Anachronisms 
They have a scene of them driving down the road
in the van that shows the date 1965
and the song in the background is of
Lee Marvin singing "I was born under a Wandering Star".
That song came out with the movie Paint My Wagon in 1969 four years later.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5716464/goofs?item=gf3866034
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Paint Your Wagon (1969)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064782/reference
Wand'rin' Star
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Sung by Lee Marvin & The Chorus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wand%27rin%27_Star
It was originally written by
Alan J. Lerner (lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music)
for the stage musical Paint Your Wagon in 1951.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Your_Wagon_(musical)
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https://www.ibdb.com/
Internet Broadway Database
IBDB | The Official Source For Broadway Information

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/paint-your-wagon-6901
Paint Your Wagon
Setting Northern California, 1853.

Nov 12, 1951 - Jul 19, 1952
Shubert Theatre, New York, NY
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Lee Marvin Wandering Star 1969 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jYk5u9vKfA
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Breathe Producers wanted to use the song in the movie
and the only one found was from 1969 Paint your Wagon movie ? ?
No recordings from the 1951 play ? ?
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2019-08-12T14:36:40+00:00
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I watched the movie and was  not aware of hearing the song itself. Maybe it is from the later movie, but the song itself was from 1951. The writer on the site for "Breathe" is referring to the movie of Paint Your Wagon, and the play came out earlier. I read this remark after I watched the movie on DVD. I do not know how to edit or correct an error myself. The writer of Goofs said the song wasn't around until the movie came out and I am saying the song was from earlier. Therefore, the song is NOT an anachronism. I had the Broadway cast album and the song was in that production. Maybe the comment could be adjusted. Or maybe I misinterpreted to comment.
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Goofs can be corrected or deleted on the website.

Is the song just played in the background, or is it played on the radio or similar that suggests that the specific version of the song existed at the time?
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I do not know how to delete an error on the web site. The Goofs section for "Breathe" said the song was an anachronism. I knew the song came out in the 40s on Broadway. I would have to watch the movie again to know when the song came in. I wanted the Goof remark to be deleted. The writer was referring to the movie of "Paint Your Wagon," which did come out later.   Whoever wrote up the movie, Breathe, might just remove that comment about its being an anachronism. The song certainly existed at the time of the early period depicted in the movie. Thanks, Carol
11 months ago
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As ACT_1 points out above, both the Soundtracks page and the Goofs item state that Lee Marvin is singing the song. That recording would not yet exist in '65 when the scene uses it diegetically (per the description in the Goof; I haven't seen this film). Therefore the goof as stated on IMDb would be accurate.

You would need to find that scene and demonstrate that the song isn't there (in the original film, not just a dvd/streaming version, which may be edited), or the time of the scene was after the '69 Lee Marvin recording was available, or that it wasn't the Lee Marvin version, to dispute the Goof.
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Thanks for your reply and clarifying. I was not aware of the song in the movie, so let the "anachronism" stand. I might have misread that the comment to mean that the song itself wasn't around at that time. I appreciate your answer.
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