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re: Barbra vs Carol in HELLO, DOLLY!

Posted by: LegitOnce 12:40 pm EDT 04/02/14
In reply to: re: Barbra vs Carol in HELLO, DOLLY! - perfectlyfrank 12:17 pm EDT 04/02/14
I think Lucy could at that point (late 1960s) sing well enough to get through Hello, Dolly reasonably well. It's not a vocally challenging score (unlike Mame) and the character of Dolly, scheming and rather common, would have been well within her range. The various widowed "Lucy" characters she played in her 1960s TV series were basically variations on Dolly anyway.

The question, though, would be whether at the point in time the film was made Ball would have been considered a bankable enough star to carry an extremely expensive production. She had a very nice success with Yours, Mine and Ours in 1968, but the budget for that picture was barely 10% what Dolly cost.

It's really kind of hard to imagine which female star circa 1968-1969 would have been both age-suitable for the Dolly and a big enough box office name: Shirley MacLaine? Elizabeth Taylor? Debbie Reynolds?


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