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re: Thank you! I'm really enjoying watching this!.....

Posted by: larry13 09:41 pm EDT 08/09/14
In reply to: re: Thank you! I'm really enjoying watching this!..... - stevemr 04:49 pm EDT 08/09/14

Edie Adams' daughter was born 7 months after the TV WONDERFUL TOWN. It is much more likely that the "Lizard of Roz"(to quote Stritch, and others I'm sure)kept Adams from recreating the part that had, deservedly, won her great acclaim. Adams was very pretty, almost 20 years younger than Russell, and had a, shall we say, slightly better voice.


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re: Thank you! I'm really enjoying watching this!.....

Posted by: PlayWiz 01:18 am EDT 08/10/14
In reply to: re: Thank you! I'm really enjoying watching this!..... - larry13 09:41 pm EDT 08/09/14

I would have liked to have seen Adams, but Jacquelyn McKeever is also very good and very pretty and seems quite a bit younger than Russell too. Adams was also by 1958 a big name on television from appearing on husband Ernie Kovak's shows so she probably would have required over the title billing after Russell. McKeever around this time was nominated for a Tony for her performance opposite Tony Randall in "Oh, Captain!" and she sounds quite delightful on the recording.

Sydney Chaplin has the combination of hotness, dreaminess and somewhat faulty vocalism which seems to have been his trademark in some top Broadway shows in the 1950s and 1960s.


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re: Thank you! I'm really enjoying watching this!.....

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 12:12 am EDT 08/10/14
In reply to: re: Thank you! I'm really enjoying watching this!..... - larry13 09:41 pm EDT 08/09/14

I think it's interesting that many people apparently viewed Roz's husband as the "bad cop" in the relationship, when according to reports, she herself was responsible for a lot of the very poor behavior, selfishness, and bad decisions. But I guess that wasn't uncommon in showbiz marriages back in the day.


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