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re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin

Posted by: PlayWiz 12:54 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin - AlanScott 12:41 pm EDT 05/07/15

Apparently Alan Jay Lerner approached Deanna Durbin about making a comeback to show business as Eliza. She was also contacted about the film version as well.


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Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and...

Posted by: jimvar1 01:34 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin - PlayWiz 12:54 pm EDT 05/07/15

8 years older by the time the film was made? And how convincing a Cockney girl could she have played?

Some other bizarre stage/film fantasy casting (among many):

- Darryl Zanuck wanted Maureen O'Hara as Mrs. Anna except for R. Rodgers saying no. O'Hara might've actually been good; except that she was American.

- Doris Day as Maria von Trapp?


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re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and...

Posted by: PlayWiz 05:28 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - jimvar1 01:34 pm EDT 05/07/15

Actually Doris Day would have been a fine Maria Von Trapp; her star magnetism, still fresh-scrubbed look and proven singing talent might worked. But Julie Andrews was very recent to the film world, though people had been hearing about her in the news losing out to Audrey Hepburn for "My Fair Lady". Those kids in "Sound of Music" have for the most part American accents. Julie Andrews is so good and charismatic that her British accent doesn't really feel out of place in Austria.


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The SOM film accents

Posted by: jimvar1 03:25 am EDT 05/08/15
In reply to: re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - PlayWiz 05:28 pm EDT 05/07/15

I don't think the film kids had accents that particularly stood out as "American." As a matter of fact, w/ Andrews and Richard Haydn being the only Brits in the cast (and Andrews already having spent some 10 years in the USA), Plummer being Canadian, and everyone else Yank, Robert Wise and his team went to great effort to achieve a "mid-Atlantic" accent for the film. And I think they succeeded in that regard.

Compare Carrie Underwood's accent to the American actors in the film, and you will get a heavier "American" accent than what came out in the film.


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re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and...

Posted by: AlanScott 01:46 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - jimvar1 01:34 pm EDT 05/07/15

Do you know about google and duckduckgo? If you type in a famous performer's name and hit return or click search, sometimes you can find a date of birth for someone without even having to click again.

Durbin was 34 when MFL opened on Broadway.


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And Maureen O'Hara is Irish

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:38 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - AlanScott 01:46 pm EDT 05/07/15

:-)


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re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and...

Posted by: jimvar1 01:55 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - AlanScott 01:46 pm EDT 05/07/15

I know; I know. There's also such a thing as ...havedaoderfellalookitup4u.com

LOL!!


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re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and...

Posted by: AlanScott 02:15 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - jimvar1 01:55 pm EDT 05/07/15

You're funny.

But you should have gone to see Fun Home. ;)


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re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin

Posted by: AlanScott 01:07 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to: re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin - PlayWiz 12:54 pm EDT 05/07/15

Hard for me to imagine that she would have been seriously considered for the film by that point, but, yes, she was among the names mentioned for Eliza onstage.


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