| HELLO, DOLLY! Film - If not Streisand, Then Who? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:23 pm EDT 06/29/17 | |
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| Okay, there seems to be general agreement that Streisand was way too young for Dolly in the film, but I've always heard that she was cast because she was very hot in film at that point. Assuming that one isn't hiring Channing or any of the faded Hollywood movie queens who followed her on stage (could it really have been a screen comeback for Ginger Rogers or Betty Grable?), who else was popular in film at the time might have been chosen to play Dolly? Casting this movie seems very like casting the rare film musical today in the 21st Century with creatives having to find someone who's box office, but who can also not embarrass themselves in a musical at a time when musicals were really no longer being made. Julie Andrews would probably have been as equally wrong as Streisand, just in different ways. Glynis Johns had been in MARY POPPINS a few years before, but she was never really big star and never had a carry a film on her own, right? Did Sally Ann Howes have any film currency after CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG? She's, again, probably too young. So who was box office in the late '60's, but who could also have done the part? And be better or just as good as Streisand. |
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