| re: HELLO, DOLLY! Film - If not Streisand, Then Who? |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 04:58 pm EDT 06/29/17 |
| In reply to: re: HELLO, DOLLY! Film - If not Streisand, Then Who? - BroadwayTonyJ 03:15 pm EDT 06/29/17 |
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| But Preston had name value, even if not as a movie star per se--he started out playing villains in Westerns and by the time TMM was filmed, he had strong national recognition--remember this was a time when people bought cast albums regularly and the show had been featured on TV variety shows. I think Rosalind Russell was still considered a pretty big star when Gypsy was made, only a few years after Auntie Mame, and Natalie Wood was one, too, if only on the basis of West Side Story. I don't think anyone thought the films of How to Succeed and 1776 were any better than, for the most part, reasonably faithful recordings of stage shows (though I will never forgive them for cutting "Paris Original" and for casting Blythe Danner instead of Betty Buckley!). |
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