| re: Let's not look to Molly Brown... | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:08 pm EDT 06/30/17 | |
| In reply to: Let's not look to Molly Brown... - Chazwaza 07:45 pm EDT 06/29/17 | |
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| I think she might have been a good Dolly onstage a few years later, but (as mentioned in other posts) she would not have been considered quite enough of a box-office draw at the time for the movie. Still a star, still getting good movie roles, but not the star to headline a hugely expensive movie, although it's one of those movies that I tend to think might have been twice as good if it had half the budget. Anyway, yes, she is awful as Molly Brown, and she is also not good in the film version of Goodbye, Charlie. In both, she works way too hard. I feel like she was trying to prove that she was an actress. But she is good in other movies from the 1960s, including one mentioned by someone else in this big thread, How the West Was Won. Not a very good movie, but she is one of the better things about it. I even like her in Mary, Mary, for which I think she did not get good reviews. The big problem in that movie (apart from Mervyn LeRoy's direction) is Barry Nelson, who seems to playing to the last row of the balcony. It also feels like he's done it hundreds of times, which of course he had. And it's odd because he was known for being able to stay fresh over a long run (and also because he'd done plenty of movies, although I think he'd not done a film version of a show that he'd done onstage). It feels like he's in a different movie from everyone else. |
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