| re: Hat's off! Here it comes: the trailer for National Theatre Live's 'Follies' | |
| Posted by: NightMusic77 10:12 am EDT 10/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Hat's off! Here it comes: the trailer for National Theatre Live's 'Follies' - MarjorieMae 03:38 pm EDT 10/04/17 | |
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| I think this is the article you're talking about "Springer recalled doling out Follies songs to Old Hollywood icons with a sort of Easter Bunny benevolence. He played “I’m Still Here” for his client Bette Davis, who went nuts for it (“It could have been written for me!”) and asked to sing it in the movie. “All through a trip I made with Bette to Australia and New Zealand,” Springer wrote, “she was playing the 1971 Follies cast album and learning the song, and you haven’t heard anything until you’ve heard Bette Davis sing ‘I’m Still Here.’” After briefly considering Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine to play the miserably married Buddy and Sally, Springer approached Singin’ in the Rain costars Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, both of whom were “enthusiastic” about reteaming. He offered the roles of the bickering upper-crust couple Ben and Phyllis to Henry Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor, but then “Richard Burton insisted he play opposite her. Henry Fonda laughed and said, ‘Let him play it!’” Springer further claimed that he’d committed Gloria Swanson to sing the ghoulish aria “One More Kiss,” Leslie Caron to do “Ah, Paris!”, and Joan Crawford for the Depression era hard-luck song, “Broadway Baby.” Prince remembered getting a letter from Crawford “saying how much she’d like to do it,” and her Baby Jane nemesis Davis begrudgingly made peace with the matter of their co-starring. “I won’t work with that bitch again,” she told Springer, “but we wouldn’t be in the same scenes.” |
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| Link | https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/11/29/loveland/ |
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