| Who was offered Mame? |
| Posted by: bobby2 09:59 pm EDT 05/14/18 |
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I'm sure this has been well covered but I was just watching a TCM interview with Angela Lansbury. She says she really had to fight for the role.
Wikipedia says Mary Martin turned it down and Herman was talked out of wanting Judy Garland (whom he wrote it for.)
It then says many other actresses were considered before Lansbury was hired.
One thing Alec Baldwin gets wrong in the interview is he says she had never done a musical. She doesn't correct him but she had done Anyone Can Whistle. (I've never seen or heard that.) She then goes on a bit about she knew she had it in her to "take the stage" and do Mame. Was Anyone Can Whistle not that demanding a part for her? It sounds like she is saying she had untapped resources she knew she could deliver but had to convince them. (so I guess Anyone Can Whistle didn't deliver that?) |
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