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| re: They should have used a movie star as Hedy in "How to Succeed..." (re: Maureen Arthur) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:04 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
| In reply to: re: They should have used a movie star as Hedy in "How to Succeed..." (re: Maureen Arthur) - BroadwayTonyJ 06:46 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| I like Arthur in the movie, and she was cast based on her stage performances in the role, so they knew what they were getting. A too-big name would have unbalanced the movie, not that the people you mention (except perhaps Eden) were really too big by the time the movie was made. But I doubt that Adams would have been interested in the role, and poor Barbara Nichols was probably so tired of those kinds of roles. Van Doren actually did play the role onstage at least once (as I found in a quick ebay search) at the Beef 'n' Boards Dinner Theatre. She also did other theatre, including a Music Fair tour of Silk Stockings in which she played Janice Dayton, with Earl Wrightson and with Lee Grant as Ninotchka! Mansfield, of course, did theatre too. I just read some pans of her in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. |
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| Joi Lansing!! (re: Hedy in "How to Succeed..." (re: Maureen Arthur) | |
| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 10:37 am EDT 06/27/19 | |
| In reply to: re: They should have used a movie star as Hedy in "How to Succeed..." (re: Maureen Arthur) - AlanScott 08:04 pm EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| And she could sing... Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington) |
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| Link | Alan Scott, you have me trapped in a "Web of Love" for your erudition!!! |
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| re: Joi Lansing!! (re: Hedy in "How to Succeed..." (re: Maureen Arthur) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:33 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: Joi Lansing!! (re: Hedy in "How to Succeed..." (re: Maureen Arthur) - Marlo*Manners 10:37 am EDT 06/27/19 | |
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| First, your link title made me laugh. And then what is at the link made me laugh even more. Thank you for that. I always remember Joi Lansing from the episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies in which she appeared, particularly the one in which (if memory serves) she sang "All of You" to Jethro. I don't recall knowing till I just looked her up that she was in Touch of Evil. Anyway, yes, she probably would have been a very good Hedy, although I do think that Maureen Arthur had quite a good enough figure and an effective almost Channing-like delivery that worked well in the movie. |
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