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re: ALL of Hollywood's best movie musicals were made with *movie stars.*
Posted by: PlayWiz 02:32 am EDT 06/27/19
In reply to: re: ALL of Hollywood's best movie musicals were made with *movie stars.* - BroadwayTonyJ 07:52 pm EDT 06/26/19

Great casting ideas for "Guys and Dolls" -- Deanna Durbin would have been great. I love Vivian Blaine on the OCR as Adelaide, but I think she was somewhat mis-directed in the film. I wonder if Judy Holliday's name ever came up for the film? Also, why did they take out "Bushel and a Peck" which was one of the best known songs outside of the show and replace it with the lesser Loesser "Pet Me, Poppa"?
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re: ALL of Hollywood's best movie musicals were made with *movie stars.*
Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:19 am EDT 06/27/19
In reply to: re: ALL of Hollywood's best movie musicals were made with *movie stars.* - PlayWiz 02:32 am EDT 06/27/19

I read somewhere that Sam Goldwyn loved Blaine's stage performance and insisted that she play Adelaide in the film. I actually like her film performance, but I admit she is very Broadway in the movie. I vaguely recall an interview Blaine did decades ago about "Pet Me, Poppa" replacing "Bushel and a Peck" -- something like the original song was perceived as being too overtly sexual -- she said the reason that was given was pretty dumb.
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