I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story – Cahn, Sammy (1974)
[I asked David Merrick for a job] when he was going to do Sugar. He said, “Sam, “I’m sorry, I already have a lyric writer – Bob Merrill – it’s out of my hands.” I said, “I think you’re lucky, and I envy you, because you fellows are going to have to be very talented to screw this up.” Merrick said, “Don’t worry, we’re very talented.”
4/40/72 Times: Morse, Roberts Star in Sugar Clive Barnes
Sugar “has been taken from the Billy Wilder film, Some Like it Hot. It should have been left right there. Jule Styne’s score scarcely leaves the ground. Bob Merrill’s lyrics sound graceless and uninteresting. Peter Stone’s book seems at its best when it sticks most closely to the lines of the original screenplay.” |
