| This gives me hope for a film of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA |
| Last Edit: GrumpyMorningBoy 06:49 pm EST 02/13/21 |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 06:46 pm EST 02/13/21 |
| In reply to: Paramount remaking THE KING & I (the musical) - StageLover 08:27 pm EST 02/12/21 |
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The best Golden Age musical that never made it to film.
LIL' ABNER, UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, and any number of shows with about as many orig Bway performances as THE MOST HAPPY FELLA got film treatments.
And Frank Loesser was well known -- and well liked -- in Hollywood. He worked on a whole buncha movies.
"Standin' On the Corner" was a radio hit. This show coulda been a hit musical if they coulda cast it.
Casting. That's the hard part. And maybe why it never made it to film.
But wouldn't we have thought the same thing before Yul Brynner came along?
- GMB |
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