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| re: ''Critic's Choice'' isn't -- Anyone see it on Broadway? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:29 pm EDT 07/13/21 | |
| In reply to: ''Critic's Choice'' isn't -- Anyone see it on Broadway? - WaymanWong 08:53 pm EDT 07/13/21 | |
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| I think it should be noted that the film of Critic's Choice was directed by Don Weis, not Otto Preminger. Preminger produced and directed the play, but had nothing to do with the film. Even Preminger's worst films — and there are a bunch — show more flair and personality than the film version of Critic's Choice. The ones that are bad are either ambitious or fascinatingly and bizarrely bad (or both), not merely dull, and the film of Critic's Choice is dull, with Lucille Ball's performance being about the only thing that might be felt to make it worth sitting through. | |
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| re: ''Critic's Choice'' isn't -- Anyone see it on Broadway? | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 11:45 pm EDT 07/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: ''Critic's Choice'' isn't -- Anyone see it on Broadway? - AlanScott 10:29 pm EDT 07/13/21 | |
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| Thanks for the correction, Alan. I was just surprised to learn Preminger had 12 Broadway credits. I usually think of his movie work. As a 3-time Oscar-nominee, he did ''Laura,'' ''Anatomy of a Murder'' and ''The Cardinal,'' plus ''Porgy & Bess'' and ''Carmen Jones.'' However, part of me will always remember Preminger most as one of the Mr. Freezes from the campy ''Batman'' TV series in the '60s. |
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| Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' | |
| Last Edit: Marlo*Manners 09:40 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 09:27 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: ''Critic's Choice'' isn't -- Anyone see it on Broadway? - WaymanWong 11:45 pm EDT 07/13/21 | |
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| Jean Kerr wrote a semi-autobiographical bestseller called "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" which was adapted into a motion picture in 1960 starring David Niven and Doris Day. It has similar plotlines as "Critic's Choice" - a theater critic is married to a writer and they move into the country. He has to review their best friend's new play while fending off the attentions of a Broadway actress - mayhem and hilarity ensues. Niven and Day were better cast as critic and playwriting wife than Hope and Ball. Getting back to the topic at hand - Doris Day had more skill and range than she has generally been credited for. I think she would have scored in the leading role in the film adaptation of "Mary, Mary". Also, a freer adaptation with a quicker, bouncier pace would have resulted in a better picture. I am also of the opinion that Doris Day should have done "Forty Carats" as well which was offered to her and turned down. Liv Ullmann was too young and all wrong. I also think she should have been Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific". Doris started out as a band singer which is live performing. Did she ever do stage work? Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington) |
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| re: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' | |
| Posted by: dbdbdb 10:17 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| In reply to: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' - Marlo*Manners 09:27 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
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| It should be noted that Please Don't Eat the Daisies, the book, is a collection of comic essays about Kerr's life as a playwright, housewife, and mother. Isobel Lennart is a piece of fiction that borrows a few details from Kerr. The two properties have very little to do with each other. Your idea about Doris Day in Mary, Mary is very interesting, and I agree she might have made something very amusing out of it. I suppose it was impossible that Barbara Bel Geddes would ever have been cast in the film. | |
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| re: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:26 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" re: ''Critic's Choice'' - dbdbdb 10:17 am EDT 07/14/21 | |
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| I just watched this last night and was thinking that it would have worked so much better as a vehicle for Doris Day and Rock Hudson. The movie is so slowly paced that I would also have suggested that whomever wrote and directed the Day/Hudson film might add a little zip to the proceedings as well. | |
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