[78-L] Olde-timers

[Taylor Bowie]

I like her in "Some Came Running,"  "The Turning Point,"   and a few others. 
I wish I could have seen her when she understudied Carol Haney in "The 
Pajama Game"  on Broadway.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Olde-timers


>I can't stomach her books and her pretentiousness. She was a dangerous 
>woman
> for a few years in the 80s..there's nothing worse than an actor who gets
> enlightened (or runs for politics). She got to be a much better actress 
> when
> she got older. "Irma La Douce" and "Can Can" are so lugubrious I want to
> scream. At least you get to see a few other talented people and some good
> choreography in "Sweet Charity" (too bad they dropped one of the best 
> songs,
> "Baby Dream Your Dream").
>
> dl
>
> Cary Ginell wrote:
>> I thought Shirley was very charming and lovable in "The Apartment."
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:20:24 -0500
>>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Olde-timers
>>>
>>> You can actually make it through Can Can? I couldn't! Or anything else 
>>> with
>>> Shirley MacLaine, for that matter. Seriously, I was raised on early 
>>> Chevalier
>>> records and it was pathetic to see him slog through Gigi and Can Can 
>>> (playing
>>> the same part).
>>>
>>> Take him out and shoot him, I say.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>>> dl opined:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> And he wasn't an embarrassment in his later years, unlike Sophie or
>>>>> Maurice
>>>>> (suffering through those creaky old crocks on the Ed Sullivan Show is
>>>>> still
>>>>> enough to cause me to avoid any of their later output). Nobody pointed 
>>>>> a
>>>>> gun at
>>>>> his head and forced him to record Hello Dolly.
>>>> I can remember seeing Sophie Tucker on Ed Sullivan when I was about 
>>>> eight or
>>>> nine...I was totally amazed and enjoyed it very much...and that first
>>>> impression later got me interested in her old records when I started
>>>> collecting at age 12.
>>>>
>>>> The first I recall of Chevalier was seeing the movie Can-Can when I was
>>>> about seven or eight...same thing.  I thought he was great and I still
>>>> collect his stuff along with Sophie's!
>>>>
>>>> Taylor
>>>>
>>>>
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