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THE ENGLISH PATIENT won an Oscar for Best Picture. Did you find it the best anything? I think MFL is one of the worst-directed films ever made. If you like it, fine.
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If I were casting the film back then, my cast would have been:
Dolly - Anne Bancroft
Horace - Eddie Albert
Cornelius - Grover Dale
Irene - Patty Duke
Barnaby - Danny Lockin
Minnie - Goldie Hawn
I like these casting ideas very much. Dale was in HALF A SIXPENCE a year or two earlier and I can "see" him as a good Cornelius. I'm curious though why you have a MIRACLE WORKER reunion here.
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If I were casting the film back then, my cast would have been:
Dolly - Anne Bancroft
Horace - Eddie Albert
Cornelius - Grover Dale
Irene - Patty Duke
Barnaby - Danny Lockin
Minnie - Goldie Hawn
I like these casting ideas very much. Dale was in HALF A SIXPENCE a year or two earlier and I can "see" him as a good Cornelius. I'm curious though why you have a MIRACLE WORKER reunion here.
Because I think it would have been a great cast.
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Mark: Re: If I were casting the film back then, my cast would have been:
Dolly - Anne Bancroft
Horace - Eddie Albert
Cornelius - Grover Dale
Irene - Patty Duke
Barnaby - Danny Lockin
Minnie - Goldie Hawn
I like these casting ideas very much. Dale was in HALF A SIXPENCE a year or two earlier and I can "see" him as a good Cornelius. I'm curious though why you have a MIRACLE WORKER reunion here.
Mark: I just saw this from 5-17, which had slipped past me. What a bizarre group! Could Anne Bancroft sing? Or Eddie Albert? I'm glad you've kept the wonderful (but long gone) Danny Lockin as Barnaby. As for Cornelius, anybody but Michael Crawford!!! I saw Grover Dale in "Half A Sixpence" and you probably know that he was James Badge Dale's father -- JBD starred in the short-lived "Rubicon," and the next year played Michael Fassbender's boss in the wild "Shame," and, earlier, was in "The Pacific." Born 5-1-78 in NYC, he should be with us for a while.
Would still love to see a complete "Dolly" film score! And it's an interesting point about the music being recorded twice -- I remember watching the credits and being amazed at the credits for the arrangements, which seemed to go on and on and on. Someone will bring out the discarded version one of these days, probably after WE'RE gone!
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Mark: Re: If I were casting the film back then, my cast would have been:
Dolly - Anne Bancroft
Horace - Eddie Albert
Cornelius - Grover Dale
Irene - Patty Duke
Barnaby - Danny Lockin
Minnie - Goldie Hawn
I like these casting ideas very much. Dale was in HALF A SIXPENCE a year or two earlier and I can "see" him as a good Cornelius. I'm curious though why you have a MIRACLE WORKER reunion here.
Mark: I just saw this from 5-17, which had slipped past me. What a bizarre group! Could Anne Bancroft sing? Or Eddie Albert? I'm glad you've kept the wonderful (but long gone) Danny Lockin as Barnaby. As for Cornelius, anybody but Michael Crawford!!! I saw Grover Dale in "Half A Sixpence" and you probably know that he was James Badge Dale's father -- JBD starred in the short-lived "Rubicon," and the next year played Michael Fassbender's boss in the wild "Shame," and, earlier, was in "The Pacific." Born 5-1-78 in NYC, he should be with us for a while.
Would still love to see a complete "Dolly" film score! And it's an interesting point about the music being recorded twice -- I remember watching the credits and being amazed at the credits for the arrangements, which seemed to go on and on and on. Someone will bring out the discarded version one of these days, probably after WE'RE gone!
Eddie Albert did sing on the stage, considereatly better than Walter matthau.
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Anne Bancroft was definitely a singer. She sings in the film, DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK, and was the first choice for FUNNY GIRL on Broadway. Eddie appeared in the Broadway musical, THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE by Rodgers and Hart.
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Anne Bancroft was definitely a singer. She sings in the film, DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK, and was the first choice for FUNNY GIRL on Broadway. Eddie appeared in the Broadway musical, THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE by Rodgers and Hart.
And Eddie was Ali Hakim in the movie version of "Oklahoma!" Remember him with Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie? Very funny, but his character didn't sing. Recently I was watching my DVD of "Dress Gray" were he played the disapproving father of a gay son who has been murdered at a military academy, and he would rather the killer get away with it than to reveal that his son had been gay. I understand they're going to make a musical out of it. [Was joking about THAT!]
Follow-up: In the new broadwayworld.com there's a link to an interesting interview with Martin Charnin, with a lot of discussion about his "Annie" and the new movie coming out with a black cast and a lot of new songs. We discover that Charnin was a Jet in the original Broadway production of "West Side Story," that he wrote for a TV review that Anne Bancroft did, that he was allowed to go through some unpublished Richard Rodgers music to fashion 2 new songs for a revival of "Two By Two," and some interesting information about "Bar Mitzvah Boy," a show he did with Jule Styne. (Interestingly, nothing about the first movie of "Annie.") Check it out.
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Anne Bancroft was definitely a singer. She sings in the film, DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK...
Modestly and without distinction, in my opinion.
I didn't come away thinking, "Wow, Anne Bancroft should have had more singing roles."
And no bigger Anne Bancroft fan there is in this world than yours-truly....
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As much as I enjoyed Michael Crawford in "Billie" and loved him in "Phantom," he seemed SO out of place to me in "Dolly," and the exaggerated American accent didn't help.
Incidentally, the number of new songs added to the latest movie version of "Annie" AREN'T from the original writers.
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Eddie Albert did sing on the stage, considerably better than Walter Matthau.
Heck yeah--remember Eddie Albert sang the theme song to GREEN ACRES under the main titles every week!
Awesome point, JS. Thanks for the reminder.
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