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The blu ray is not quite complete. There was a reprise of Bali Hai sung by John Kerr and chorus.

I was asked by Fox along time ago, to go looking for the missing footage. There was a large square silver containter - in there was dubbing tests with John Kerr singing for himself. also there was the missing footage of Gonna Wash that Man. South Pacific was cut just one month into its...

According to several source books, the deluxe South Pacific was only mono. It ahd exactly the same music as the regular album. I do have a stereo copy of the deluxe British version which is full stereo. Concerning Gonna Wash That Man right Oughta my Hair =- it would be tough to restore...

not so. several sources say that Carousel lost at least two million dollars for Fox.

Can you imagine either Doris day or Judy Garland playing a girl in her early twenties from little rock? Or Gene Kelly or cary Grant as the much older FRENCHman Emile de Beque? I don't think so. It has always seemed to me a story of two young kids - Nellie (Gaynor) and Joe cable (kerr) thrown...

There are two versions of sound of music cd - both appeared on the last twqo CD set- one uses the rca album master =- with and without the rca album reverb and the other uses an explanded version from the raw studio sessions tapes, which is what Boulet, I assume, is referring to.

I would love to see a two cd set from South Pacific. All of the raw sessions exist for this film, including Alfred Newmans background score and the song Loneliness of evening sung by Giorgio Tozzi, recorded and filmed but not included in the film. I would love to see a Flower Drum song from...

The lower shot is not publicity - it's a shot from brazzi doing the song Loneliness of evening, never put in the film. the film part is gone but the recording still exists among the raw sessions for the film.

Yes, but the LP was made up way ahead of the premiere to promote the movie. The LP also tells where all of the cut songs come in. However, there is a book called the studio by John Donne which follows one year in the life of Twnetieth Century Fox and records everything about Doolittle, - where...

josh Logan talks about the filters in hsi autobiography. It was supposed to be a subtle color change. Fox poured too much color into it.

Jefferson, you are quite right - Ann Lees own voice is only in the early trailer. In the film and on the lp and CD she is dubbed by Marie Greene.

Who knows? Maybe that part of the track had some last minute damage and it had to be done quickly. Maybe that line was a little bit too low for Shirley. We can only guess. Still, Marni does a great imitation of Shirley.

I am told that the 70mm print fox is using for the restoration was borrowed from a private collector in England. For R and H fans, it was recently found that Marni Nixon dubs one line of singing fo rShirley Jones in Carousel. In the song, IF I LOVED YOU< Marni sings "and I always say two heads...

No, there is no such scene fo Joe in the hospital. It is not in the shooting scripts and is not in any of the cutting continuities even for the first preveiw print.

To clear up a few South Pacific things - when the film was cut, it wasnot just chopped up but the parts that were cut were also redubbed to smooth out the cut. One scene, Joe cable singing Bali Hai on his way to the island, was cut and replaced with new footage of Joe on the boat while the...

I also saw this "other " version of Doolittle - but that is a prerelease version. When the film officially opened, it had already been shortened. the longer version does not exist at Fox. Also cut from the film (and not on the soundtrack album) is a reprise fo Where are the Words, sung by...

Bad news on doolittle. What we have on dvd IS the complete roadshow version. The film was cut to current lenght BEFORE its opening in New York and los angeles. In the early nineties, Fox Vid looked into a longer Dr. dolittle but found nothing.

Yes, there will be a two disc set of both versions of South Pacific. This and the new King and I and Carousel are about a year away from release. I hope they add on other goodies that exist including the alternate foreign opening reel fo rSouth Pacifc. and the dubbing test for John Kerr.

I forgot to mention, inthe recebnt issue of the Rodgers and Hammerstein newsletter, there was an articfle abot R and H shows on video. the R and H people sympathised with those who want Flower Drum Song and even told readers to ask Universal as they have the rights, R and H doesn't. It would be...

I know that when South pacific was transferred for laserdisc off of 70mm, there was a lot of problems. It would be nice to see theuncut South Pacifc and to reconstruct theuncut Gonna Wash that man right oughta my Hair. Also shot, but not used was thesong Loneliness of Evening. The recording...

Carousel was not shown in 55mm but King and I was. They talk about this on the special edition laserdisc, which was excellently researched.

The Soliloguoy was filmed just below Malibu at Zuma beach. Fox owned this beach and shot EVERYTHING there. The beach scenes in Jounrey to the Center of the Earth, TheRobe, Beloved Infidel, Prince Valiant - its all the same beach. Also the final shot of Billy supposedly walking up to heaven was...

Fox could hardly affors to shut down an expensive production for a month - so filming continued on location for all scenes that did not involve Macrae - Blow High blow Low and its accompanying dance scene, June is Bustin out All Over, Youre a Queer One Julie Jordan and Mr. Snow - Julie Jordan...

Josh Logan and Leon Shamroy did tests to use a subtle change of color. Fox was used to loading their musicals with tons of color and they overloaded the color on the filters, surprising both Logan and Shamroy. These scenes could be toned down even more. The alternate takes without the filters do...

I forgot to point out. This was not a case of a film being shortened once it left roadshow and went to regular runs. This film was cut three weeks into the roadshow run and newprints were sent to replace the long ones.

I did find SOME of the missing scenes back in 1992 - all of the soundtrack seems to be there. Greg is right - most of wash That Man righ t Oughta My hHair is cut and much of the boars tooth ceremony - but these were both cut LONG before the first rough cut of the film was put together. I did...