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In the supplements of the Carousel blu-ray they have photos of Sinatra dressed as Billy Bigelow. He looks ridiculous. However, Sinatra sings the amazing Soliloquy on one of his albums. The voice is there, but he was physically miscast. MacRae’s rendition in the film is powerful. Too bad they cut...

I guess Star didn’t do well because audiences were expecting something as uplifting as The Sound of Music. I saw it at the Rivoli and was revolted when I heard 20th was cutting it back by about an hour giving it a general release under another title, Those Were the Happy Times. It didn’t help. A...

I saw Cleopatra a few days after it opened at the Rivoli in NY. It was an anticipated event. The Rivoli always was the premier Todd AO theatre in NY. Picture and audio were exemplary. I enjoyed it so much I went to see it again a few months later. Almost a year later I went to see it when it...

The Story of Ruth has always been a favorite. The DVD is surprisingly good. Ruth has a beautiful score by Franz Waxman, especially the melody applied to the well known words from the Bible: Ruth tells her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband had died, where you go I will go, where you lodge I...

I remember seeing the credit ”in Technicolor Deluxe” on some films of that era. It sounded as if there was a special new better Technicolor for CinemaScope.