ANASTASIA is one of Fox's greatest classics ever. Brilliant casting, screenplay, music and direction. I saw it many times during it's original release and never forgot the final 6 words said by Helen Hayes in the closing scene.
On numerous occasions songs that have been specifically written for a musical film/stage show then dropped, often show up in other later musicals but have the cast of the new film/stage show,singing them
It was originally a fox film-warners didn't have cinemascope in the very early fifties. The film was shown at the cinema where my parents worked and we never screened Warner's films.
You are right in that there is no mention of TODD-AO in the credits but it does have the overture, entracte and play-out music.I thought that the quality was brilliant. I did also see it in 70mm decades ago.
I understand that the 70mm film THE BLUE BIRD was a Russian/USA coproduction so maybe Fox don't have the rights? What about RALLY 'ROUND THE FLAG BOYS and THE RAINS OF RANCHIPUR (A cinemascope remake of THE RAINS CAME)? There are many more early cinemascope films from Fox that have...