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Interesting comments. KISMET was a pretty bawdy show which was toned down somewhat for Hollywood. 'Rhadlakum' had its lead-in dialogue and verses awkwardly edited out of the final cut (the deleted sequence from a work print in b+w is an extra on the blu ray), but even so the song is clearly...

Yes. Lavish and beautifully sung, but flat and stagey for the most part. Howard Keel said that Minnelli was not interested in the show and gave little or no direction, busying himself with his upcoming production of LUST FOR LIFE. His payoff from MGM for doing KISMET was to be able to do his Van...

Funny! Being Americans, they of course only thought it was advertising his rear end..... Speaking of Leslie Caron, I once met her after a stage performance with Louis Jourdan in Melbourne in 1980. Both nice people. I believe Jourdan's son sadly took his own life. According to Caron's...

Hi. I am still waiting here in Australia for my copy to come. I also have not seen it since 1971. Your summation is encouraging to me re the good salvageable elements in it. I have the LP soundtrack converted to cd and Henderson's voice is great. (As with Shirley Jones-who was offered the role...

Hi Anthony. I am going ok. My replacement teaching work is gone for the time being, but I am out delivering meals for Ubereats, helping others to stay indoors. I also do this in Ballarat to have a "working holiday" of sorts. I have my copy of NORWAY coming from Deepdiscount. Curious to see what...

Hi Matthew. Actually, the book is pretty fair and generally positive about these musicals. Lots of trivia. I found some of the negative quotes for films I like hilarious, such as DR DOLITTLE receiving The Best Argument For Vivisection award from the Harvard Lampoon. Here is a link to my review...

Apologies for above typos. It does not appear that I can edit my posts. How does one do this now?

I think you mean SONG of Norway, though Sony will appreciate the free plug! Hi Anyhony. I used to play 78s as a kid. We had some songs from the soundtrack of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN on 78rpm, amongst other titles. I have MONTE CARLO on the Lubitsch Laserdisc boxed set, which became hard to get...

We are off topic, but let me say that I do enjoy pre-Code MacDonald in her Lubitsch titles (and non-Lubitsch such as THE VAGABOND KING) much more than in her Nelson Eddy films. (Although the last one they did-I MARRIED AN ANGEL-is akin to a post - Code Lubitsch and more fun than the others, in...

Wow. Interesting factoid I was completely unaware of. It may have been a better movie, although the score would have to have been altered a good deal to make Grieg a non-singing role. Mills would have acted the part well. Maybe someone like Anna Neagle could have been in the Henderson role...

Good and fair summation of this film Matt. I saw it at age 11 in Easter '71 in Geelong, Victoria. Was somewhat non-plussed but curious to see it now to better assess its pros and cons. I think Edward G. Robinson stood out, for memory. THE BRADY BUNCH had recently begun on Australian TV, so...