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    Yes I saw a number of continuous performances of MFL and they all had intermissions including as I said at the Cinerama in '78 and the Harris restoration in the 90s. The Cinerama presentation was a bit annoying though a splendid 70MM print the end of the first half was slightly cut off and they...
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    I love that you can find this stuff because it seems to only exist in my memory. But I think I remember the loge was 50 cents more. Back then first run films were $3.00. Back then 50 cents meant something so I sat in the balc for $3. I don't remember the price of the orchestra. It's hard to...
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    Honestly I didn't notice it. That run was in 70MM but it is the only time I've seen MFL without an intermission. It had its world premiere at the Criterion and during its first run there surely had an intermission. Next door at the Loew's State Love Story was packing them in.
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    It must be a great film. The bluray is sold out on Amazon and It is only available used starting at $65 and going up to $129. A very rare jewel. Mine is still wrapped and I paid $19.99. I should have bought 10 copies. Maybe I can get a high price for it on ebay. Or should I actually watch it and...
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    Oh my goodness those roadshow films had pathetic runs. And to think SON ran longer than any of them. And I would have gone to all of them. This picture looking south to Times Square must have been taken in Jan of '71. Look all the way down in the center and you'll see the Criterion marquee. It...
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    I might have written this before(I just can't go through 10 pages on SON) but in the fall of 70 I was standing in front of Loews State looking at the photos of some movie and a little old lady comes up to me and asks me where Song of Norway was. It was easy enough to point to the Cinerama and...
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    Both Edwards and Andrews were best in the 60s. Afterwards it was all very very spotty. I love BAT and the original Pink Panther and even parts of the Party. Emily is good. But yes Andrews has her career today for the cast album of MFL and MP and SOM. I also love TMM. But by the 70s they did...
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    And if you are talking about Darling Lili at Radio City how I envy you. One of my greatest theater going regrets is not seeing their production of Bolero. It was the last time it was done. And I literally started regularly going to the Music Hall a few days after its closing with the film...
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    Are you talking about Darling Lili? I saw Mame at Radio City. Waited hours to get in. I thought it was terrible. And the audience loved it. Practically cheering. It did not keep it from one of the most infamous of musical bombs. And it cannot be denied Darling Lili finished off Andrews box...
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    It did not accord with the audiences tastes either. And I am a very big Andrews fan. But she wasted most of her career when she hooked with Edwards. I was at the first performance of Tamarind Seed at Radio City. I recently watched it on TV. As dull as I remember. Le Jazz Hot made no stir either...
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    The soundtrack to Star! is excellent. I grew up listening to the lp which I loved. The problem is the screen play which is disjointed and has no style but the production and photography are first class. If only Julie had returned to Broadway in the 70s when she was still at the peak of her...
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    Even musicals that were hacked up like the Garland a Star is Born and Streisand's on a clear day have their pleasures. Darling Lily has none.
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    Star! Was one bad movie. But Darling Lili was the clunker that killed her career and it had nothing to do with the editing. There was nothing to be saved. God awful on every level. It only did well at radio City because it was the kind of film at that point that would do well at radio City...
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    Pauline Karl said it was a movie that seems to have been made by trolls. Too bad Julie or Sally Ann Howes wasn't in it. Julie was too busy having her career destroyed by her husband.
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    The glorious sound of those theaters with their 6 track stereo soundtracks is lost forever.
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    I avoided this movie when I could have seen it n the most perfect of theaters the Times Square Warner Cinerama with its vast curved screen. But even as a child I hated The Brady Bunch so much I didn't go to see it fool that I was. A regrettable lost experience. I did for some reason pick up the...
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    Well who made The Grand Waltz? You've got The Great Waltz, The Emperor Waltz, The Last Waltz, Waltzes with Wolves...
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    Well it was successful enough to beget The Grand Waltz so it was not a flop.
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    Is that the recording that includes Bolero? Yes Night of My Nights is nicely filmed with the reflecting pool. I read once and I wish I remember where that MGM due to budgetary reasons was going to cut the entire procession but Duquette said just give me a little money and I can come up with...
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    I find the best thing about Kismet are the Jack Cole dances which are straight from Broadway. The women's dances when they are presented to the Caliph as possible bride's are pretty raunchy. What were the parents thinking who brought their children to Radio City at Christmas? I find it...
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    Fanny came out at a time when film musicals were out of fashion which is why it and Irma use the musical numbers as background music. Unless of course it was Rodgers and Hammerstein or huge successes like Music Man and Gypsy.
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    In a theater like the Warner Cinerama did they make the screen smaller for 70mm Cinerama? Do you know the dimensions of the screen for the 3 strip as opposed to the single strip? And what were the differences of the curvature? I wonder if there were those who said but this isn't really Cinerama...
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    Well I like Maytime a lot. It's a long lumbering film but Barrymore is fantastic and when you get to the end as hokey as it is I feel it's tremendously moving. And how can you not like The Merry Widow or San Francisco? Oh that's right we were talking about Wessonality in a fjord. Well I bit the...
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    Laurel and Hardy? Thems fighting words.
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    And even if their movies don't merit bluray releases it's unfortunate you have such a condescending attitude towards MacDonald and Eddy, Jane Powell and Eleanor Powell. And of all people Mario Lanza!
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    Actually PYW, GMC and OACDYCSF are movie musical masterpieces compared to Mame. I like all 3 of them. And probably all did considerably better at the box office. And if you can put out Bells Are Ringing, Kismet, and Deep in My Heart on bluray you sure can put out Till the Crowd Roll By...
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    There are quite a few major MGM musicals that are waiting for deluxe bluray treatment. I hope they do them but I'm beginning to feel they may no longer be worth it for the company. If Mame can get a bluray...That was a bizarre choice. Not only was it a terrible movie and a bomb it looked soft...
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    Till the Clouds Roll By also has the completely dull and uneventful life problem as well. Though Kern did oversleep and miss his passage on the Lusitania. His traveling companion the producer Charles Frohman did make it and his punctuality cost him his life.
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    Finian's Rainbow was '68. Norway was '70. Therefore Norway played in the Cinerama after it was triplexed. I was never in the theater before the slicing and dicing but thought the Cinerama was the retained orchestra with no modification but the balcony cut off. Anybody who was in the theater...
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    If there is anything I'm a sucker for it's a Cinerama travelogue. I'll skip Florence singing and the trolls.
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