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So Damn Yankees for March. Very happy I got to see Jerry Lewis on stage in it.

It's not 1956 either. Also in the trailer Day flashes her red panties in the 'curtain call' which she does not do in the actual film so they're using different takes. Her Hey There reprise is better than the new song. And Frank Loesser wrote There Once Was a Man.

Which is what happened when your restoration of MFL opened at the Ziegfeld. Janet Maslin reviewed it in the Times and and it was such a rave that I wondered if she had seen the film before. Had it tarnished in her memory? It then went on to sellout at just about every performance(I knew of...

But they left in she can sew a button on a fly like she's pouring tea.

Yes for me the highlight of the film for me is not the slick Steam Heat which in the original Broadway production must have blown the roof off the St James and turned it into a sellout hit(two of the dancers you see were the originals and the third originated the role of Bernardo in WSS. The...

As already said the whole thing with the knives in the second half where he runs after Gladys throwing them...well I don't know what's the point. It's not only silly but unpleasant. Outside of filling up time it serves no purpose either as drama or humor. The old vaudevillian Eddie Foy Jr is...

I ordered mine two days ago and got it this afternoon. Who did you order it from? Not only do you see Harvey Evans throughout the film(I saw him first as Young Buddy in Follies) but you also see Bob Banas and it's not even listed on his IMDB. Both alive. I saw Evans last as DeMille in Sunset...

In an evening with Stanley Donen I went to he himself said due to the budget it was not filmed in stereo. Oddly even his Funny Face from earlier in the year does not seem to have been filmed in stereo. A performance on a stage is not going to necessarily translate well to the screen which is...

I keep saying Gordon Macrae would have been perfect in the role and Shirley Maclaine should have been Gladys. A bit more movie star power and charm would have turned it up a couple of notches. It would have been more memorable than it is. It also should have been filmed in stereo but Warner was...

How does one cancel a post?

My delivery date for Good News has been all over the place. Now it is Tues. We will see.

Interesting because there are those who think the early 60s was the low point for American films. Not me. By the way there's a really good documentary on Pauline Kael on Amazon Prime. Despite disagreeing about almost every film ever made I enjoy her writings enormously. I bring this up because...

Will Krupp you didn't grow up listening to TPG obc? Oh god I'm old. '57 was an amazing year for movies at Radio City. Funny Face, Prince and the Showgirl, Silk Stockings, Pajama Game, Les Girls, and Sayanora. And Harold Prince gets his name twice in the credits for TPG! As he was preparing the...