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  1. I hadn't heard your story before, Miles.  Thanks for sharing it.

     

    Debbie Reynolds had been earmarked to play the leading female role in a movie and even made a screen test for it.  However, the male star of the movie felt all along that she was wrong for the part.  After The Powers That Be viewed the test, they had to agree with the male star and another actress was hired.  Can you name the movie, the actress that got the part and the male star?

  2. Love Me or Leave Me is correct.  

     

    It is hard to imagine Doris Day as Mrs. Robinson, but it sure would have been interesting to see her in such a different role and who knows?  Her career might have taken a whole new direction if she had played the part.

     

    Your thread, Miles.

  3. The show was Babes in Arms and the only 2 songs that were kept from the original score were the title song and "Where or When," although "The Lady Is a Tramp," also from the show, was heard as background music whenever June Preisser appeared on screen.  

     

    "I Wish I Were in Love Again" was dropped because it was considered too sophisticated for Mickey and Judy at the time, but they got the chance to sing it in Words and Music.  In addition to that song, three other songs that were cut from Babes in Arms were heard in Words and Music - Judy sang "Johnny One Note," Lena Horne sang "The Lady Is a Tramp," and Betty Garrett was heard singing a shortened version of "Way Out West."  

     

    Frank Sinatra sang "The Lady Is a Tramp" and Kim Novak sang "My Funny Valentine" in Pal Joey.   

  4. This movie started out as a Broadway musical with the leading male role played by a dancer who went on to fame in the movies.  When adapted for the screen, the same role was played by a singer.  Can you name the movie and the two male stars who played the role?  

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