lavenderblue19 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 EDWARD MY SON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 EDWARD MY SON Yes. Yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 A woman helps a woman out of very serious trouble by switching clothes with her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 A woman helps a woman out of very serious trouble by switching clothes with her Wild guess---STAGE FRIGHT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Sorry, thinking about another film, but it does involve being a maid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON is correct mr6. Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. Good work, your thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Your thread mr 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 -Erie canal barge owner's looking for a 'driver' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 The Farmer Takes a Wife ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Yup, this is the version I saw recently.... (so-so musical with Betty Grable) your thread, flash..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Thanks, Sixes, and Merry Christmas. Next up: Call this Western the anti - High Noon. In that classic, a lawman visits a church, interrupting a service, asking for help with a pending problem. The worshipers all find reasons to decline to support him. By contrast: In this one, the members of a congregation stand up and, one by one, swear to help a fellow member by keeping his dangerous secret. ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Heaven with a Gun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Season's greetings, Terrence. No, that's not it. This one also has a very entertaining 'barn dance' sequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Merry Christmas ! I wasn't sure about my choice this morning, but that hint cinched it: The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Right. That dance routine caught Russ Tamblyn somewhere between Seven Brides/Brothers and Westside Story. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Next: The producers' original plan was to have the two leads of the original musical's Broadway cast (1 male, 1 female) reprise their roles for the film, but the male lead died. Both leads were replaced. A very famous actress of the time suffered stage fright during her audition and was rejected - which was odd since she had been a child star and had grown up in the business. All of the songs from the stage production were retained for the film. There was even one song cut from the stage production added back to the film. One of the differences between the film version and the Broadway version of the musical is that the first and second scenes of the play are switched around, together with all the songs contained in those two scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Hint: The very famous actress who was stagestruck was a real Dame and her husband was about as famous an actor as she was an actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Hint: About halfway through the film, there is a Rodgers and Hammerstein song which was later adopted by a major personal care product company as a tv ad jingle to promote one of it's products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Well.I'm back after a few days away from the boards. I didn't need that last clue to know that it's "South Pacific". The original Broadway stars when the show opened in 1949 were Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin. By the time the movie version was made in 1958, Ezio Pinza had passed away and Mary Martin was probably a bit too old for the part of Nellie. Doris Day and Howard Keel were considered for the leads, but they were under contract to other studios and were not made available. That's too bad because I think that Doris Day would have made a perfect Nellie. It was Elizabeth Taylor who got stage fright when she auditioned, or so the story goes. Since she neither sang nor danced, her singing would have had to have been dubbed and the dancing would have been very minimal. Mitzi Gaynor was a good choice, and I think that Debbie Reynolds could have done a good job in the role, but Liz? The song "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" was adapted by Clairol as a commercial jingle, substituting the word gray for man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Got 'em all, Miles. Nice one! Merry Christmas Your thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Thank you, Kid. Happy Holidays to you and everyone on these boards! Now, an actor, who would go on to become a western star, played the fiance of Alice Faye in a movie that involved a shipboad romance. He ends up losing her to the film's leading man, who was played by an actor who would later become a TV star. Can you name the movie and the two actors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I'm thinking that would be Stowaway with Allan Lane playing the fiance and Robert Young the leading man who wins Alice Faye in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Gee, what took you so long, Starliteyes? Yes, that would be Allan "Rocky" Lane and Robert "Margaret I'm Home" Young in a movie that starred little Shirley Temple. Your turn, Starliteyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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