also 1956 is the date of my fair lady on stage: the film is 1964
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 11:25 (nine months ago) link
GBS, HG Wells and Dickens were certainly interesting choices for musicals!
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 11:36 (nine months ago) link
i raise you chitty chitty bang bang, dr dolittle and the von trapps
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 11:49 (nine months ago) link
The available clips of Audrey H singing Eliza suggest that she'd have been fine, but this was still very much not how it worked in Hollywood musicals
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 12:58 (nine months ago) link
i found this quote (via quora) from http://www.julieandrewsonline.com/news/1960_news/maccalls_1966.html:
Did you do any special studying before you tackled Eliza?
JA: I ran the original movie with Wendy Hiller* over and over again and bawled every time. I studied cockney with an American professor of phonetics – here I was English, learning cockney from an American! – but I'm not very good at accents. Most of the work, I frankly confess, happened during performances – I didn't know what I was doing until about three months after we opened. Even with all of Moss Hart's help, I had to learn onstage, so to speak, and it's the best way to learn – if you can get away with it!
*(viz PYGMALION, 1938, in which hiller, born cheshire, was apparently first person to say "bloody" in a british film: "not bloody likely!")
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 14:06 (nine months ago) link
mr doolittle in that version is an absolute marvel, disgusting
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 14:35 (nine months ago) link
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 12:58 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
It's worth pointing out too that Jeremy Brett was apparently rather a good singer but they decided not to use his voice and so ruined the best song in the film by shooting him wandering around in the middle distance so you couldn't see his lips move.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 08:17 (nine months ago) link
Audrey is at her best and worst in Charade, on Amazon now and one of my comfort movies.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2024 00:23 (nine months ago) link
Oof -- scanning the thread spoiled it a bit to find out they were actually related, but only distantly. I rather liked the possibility they were identical twins but were in a real life Parent Trap situation.
Anyways, Kate Mulgrew (and Dana Carvey) are always shoe-ins for a Kathere-inactor but who could credibly be Audrey?
Because it's not Jennifer Love Hewitt!https://static.wixstatic.com/media/021143_1601fe32acb64d36834548c7b7a89077.jpg/v1/crop/x_295,y_217,w_1719,h_2322/fill/w_388,h_688,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/heplovex.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 January 2024 00:41 (nine months ago) link
Tavi Gevinson?
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 4 January 2024 02:30 (nine months ago) link
Ariana Grande imo
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 4 January 2024 04:50 (nine months ago) link
chan marshall could have summoned the vibe at one time
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 January 2024 06:24 (nine months ago) link
they tried with Audrey Tatou but it never really took
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:38 (nine months ago) link
It's curious how Audrey Hepburn suggests a shorter actress when she actually stood 5'7". Ariana Grande is 5'1" and Tavi Gevinson 5 feet even.
― Josefa, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:34 (nine months ago) link
Yes I noticed she was pretty tall in My Fair Lady.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:43 (nine months ago) link
tavi gevinson is a horrible actress, based on the one half season of revived gossip girl I attempted to watch. that disqualifies her completely
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:30 (nine months ago) link
but _does it_?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:50 (nine months ago) link
yes
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:00 (nine months ago) link
deems was having a chuckle.
the fans of a big movie star have such a powerful attachment to their idol that it requires exceptional acting ability to convincingly impersonate them. it doesn't matter how much or little acting ability the movie star may have had.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:06 (nine months ago) link