Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
#1Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Posted: 10/17/08 at 1:50pm
I wanted to post this when she died a few months ago, but I couldn't find my old VHS tape of the very bad "New Faces" movie.
Ignore the nonsensical "reaction" shots of young Robert Clary--and just watch a great comedienne at an early age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc5eqmucGl4
#2re: Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Posted: 10/17/08 at 2:02pm
Thanks for this!!
I never knew how strong her voice was!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#2re: Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Posted: 10/17/08 at 3:45pmIt was also the debut of Paul Lynde and Eartha Kitt.
#3re: Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Posted: 10/17/08 at 3:53pm
I love this bad movie, if only for a chance to see these incredible "new faces" and to hear those terrific songs.
It's also out on DVD now, and it's letterboxed, although the quality is crap. (I think this movie is Public Domain.)
Eartha Kitt is fantastic singing "C'est si bon," "Monotonous," and her big #1 hit "Santa Baby."
My favorite is "The Trial of Lizzy Borden" presented as a full-on hoedown square dance. It's so goofy, it works.
Also Carol Lawrence, Ronny Graham and Bill Mullikin.
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#4re: Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Posted: 10/17/08 at 3:58pmDont forget Bal, Petit Bal!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#5re: Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Posted: 10/17/08 at 4:05pmI like Robert Clary's song, "I'm in Love With Miss Logan," too!
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#6re: Alice Ghostley 'The Boston Beguine'
Posted: 10/18/08 at 12:08am
I bought a copy of the DVD and it has only two chapters! One for "New Faces" and one for an episode of some show with Morey Amsterdam.
Though the cutting away to the backstage story is done so horribly! They cut away to it during some of the numbers, including "Monotonous"!
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