Do You Like Ann Blyth

[Glebb]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 8:22pm

better as Veda or The Mermaid?

Updated On: 4/18/05 at 08:22 PM

[wildcat]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 8:30pm

Veda and Marsinah.

There was something fishy about the mermaid, Mr. Peabody....

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/17/05 at 11:27pm

I was always a Mitzi Gaynor / Florence Henderson man myself

[AndyHardy]

Posted: 4/18/05 at 8:59am

Okay, Glebb, the title of this thread brought me out of lurking mode. HA!! You really come up with some brilliant threads -- or at least 100% original!!

Um, Miss Blyth was actually an all right performer (in the few films of hers that I've seen) with a pretty amazing voice. M-G-M's replacement for the exited Jane Powell (I believe).

Listen to her and Vic Damove duet "Stranger In Paradise" from Kismet. It's all there. She was an okay actress (minus a few laughably horrible moments in Rose Marie) but she really came too late to the M-G-M musical. Much like Delores Grey. Just joined to party at its sad commencement. But don't discount Ann Blyth -- after years of having ear-aches listening to Kathryn Grayson, its nice M-G-M cane up with a soprano less taxing on the ears.

*edit* Oh, and I don't have preference between those two roles you mentioned. :)

Updated On: 4/18/05 at 08:59 AM

[Glebb]

Posted: 4/18/05 at 9:13am

Even though she does not utter a sound as the Mermaid?

Brilliant or at least 100%. I accept! :)

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 4/18/05 at 9:20am

Veda. All the way....a true camp classic.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/18/05 at 9:54am

I love Ann Blyth in The Helen Morgan Story, especially because of the surreal replacement of herentirely appropriate operetta-like voice, which sounded liked the actual voice of Helen Morgan, with the inappropriate belting voice of Gogi Grant, which was somehow completely fabulous. (And a yummy young Paul Newman plays the guy-who-done-her-wrong.)

Ann Blyth's star-hits-the-bottom performance is a camp classic that set the stage for Patty Duke's Neely O'Hara.

We love Ann.