Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
#0Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 9/6/04 at 3:02pm
As Veda or The Mermaid?
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#1re: Do You Prefer Ann Blythe
Posted: 9/6/04 at 7:41pm
Love this thread.
I grew up watching both PEABODY and PIERCE on tv. They are black and white still shots in my late 1950's brain. Then, when I was a young teen, she started selling hostess twinkies on TV. Everytime she said "...cupcakes and Ho Ho's..." I giggled.
But back to your point: PEABODY was magic to me, everything about it was alluring (of course, it's worth studying -- a middle aged man having a sexual fantasy about a woman who ... uh... doesn't really have the means to consumate the act is quite a rich tale, or should I say 'tail.') Still, she's forever Veda. Every time I see her say "...my mother, a common waitress..." I want to smack her.
#2re: Do You Prefer Ann Blythe
Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:05pmBump.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#3re: Do You Prefer Ann Blythe
Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:09pmI prefer her as Marsinah, in KISMET. My parents tell of a production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, where she was costumed in completely inappropriate dresses, with color-matching shoes, as Maria.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#4re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:41pm
I've only seen her in 2 movies.
Mildred Pierce and Kismet
I liked her in both.
Updated On: 9/11/05 at 03:41 PM
#5re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:44pm
She's pretty as the Mermaid.
Never says a word.
#6re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:44pmyes, i SAW ann in that SOUND OF MUSIC tour. sadly, i do not remember her costumes. i mostly remember how dreary the play was compared to the movie.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#7re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 9/11/05 at 4:18pm
No no no no no no no! The best was Kathie in "The Student Prince". (All I have to do is say the title and I start crying!)
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mamie4 5/14/03
#8re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:26am
She's just to deliciously evil in Mildred Pierce. How can you not like her after watching her young teenage ass slap the crap out of Crawford?
And living to tell the tale!
supafreak
Chorus Member Joined: 7/13/05
#9re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:30am
I dont know Ann Blythe, but I love Blythe Danner.
yuk yuk yuk
#10re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 10/7/05 at 10:12pmbump
etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#11re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 10/8/05 at 1:54amI second Mamie's choice.
#12re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 10/8/05 at 8:13amI prefer her in The Helen Morgan Story, with singing by Gogi Grant.
#14re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 11/2/05 at 9:09pmBump.
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#16re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 11/3/05 at 2:33pm
Absolutely voting for the Hostess Cupcakes commercials!!
I love the Designing Women when Charlene starts to blather about Ann Blythe and that commercial!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#17re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 11/3/05 at 5:27pm
Gogi Grant! Didn't she seen "The Wayward Wind?"
But since we first commented on this a year ago, has anyone seen PEABODY? Is it on video or DVD? I haven't seen it in years. By the way -- Douglass Wallop, who wrote the novel DAMN YANKEES was based on, also wrote a mermaid in the pool book. Must've been a major fantasy at some point. But I never understand why, again, since a fish woman has only ... gills.
#18re: Do You Prefer Ann Blyth
Posted: 4/15/06 at 10:27amWhat's on TCM this weekend?
Videos