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Splendor In The Grass
#25re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 2:45amWow!! I feel better that I am not alone. I love Lucille Ball too. Was she perfect for this role? Probably not, but I loved her just the same.
#26re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 2:48am
She wasn't bad, but she wasn't great.
She got off to a weak start with It's Today, but seemed to get better as the movie went on.
Which is weird b/c I'm sure it wasn't filmed in sequence.
I love the one new song he wrote for Robert Preston also.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#27re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 2:53amI Love LUCY!MAME. It's just a lot of fun filled froth. Although I don't like the way they made Pegrin (sp?) the maid versus Interior Decorator...I felt like it all fell apart then.
#28re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:40amYeah!! Two more people that love Mame. To think, all this time I thought I was alone.
#29re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:45amI know it's practically sacrilege, but I preferred MAME to AUNTIE MAME. Let the flaming begin!
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#30re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:47am
they're both great in different ways.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#31re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:48am
Agreed taz.
Too bad Angie didn't get to preserve this on film...at least non-silent home movie film.
#32re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:51am
I'm surprised they haven't done a revival of this.
There's gotta be a star who could make it work.
#33re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:52amI really disliked Peggy Cass' Agnes Gooch, though.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#34re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:54am
There is a star Taz, Lauren Graham.
She's 40, can sing, has the comedy, has the ability to be serious. She'd be perfect. Plus she is a bankable name.
#35re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:57amWell, there a Broadway-bound Kennedy Center production a couple years back with Christine Baranski which never materialized.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#36re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:03am
SM2-
For a *very* good reason.
#37re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:05amWait, dind't Jane Connell play Gooch in the movie?
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#38re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:10amJane did Lucy!Mame, not Roz!Mame
#39re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:11amYou saw Christine's MAME, husk?
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#40re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:20amNot in the conventional sense. It was pretty bad.
#41re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 7:45am
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbft-6o4MQs
RetroBoy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/1/07
#42re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 8:11am
wow this thread went from "splendor in the grass" to "mame"...very funny.
i love "splendor in the grass". i can relate to it. barbara loden as beatty's sister does some stellar work in the film.
as far as "mame" goes, well, um...yeah, so i loved "splendor in the grass".
#43re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 8:50am
Yay! I've been waiting for this day!
I thoroughly enjoyed Mame, and Lucy in the role too. I would watch it right now if it were on!
Whew, there, I said it!
#44re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:15amLucy's MAME is brilliant.
#45re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:25am
The lady who played Sally Field's creepy mother in "Sybil" is in Splendor In the Grass too! She's the school teacher toward the beginning of the movie.
That woman gives me the willies.
TRIVIA: When Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins were working on casting the film of West Side Story, they arranged for an early screening of "Splendor in the Grass" to check out the young Warren Beatty for the part of Tony.
Turns out, that screening is where they finally found their Maria, instead.
I've only ever held one Academy Award before... and it was William Inge's Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Splendor.
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#46re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:50amAnd yes, Barbara Loden was awesome as Bud's drunk, party-happy sister.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#47re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:51am"Everyone's wild about Mabel, she's the talk of the town. Mabel's willing and able..."
#48re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:52am:)
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#49re: Splendor In The Grass
Posted: 6/27/08 at 9:54am
That woman gives me the willies.
Me too! It's that weird, flat, almost Louise Fletcher voice of hers that does it for me.
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