Shira, I, for one, am part Italian!
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
No Italian here!
Hi Shira, how is the paper? C13 did not commit adequate time to her science test for tomorrow.
Wow! Well, since I don't wish to incorporate BWWW into Dante, no reason I can't incorporate Dante into BWW!
It's on my netflix cue, Ms. P!
Oh, good, DD. I ADORE Danny Kaye, and this has always been my favorite of his films. Plus, a lot of the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz are in The Court Jester. And that was nearly 20 years later!
Shira, I think you have a bestseller on your hands. Start writing "The BWW Inferno"!!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
I saw one of the Munchkins recently on an airplane. She was on her way to a convention.
LOL
You know, there are only a few munchkins still alive. Meinhardt Raabe (the coroner) is one of them, and he's 91! (He was also the Oscar Meyer guy, anyone remember that?)
It was fun seeing familiar faces from The Wizard of Oz in The Court Jester, but I felt so bad because none of them were credited on-screen.
The pellet with the poison's in the chalice from the palace.
Not any more! Someone broke the chalice from the palace!
(HI, GH!!!!!)
That darn chalice...
I hadn't remembered that she said, "Someone broke the chalice from the palace." It just struck me as being so funny today!
Danny Kaye says, in the frightened, voice-cracking way he was famous for, "Someone broke the chalice from the palace????"
To which Mildred Natiwck sayd, "Now, the...." (Fill in the blanks, GH!)
Pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Boy, you are good!
Thanks to a misspent childhood.
Here's what I realized about that movie today: except for Danny Kaye, EVERYONE plays the straight man!
Angela Lansbury was gorgeous in this film!
She'll jump!
"If it pleases you so much, YOU marry Griswold!"
Totally back to a previous topic, but the Munchkins stayed in a hotel in City where I live. The Wizard of Oz was filmed in good old Culver City (home of the studio once known as MGM). There was actually an article in todays paper about the Culver Hotel and its most famous guests.
Hi, YWIW! Actually, this is not a previous topic exactly because many of the Munchkins (billed en masse as "The Singing Midgets," unfortunately) were in The Court Jester. Have YOU seen it? You must!
I think I recall it from my childhood - but I cannot swear.
I do love Danny Kaye though.
Is that the same one based upon a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
Ha ha! That movie is like a cross between Court Jester and Walter Mitty!
Danny Kaye was so fab, and I think he is truly underrated! He's the best part of White Christmas, in my opinion.
Complete with feathers...
"She wore the dress...and I stayed home!"
4 pages 'done', 6 (minimum) to go.
I'm on to my part on still religious imagery in early modern europe....
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