Dorothy Loudon

I just watched her perform "Fifty Percent" on a DVD of a Leading Ladies Concert at Carnegie Hall.

She made me cry.

What a first class performer and woman.

When you talk about underappreciated performers, I don't think anyone tops the list more than Loudon. She was a gem.

I would have loved to meet her.

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Her performance on the Sondheim at Carnegie Hall concert DVD is fantastic, she sings Losing My Mind and combines it with You Could Drive A Person Crazy...it goes from being hauntingly touching, to being brilliantly hilarious...she really was a gem, as you say.

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She also has a small role in a wonderful film, Garbo Talks. I'm not sure, but I don't think this has made it to DVD yet. What a shame, she was a true great.

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Oh, how I wish I could have seen her on stage.

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I agree Raithnait62! The theatrical community was quite aware and appreciative of her extraordinary talent.

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I first saw Dorothy Loudon when she became a replacement for Carol Burnett on the Gary Moore TV show (1962-64) A full list of her credits are at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521702/

I too enjoyed Garbo Talks. I think it's a sweet little movie. I'm sad that she had to leave the cast for Dinner at Eight. She would have been so much better as Carlotta Vance than Marion Seldes was. Seldes is too much of a lady, whereas Dorothy Loudon would have played her as a broad, the way Marie Dressler did in the movie.

Lauren Bacall plays her in the TV remake, and there, too, she's too much of a lady.
Carlotta is loud and brassy. Think how marvelous Dorothy Loudon would have been in that production!

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Updated On: 1/26/07 at 02:52 PM

I too enjoyed Garbo Talks. I think it's a swet little movie.

Ever hear the rumor that Garbo was actually in the film?

Publicity still from Dorothy sitcom. Dorothy and Russell:

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The woman could definitely put a song over! I have her two cds. She does a great "Ten Cents A Dance". I wish she had recorded another cd. There are so many songs that she should have sung.

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For some reason, I think she looks so much like Ellen Burstyn. Perhaps it is just me.

A small sidenote is that "Garbo Talks" is actually being written as a musical.

Saw her in

The Fig Leaves Are Falling
Ballroom
Annie

If I am not mistaken, she was also in Lolita which closed out of town.

After so many flops, she finally hit the jackpot with Annie. One of a kind

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Updated On: 1/26/07 at 05:41 PM

Even though I saw her in "Noises Off," because I never saw her in a musical, I feel like I never really saw her in a show.

I wish that someone would re-release all of those Ben Bagley Revisited CDs. She sang so many great songs on those. On one of the Rodgers and Hart albums, sings this perfect little heartbreaker called "Bye and Bye" (which the notes said was written to be played up-tempo).

And hopefully, Charlotte Rae's "Songs I Taught My Mother" will be such a smash that "they" will start looking for other similar albums to release on CD and Dorothy Loudon's "Live at the Blue Angel" will finally be available again.

Dorothy Loudon is one of those people who I don't like to think about their being dead because it makes the world seem like that much more a dismal place...

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