SOUND OF MUSIC on ABC Family...did they leave out something? — Page 2

Mary Martin used to tell the perhaps apocryphal story that, during rehearsals for the original play, the Oscar came down to the theater and handed her a slip of paper. They had been waiting for him to finish the intro to "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" and, despite his severe illness, he had managed to jot down, “A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it. A song's not a song 'til you sing it. Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love 'til you give it away!”

That was the last time she saw him alive.



Now even if that's made up, it's great theater.......

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I always prefer the movie over the stage version when it comes to The Sound of Music.

allofmylife:

I too had heard that story, and as you said it's a great one even if perhaps stretched.

I have a very rare Disneyland LP record with a Disney-style booklet/jacket that features Mary Martin singing and telling the story of "The Sound of Music." It was made sometime in the mid-1960's. In it, she sings "A Bell is no Bell" on it's own. Obviously, the lyrics were very near and dear to her.

I find "Edelweiss" to be among the simplest, but most endearing songs to ever come out of musical theatre. R&H were very gifted men.

The Disneyland album is rare? I find those all the time here in Dallas.

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Mary Martin must have done a lot of those Disney albums. I remember having the "Sleeping Beauty" LP (yes, records) with her narrating and singing all the songs.

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THANK GOD I REALLY CAN LIVE WITHOUT THAT SONG!

How do you not own this on DVD?

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Get a VHS or an early remaster- Popular Science just said that, since the green grass was literally painted green to make it look more lush, the effect is terribly obvious in Blu-Ray or HD transfers of the film, but it looks naturalistic on earler transfers.

Pauline Kael always struck me as an intensely miserable and frustrated woman. It clearly comes across in her writing.

SOUND OF MUSIC is one of many movies that cannot be altered or edited in any way, shape or form even when it's shown on television. ABC Family inserts commercial breaks but cannot cut the film to make room for them.

Are you sure that's right? I'm just curious what that means for R-rated movies, or actually any movie that has anything in it that would be an FCC violation. Can those movies no longer be shown on broadcast tv?