This was the era when actors could act.Everything was put together well scripts,costumes,sets,music.Gives one a fantasy,realistic view of that world.....Worth The Watch.
Mario sang many of the love songs in recordings but if you listen closely it is not his voice in this film. His accents and pronunciations are too thick. Mario's voice was much smoother .
Only if such great films are made in this 21st Century. Great film ever made. The splendour of the costumes, acting and action scenes are just remarkable and very natural.
A wonderfully great movie in every way. The music & voices are among the finest ever filmed, in my humble opinion. The sets, costumes, & story are lovely. It remains among one of my favorite all-time musicals. Thank you very much for posting it. Thank you for your time & effort in doing this. I, for one, am extremely grateful. You see, I ridded myself of television years ago & rely on You Tube for my entertainment...movies, etc. Thank you again.
Watching this one (which is a good movie, because of MARIO LANZA'S SINGING), makes me eagerly look for the RONALD COLMAN VERSION, just to listen to Mr. Colman say, "IF I WERE KING"! Ahhh, Mr. Ronald Colman! "The Brothers", would say, "You had a 'Great Rap', way before people even knew what a 'Rap' was!" (P.S., It seems that I am in serious error in my comments about this movie. I was under the misassumption that Mr. Mario Lanza provided the Singing voice for the 'lead' in this musical of "The Vagabond King". I've recently learned that the actor who played the lead character, Msr. Francois Villanova performed his own singing in this film. He sounds so much like Mr. Lanza, that I totally swore that it was Mr. Lanza I was listening to. My most profound apologies to the TH-cam.com Movies and TV community for my arrogant error.
Horses are the main means of transport, yet the streets are spotless. Everything in this movie is so pretty, the heroes, the villains, the scenery. How is this NOT a Disney Movie?
@@fritula6200 Canadian cities are really good that way. Except for a few areas they're very clean, even the less pleasant areas. The spots with garbage and needles are very, very rare.
Oreste Kirkop is the first opera tenor that has turned Operas from Italian to English & sung At Covet Garden London & New York. He is a Maltese & comes from a great musical family.............now he R.I.P.
Mario Lanza's voice has never been equalled. hewas trully a crossover artist. His renditions of operatic arias were, without a doubt, the very best in the world. just listen to his operatic arias whch are unmatched. Mario forever!!
Mario Lanza was indeed a great singer. Almost as good as Caruso ... it's difficult to compare though because the recording techniques in Caruso's time were lacking in quality. Sad. Nevertheless, I love Mario Lanzas voice too. God-given. Such a voice is rare indeed. Talent combined with training. A dying art. Kirkop I didn't know - so thanks for the information. Why don't they make them like that anymore?
Norma Hobson , We all have our preferences, and mine is Juan Diego Florez. Yes, Mario Panza had a great voice, but, as far as I am aware, he never sang in, opera. That requires a singer whose voice carries to the back of the great opera and concert halls, without the benefit of microphones and other 'enhancements'. Even a moderately good singer can sound amazing with the little aids used in films. As you seem to enjoy good music, Google Juan Diego. I have never heard better, and he has film star looks too!
+Rebecca Salazar we are of a few hundred that enjoy movies like this. sadly, hollywood needs several thousand to even suggest a production start. Russell Crowe in "Gladiator"
not every old film is a classic. not every modern film is 'rubbish'. many new films are exceedingly good. you just have to sift through all the not so pleasant ones to find them. strangely enough, you have to do the same thing with old films. there are many, MANY very, VERY low quality ones.
Rita Moreno! Just a humble girl from Puerto Rico - she must have been so thrilled to be filming in 15th century Paris with the legendary François Villon!
By her own accounts (Moreno's), she: 01. Lived in the mainland since the age of three; 02. Never had a Latin accent. Such was feigned in the movies, to accommodate for the roles she would be assigned to play.
I just finished a different version of this story in the movie, "If I Were King," starring Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone! It was very well done and not a musical.
True. But nothing Rita made, including the dazzling classics, West Side Story and The King and I - made Rita happy. She had a good, solid career. Way better than some of her peers. Enough already.
Sir, People who see the modern movies for what they really are, & still have appreciation for movies of the Age of Decency, show that the GOOD IS STILL With The Majority.
Because the quality of the audiences has deteriorated from immigration and from interbreedin. Also because of massive mind-control and sorcery on the part of the leaders of the corporations.
@@stevequizodlibumpbumpbump3575 The fault lies ENTIRELY with the dumbing down AND destruction of entertainment ... by the communist elements (social justice and feminism) which have taken over the West. Immigration and breeding have nothing to do with it ...
I don’t mean to be rude, but “interbreeding”? As someone who’s Greek, Italian, German, and Irish, (some who have been here since the 1800s, others since the 1940s), I can’t agree with this part of your comment… now the “mind control” part in the other hand is a much more understandable argument 😅
The film was considered to such a monumental turkey that Paramount refused to release it for two years. Katherine Grayson and Oreste Kirkup loathed each other intensely, and only spoke when they had to - he managed to sing the songs phonetically, but couldn't speak the dialogue, which was dubbed entirely by another actor. Thankfully, the highly acclaimed, charm free Oreste was never seen again. The only saving grace was that Paramount were able to use some of the sets for The Court Jester. Considering that Katherine Grayson had been terrific in Kiss Me Kate, it was sad that she was forced to make this bomb - her last film.
I loved this film when my mother took me to the Davis Theatre in Croydon. I sang all the songs both tenor and soprano. I bought the LP which I lost some 29 years ago; but I can still remember all the words though now I am a Contralto/Basso Profundo.
Oh my God, they are singing, it's a musical movie , M U S I C A L !!! No knights tournaments, no swording, no blood, only killing by singing.I hope i die first.
I haven't heard or seen this movie i think its Magnificent one i was 5 yrs old when this was filmed Hallelujah im just watching it now see how i go thank you kindly & muchly for Sharing🙏🤣🐕👍!!!
I've loved The Vagabond King since I was a kid; I was eight years old when it was released. Just this week I found out that before it was a musical it was a novel and stage play. Both were titled If I Were King. The film version starred Ronald Coleman as Francois Villon and Basil Rathbone as Louis XI. I recommend watching both movies back to back. th-cam.com/video/rRRIq-Mwzhc/w-d-xo.html
I'm halfway through with this version of the story & I have to admit that I prefer -hands down - the older movie with Basil Rathbone as Louis XI. This one is grating on my nerves with all the tomcat-on-a-fence-post-screeching.
The sets and costumes are as good as they can get for this kind of production. The acting and writing needed improvement, but I think this was made just for the sake of getting it out to fulfill a contract on someone's part.
It is a remake of an earlier movie with music thrown in. If you have never seen it then try it but don't feel bad if you abandon it part way through the viewing.
Rita Moreno's singing voice was dubbed by Broadway actress Laurie Carroll. Oreste Kirkop was a Covent Garden tenor, so his actual singing voice was used, but his SPEAKING voice had to be dubbed by film actor Elliot Reid.
Robert Waldren IMO there were several other factors much more important than that. His voice didn't even approach the beauty and strength of Mario Lanza. I'm in complete agreement that Mario was "The greatest voice of the 20th century."
+Robert Waldren Sorry but he did not need to be the next Mario Lanza as he was a great singer who sang in the greatest opera houses in the world which Mario Lanza never did he was only a movie star a good singerbut only in Movies
The Vagabond King is a 1956 musical film adaptation of the 1925 operetta The Vagabond King by Rudolf Friml. It starred Kathryn Grayson and Oreste Kirkop, with early roles for Rita Moreno and Leslie Nielsen. Sir Cedric Hardwicke played a notable supporting role. It was Kathryn Grayson's and Walter Hampden's last movie. Hampden, who played King Louis XI, died more than a year before its release. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes. In fifteenth century France, the irreverent beggar François Villon (tenor Oreste Kirkop) is crowned "king for a day" by King Louis XI (Walter Hampden). He patriotically rallies his fellow beggars to fight when Paris is invaded by the Burgundians. Kathryn Grayson stars as the high-born heroine, and Rita Moreno as the lusty low-born wench, whose love for Villon eventually costs her her life.
ThreeAMWoman K.G. Appeared on silver screen now and then since 1956 (she even appeared as a guest star in three episodes "Murder, She Wrote" with Angela Lansbury), but it interfered with her musical career constantly. Grayson trained from the age of twelve as an opera singer. Besides being an opera singer and an actress she also supervised the Voice and Choral Studies Program at Idaho State University. One more amusing fact for you: While shooting the Madame Butterfly scene in the film with Mario Lanza, Lanza kept attempting to french kiss Grayson, which Grayson claimed was made even worse by the fact that Lanza would constantly eat garlic before shooting. Grayson went to costume designer Helen Rose and she sewed pieces of brass into Grayson's gloves. Any time Lanza attempted to french kiss her after that, she hit him with the brass-filled glove. :-))
Thank you so very much, Natalia, for your interesting reply. I will have to look for the episodes of "Murder She Wrote" she appeared in. I have always loved K.G. since my childhood in the 1950's. Being voice chorus trained for many years...until my 20's, I appreciate her lovely & great voice...also her beauty :)
You are very welcome! It was a pleasure "talking" to you! Being an artist I appreciate beauty in all its forms, and being a romantic I appreciate music also. But one of the great disappointments of my life is the complete lack of ANY singing ability - I could not hold a note to save my life.
Oh, but you have the gift of The Arts & the gift of Appreciation, Natalia! I am also a romantic & appreciate beauty in all forms. Have artistic abilities in most ways, except drawing or painting. I regret that & sometimes feel like I could do it, but at 67 years of age, I am happy with what I have been given. It has been a pleasure speaking with you. You are an interesting person.
Mediaeval France was somewhat cleaner than I expected. But with sillier hats. Bet it was smelly though. Perhaps pumping it through the air-conditioning into the cinema was not a good marketing ploy in hindsight. Bet the taverns were rubbish too. Anyway the last time I stood on a table & started singing down the Warwick Castle I was barred. Philistines! Philistines, I tell you.
I'm always impressed by the fact that, in a culture where animals were everywhere and horses were the mode of transportation, you never see animal feces anywhere.
I had forgotten that his speaking voice was dubbed(for a change)....sort of disconcerting. I got a tape of this to Kathryn in the early 90's, as there was not a home video release. I think it held a special place for her. RIP lovely lady.
Is that Vincent Price's voice it sure sounds like him narrating this movie I've seen many old movies with my grandmother as a young girl but I don't think I've seen this one and my granddaughter just happens to be with me tonight that she'll be a great joy I just hope she can sit through this movie at the age of eight wish me luck.🤞😊😊🤞
I never thought I could dislike a Kathryn Grayson film, but this one proved me wrong. I couldn't finish it and she was my favorite singer from that era on screen by far.
A charming film, if you enjoy this may I recommend you find the earlier various, 1936 if I remember correctly? They are at once very similar and very different.
1st are you certain that is not Mario Lanza's voice sure sound's like him? 2nd great cast, great music, colorful costumes and Rita Moreno a talent that never received the recognition she deserved!
On the contrary Rita Moreno was a member of the exclusive E.G.O.T. Club (Emmy / Grammy / Oscar / Tony). Rita Moreno did receive her fair share of recognition and then some.
Movies back then were so corny; yet so entertaining, not to mention with acting - I think, - superior to today's. Come to think, they felt "real" everyday life as do most of us, unlike most of today's, who transit directly from Home to acting school, after which they're sought for their opinions on virtually everything they've never personally experienced. Oh, they vote, too!
No wonder Kathryn Grayson said this was her worst movie.... the acting is horrible, the sets are something from a high school production... however, where I disagree with her is in the singing, it's GLORIOUS! All of the songs are just fantastic and she's in as fine a voice as ever!
What great movie. Classic. Yes, it has things in it that we, with our vast benefit of education and technological/movie familiarity now can pick apart, but the savviest among us know how to view this movie - with regard to the time it was made and the costumes, effects, and methods used at the time. To judge it by deliberately viewing through a different lens is to be, well, a dick. Whatever you think, I'm guessing that everyone involved in this movie had a h*lluva a great time while they were making it.
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The main actor and singer ORESTE had a most promising career ahead of him. To safeguard Mario Lanza the mafia told Oreste to cease his Hollywood career or die. He did disappear thanks to M. Lanza.
Could you provide a link on that? Oreste Kirkop was pretty busy with the opera before, during and after the year he made The Vagabond King. I don't see why he would quit the stage, where he was already a star, to start a different career in Hollywood; he didn't even live in the US. Four years after the movie, when he was 37, his doctors told him to quit the opera if he didn't want to die onstage with a heart attack, and he retired.
Pray define "organic bacon" for li'l ol'me, please? Is it a pig who roamed the woods and only ate truffles, whose meat underwent salting with only sea salt, and was only smoked with wood taken from a virgin forest? The pig is the result of modifying genes going back past Gregor Mendel. There are no non-bred pigs extant. The salt, whatever its pedigree, is some combination of mineral salts that are all chemically similar, with no distinguishable difference (although I like the Sea Salt, which has the proportions of minerals that man was made from. As to the Hickory, there you have a point. Soaking something in a solution of smoke residue, which many unscrupulous meat packers do, is like licking an ashtray.But, I am unaware of any tree which yet lives that has been genetically modified so as to make a difference in the smoking. I am truly curious, as I am not certain which point is the one I should look into further. Other than that, your suggestion is lovely. By the way, where did that Salmon come from? This is in no way a criticism of your idea. I do my own sausage, bacon, and all kinds of charcuterie and plain old pickling and smoking. I am just vague on what constitutes an "organic" label for something as highly processed as bacon (not that I don't LOVE bacon, and all its delicious cousins like prosciutto, pancetta and Jamon)? Now, if what you meant was "homemade", I am with you, but outside of raising the pig and slaughtering it yourself, obtaining sea salt from Indian beaches, and harvesting your own wood to smoke from forests which have never known the footprint of man, I need some instruction as to what is meant by "organic" when one is referring to bacon. If you are from Maine or the Northwest, I will defer to your spectacular Salmon, which must be et directly from the Sea or River to be a real treat. You could use a smoked tire tread and it would still be Magnifico! Bye the bye, do you know that bacon originated when household pigs became fat from their human's prosperity? A lean pig's bacon will rot very fast. It takes lots of fat, salt, and smoke to give us one of God's greatest gifts to Man, which will last through a hard winter, almost any conditions, and is so very portable in its hardset form. The greatest discoveries and voyages have only been made possible by our little pig friends and their fat bellies, along with the calories and flavor they contain. By the way, get you a Brinkmann's smoker, and you won't need the bacon. I make the Realsmoker, which is a bit more Hillbilly, redneck, Bar-B-Que, and although it would, and often has, done fish fine, you would have to be cooking it for a thousand people to use it efficiently. An entire pig, split, is more our style. Or twenty chickens. Bon Appetite!
George Soros Obviously, George, you had nothing better to do than to spoil a good joke with a lot of unconnected data trivia. That was unnecessary and pedantic.
All pigs, including "wild" boars now living have some domesticated roots. Multitudes have returned to the forests in certain places, but there is no such a thing as a pig which has not been bred for purpose.
sorry but why that wrong logo? it is not VISTAVION format... VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen... Your uploading is old TV 4:3 format... it is not vistavision!
The voice is not Mario Lanza. That's was MGM's The Student Prince, which used his voice after he walked off the set, since he didn't like the director. He was replace by actor Edmund Purdom who used Lanza soundtrack. Similiar movie, but not a Lanza movie.
Mario Lanza didn't walk off the set of The Student Prince. He was carried off. Or carted off. He was so overweight that he couldn't fit into his costumes and the cameras were ready to roll.
An interesting curiosity is The Vagabond King (1956). This film was at one stage meant to star Mario Lanza and reunite him with his co-star of his first two MGM films, Kathryn Grayson. Oreste Kirkop (Villon), the operatic tenor sings a little like Lanza but didn't have much charisma and was rather charmless off-screen according to Kathryn Grayson. He retired from his operatic career in 1960 because of a serious heart ailment. A great shame that so many of the beautiful original songs were jettisoned for second rate new songs written for the film. This was indeed Kathryn's last film and the last of the great American operettas to be filmed having reached their peak with the MacDonald-Eddy films of the late 1930's; early 40's.
Nobody wanted to make it Steve. And nobody, apart from Oreste Kirkup, who thought he was going to be huge movie star wanted to be in it either. End of contracts rubbish for all concerned.
Good Film....but not the ending I thought was going to happen. Since she had to forfeit her lands and riches, the King should have bestowed the lands and titles of Burgundy to them as reward, thus turning him from vagabond to Noble, like they sang about thru the whole movie!🦂
I think I like Ronald Coleman better as Francois Villon in If I Were King. But Frances Dee is just as easy on the eyes as Kathryn Grayson. And they don't make Technicolor like this anymore. But Basil Rathbone as King Louie is a total trip in the other movie.
but there will come where this pseudo intellectual criticizing Mario Lanza, gross and grim cockroach can go somewhere to nail your blog so imbecile poison
You can buy one cheap that goes right into your computer. I have one so I could record old LPs like that onto cd's or save aas files. Google "USB turntable and you'll find many, pretty cheap. It turned out to be a good investment since hurricane Sandy wiped out my actual LPs, but not the ones I had already saved.
Clearly, this is NOT Lanza. He was an unforgettable singer with no accent as this fine gentleman had, and would have appeared in the film. Great voice for German operetta style here.however.
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Who remembers Sunday afternoon movies on T.V.? I watched this when I was10. A great classic. THANK YOU😎
Yes, they were great days. One of the benefits of you tube.
My family spent our Sunday afternoons watching old movies too.
My mom and I did! I miss the simplicity of this days .😉😊
This was the era when actors could act.Everything was put together well scripts,costumes,sets,music.Gives one a fantasy,realistic view of that world.....Worth The Watch.
Another beautiful movie of my favourite singer actor one and only mario lanza thank you so much! Expecting another one.please!
Mario Lanza is not in this movie.
@@robertm.hefley6616 Mario Lanza sang many songs from this movie on recordings/radio but never was in the film.
Mario sang many of the love songs in recordings but if you listen closely it is not his voice in this film. His accents and pronunciations are too thick.
Mario's voice was much smoother .
Only I must say:THANKS!! for giving us this fantastic film, I enjoy it !!!
Real cinema. Wow. A thousand thanks.
I cast these movies to my TV on Saturday and Sunday late night movie. Takes me back to when I was a kid. Pop some pop corn and enjoy
Only if such great films are made in this 21st Century. Great film ever made. The splendour of the costumes, acting and action scenes are just remarkable and very natural.
This musical movie is done very well.
Thank you to upload
They could not have picked a better cast!! I thank you kindly for uploading this film, I thoroughly enjoyed myself!!
Chi Hatcher so do I, I love historical movies
Totally could have picked a way better cast. Would've been even better
Maybe the budget wasn't big enough to get the better known actors. It is well done in every way, but the better known stars would make it better.
A wonderfully great movie in every way. The music & voices are among the finest ever filmed, in my humble opinion. The sets, costumes, & story are lovely. It remains among one of my favorite all-time musicals. Thank you very much for posting it. Thank you for your time & effort in doing this. I, for one, am extremely grateful. You see, I ridded myself of television years ago & rely on You Tube for my entertainment...movies, etc. Thank you again.
I agree, thank you for your time and effort.
Watching this one (which is a good movie, because of MARIO LANZA'S SINGING), makes me eagerly look for the RONALD COLMAN VERSION, just to listen to Mr. Colman say, "IF I WERE KING"! Ahhh, Mr. Ronald Colman! "The Brothers", would say, "You had a 'Great Rap', way before people even knew what a 'Rap' was!"
(P.S., It seems that I am in serious error in my comments about this movie. I was under the misassumption that Mr. Mario Lanza provided the Singing voice for the 'lead' in this musical of "The Vagabond King". I've recently learned that the actor who played the lead character, Msr. Francois Villanova performed his own singing in this film.
He sounds so much like Mr. Lanza, that I totally swore that it was Mr. Lanza I was listening to.
My most profound apologies to the TH-cam.com Movies and TV community for my arrogant error.
Horses are the main means of transport, yet the streets are spotless.
Everything in this movie is so pretty, the heroes, the villains, the scenery. How is this NOT a Disney Movie?
It reminds me of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame
Yes, l agree..... AND in modern today, the streets have all types of : "shit" on the streets:
@@fritula6200 Canadian cities are really good that way. Except for a few areas they're very clean, even the less pleasant areas. The spots with garbage and needles are very, very rare.
Oreste Kirkop is the first opera tenor that has turned Operas from Italian to English & sung At Covet Garden London & New York. He is a Maltese & comes from a great musical family.............now he R.I.P.
+Alfred Borg I am also a Maltese who loved Oreste he was a greatt singer and the Maltese were very proud of him MAY He rest IN Peace
He died, sadly, when he saw The Vagabond King. Nobody went to the funeral.
Mario Lanza's voice has never been equalled. hewas trully a crossover artist. His renditions of operatic arias were, without a doubt, the very best in the world. just listen to his operatic arias whch are unmatched. Mario forever!!
Lanza is not in this film....nor is his voice used for the singing.
The singer in this movie is Qreste Kirkop He is a Maltese born singer not Italian
Mario Lanza was indeed a great singer. Almost as good as Caruso ... it's difficult to compare though because the recording techniques in Caruso's time were lacking in quality. Sad. Nevertheless, I love Mario Lanzas voice too. God-given. Such a voice is rare indeed. Talent combined with training. A dying art.
Kirkop I didn't know - so thanks for the information.
Why don't they make them like that anymore?
Norma Hobson , We all have our preferences, and mine is Juan Diego Florez. Yes, Mario Panza had a great voice, but, as far as I am aware, he never sang in, opera. That requires a singer whose voice carries to the back of the great opera and concert halls, without the benefit of microphones and other 'enhancements'. Even a moderately good singer can sound amazing with the little aids used in films. As you seem to enjoy good music, Google Juan Diego. I have never heard better, and he has film star looks too!
He really is quite handsome, I must admit.
I JUST LOVE THE OLD MOVIES ~ I AGREE WITH STEVEN WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE QUALITY MOVIES AGAIN LIKE THIS
Rebecca Salazar ik
+Rebecca Salazar we are of a few hundred that enjoy movies like this. sadly, hollywood needs several thousand to even suggest a production start. Russell Crowe in "Gladiator"
After paying for high priced actors, all the money that's left is barely enough for green screen acting and buying scenes from other movies.
Rebecca Yes,I agree but that's not possible. We as a society are less innocent and less loving, judgmental and mean..
not every old film is a classic. not every modern film is 'rubbish'. many new films are exceedingly good. you just have to sift through all the not so pleasant ones to find them. strangely enough, you have to do the same thing with old films. there are many, MANY very, VERY low quality ones.
Yes it is a true classic one of many that featured many stars we admire and hold dear
I remember this as a kid & remember liking it. that wz Vincent Price in the beginning narration
+LIZZIE SANGI Sangi (Lizzie) yes, it is vincent
For an Old Movie such as this, >> It`s Bloody good !!!
absolutely, love this film, thank you for sharing.
I love that 😂😂❤
I remember well thank you for sharing ❤❤❤👏🙏
Rita Moreno! Just a humble girl from Puerto Rico - she must have been so thrilled to be filming in 15th century Paris with the legendary François Villon!
Don't believe every biography that you read.
By her own accounts (Moreno's), she:
01. Lived in the mainland since the age of three;
02. Never had a Latin accent. Such was feigned in the movies, to accommodate for the roles she would be assigned to play.
Considering Rita in those days, the admiration was definitely on the side of a French man this dashing
Nothing humble about the lovely Rita.
The famous crook? Who often wrote about his illegal behavior in his poems
Familiar faces. Terrific
I just finished a different version of this story in the movie, "If I Were King," starring Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone! It was very well done and not a musical.
A very good cast in this fine film
what a totally gorgeous woman - Miss Grayson
MICHAEL THE SEA HAWK CURTIZ - GREATEST DIRECTOR EVER AND FOREVER !!!!!
Over all, I thought "If I Were King" (1938) was a better telling of this story but Rita Moreno's death scene did break my heart.
Watching the documentary on her that was just on PBS, I get the impression it broke Rita's heart to keep having to play "exotic" roles like this.
Thank you x
My favorite kind of movie 🎥 😍 💕
Very charming movie.
Paramount had filmed this before in 1930, and made a non-musical version of the story in 1938 called IF I WERE KING.
The kind of role that eventually soured Moreno on Hollywood.
True. But nothing Rita made, including the dazzling classics, West Side Story and The King and I - made Rita happy. She had a good, solid career. Way better than some of her peers. Enough already.
It's a beautiful movie to watch!
Thanks for the upload not seen this since it first cams out thanks
I agree I'm 70 year old 30 year Marine 1st Sgt Rebecca is right. God Bless
Back to the Gym Thank the Good Lord for Wifi.......
$ millions spent on modern films, mostly forgetable with predictable stories, immorality, over the top violence. This film has stood the test of time.
Sir,
People who see the modern movies for what they really are,
& still have appreciation for movies of the Age of Decency,
show that the GOOD IS STILL
With The Majority.
Since long time I couldnt watch this kind movie.Casts are perfect.I enjoyed very much.I never sorry that I spent time.Thanks for posting.
OH, WHY DO THEY NOT MAKE THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE !!!
Because the quality of the audiences has deteriorated from immigration and from interbreedin. Also because of massive mind-control and sorcery on the part of the leaders of the corporations.
@@stevequizodlibumpbumpbump3575 The fault lies ENTIRELY with the dumbing down AND destruction of entertainment ... by the communist elements (social justice and feminism) which have taken over the West. Immigration and breeding have nothing to do with it ...
One simple reason: pandering to the lowest common denominator.
I don’t mean to be rude, but “interbreeding”? As someone who’s Greek, Italian, German, and Irish, (some who have been here since the 1800s, others since the 1940s), I can’t agree with this part of your comment… now the “mind control” part in the other hand is a much more understandable argument 😅
The soul is done for
The film was considered to such a monumental turkey that Paramount refused to release it for two years. Katherine Grayson and Oreste Kirkup loathed each other intensely, and only spoke when they had to - he managed to sing the songs phonetically, but couldn't speak the dialogue, which was dubbed entirely by another actor. Thankfully, the highly acclaimed, charm free Oreste was never seen again. The only saving grace was that Paramount were able to use some of the sets for The Court Jester. Considering that Katherine Grayson had been terrific in Kiss Me Kate, it was sad that she was forced to make this bomb - her last film.
Adoro filmes dessa época, porém não entendo inglês. Devia ter legenda. 😊😊😊😊😊
Did I hear Vincent Price narrating?
I loved this film when my mother took me to the Davis Theatre in Croydon. I sang all the songs both tenor and soprano. I bought the LP which I lost some 29 years ago; but I can still remember all the words though now I am a Contralto/Basso Profundo.
Oh my God, they are singing, it's a musical movie , M U S I C A L !!! No knights tournaments, no swording, no blood, only killing by singing.I hope i die first.
Didn't you read the credits ?
@@queenmedesa and you second😉
This was very theatrical. Very fun to watch
I just watched the non-musical 1938 version (if I Were King), which I liked much better.
I haven't heard or seen this movie i think its Magnificent one i was 5 yrs old when this was filmed Hallelujah im just watching it now see how i go thank you kindly & muchly for Sharing🙏🤣🐕👍!!!
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Lovely songs. Its almost a musical
I've loved The Vagabond King since I was a kid; I was eight years old when it was released. Just this week I found out that before it was a musical it was a novel and stage play. Both were titled If I Were King. The film version starred Ronald Coleman as Francois Villon and Basil Rathbone as Louis XI. I recommend watching both movies back to back.
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I'm halfway through with this version of the story & I have to admit that I prefer -hands down - the older movie with Basil Rathbone as Louis XI. This one is grating on my nerves with all the tomcat-on-a-fence-post-screeching.
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Thanks for suggestion. Following your advice, I have downloaded both the movies. You made my weekend.
@@miqbalmian I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
Amazing job guys!!
If you like this movie, try "If I were King", 1938. Same story, but with Ronald Colman, and Basil Rathbone steals the show as King Louis.
I'm here for Walter Hampden and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Thanks!
They were in the 1939 version of the hunchback of Notre dame too , which was set in the same period
Indeed! Thank you for reminding me!
The sets and costumes are as good as they can get for this kind of production. The acting and writing needed improvement, but I think this was made just for the sake of getting it out to fulfill a contract on someone's part.
It is a remake of an earlier movie with music thrown in. If you have never seen it then try it but don't feel bad if you abandon it part way through the viewing.
My dad used to sing me bits of this.
I have no idea why.
Are you and Dad still speaking??
@@jochenstossberg5427 Unfortunately no because he died in 1971.
I would like to say it was during a swordfight in a tavern, but it wasn't.
Oreste Kirkup from Malta was the actor and singer on the soundtrack of the Vagabond. He made little or no starring roles in Hollywood.
The highlight for me is the Adam & Eve mini-ballet w/ sexy Dolores Starr. Wish there was more of her in this.
And the most anachronistic part of the film
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Rita Moreno is fantastic. .
Rita Moreno's singing voice was dubbed by Broadway actress Laurie Carroll. Oreste Kirkop was a Covent Garden tenor, so his actual singing voice was used, but his SPEAKING voice had to be dubbed by film actor Elliot Reid.
Aha! So that's the reason he had an accent while singing but not while speaking.
Dale E: Exactly... and a reason why he did not become "the next Mario Lanza".
Robert Waldren
IMO there were several other factors much more important than that. His voice didn't even approach the beauty and strength of Mario Lanza. I'm in complete agreement that Mario was "The greatest voice of the 20th century."
+Robert Waldren Sorry but he did not need to be the next Mario Lanza as he was a great singer who sang in the greatest opera houses in the world which Mario Lanza never did he was only a movie star a good singerbut only in Movies
+josephine vogel oh aren't we precious....
The Vagabond King is a 1956 musical film adaptation of the 1925 operetta The Vagabond King by Rudolf Friml. It starred Kathryn Grayson and Oreste Kirkop, with early roles for Rita Moreno and Leslie Nielsen. Sir Cedric Hardwicke played a notable supporting role. It was Kathryn Grayson's and Walter Hampden's last movie. Hampden, who played King Louis XI, died more than a year before its release. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.
In fifteenth century France, the irreverent beggar François Villon (tenor Oreste Kirkop) is crowned "king for a day" by King Louis XI (Walter Hampden). He patriotically rallies his fellow beggars to fight when Paris is invaded by the Burgundians. Kathryn Grayson stars as the high-born heroine, and Rita Moreno as the lusty low-born wench, whose love for Villon eventually costs her her life.
Do you know why this was Kathryn Grayson's last film? Awaiting your kind reply, as I have always thought she was one of Hollywood's best of that era.
ThreeAMWoman K.G. Appeared on silver screen now and then since 1956 (she even appeared as a guest star in three episodes "Murder, She Wrote" with Angela Lansbury), but it interfered with her musical career constantly. Grayson trained from the age of twelve as an opera singer. Besides being an opera singer and an actress she also supervised the Voice and Choral Studies Program at Idaho State University.
One more amusing fact for you: While shooting the Madame Butterfly scene in the film with Mario Lanza, Lanza kept attempting to french kiss Grayson, which Grayson claimed was made even worse by the fact that Lanza would constantly eat garlic before shooting. Grayson went to costume designer Helen Rose and she sewed pieces of brass into Grayson's gloves. Any time Lanza attempted to french kiss her after that, she hit him with the brass-filled glove. :-))
Thank you so very much, Natalia, for your interesting reply. I will have to look for the episodes of "Murder She Wrote" she appeared in. I have always loved K.G. since my childhood in the 1950's. Being voice chorus trained for many years...until my 20's, I appreciate her lovely & great voice...also her beauty :)
You are very welcome! It was a pleasure "talking" to you!
Being an artist I appreciate beauty in all its forms, and being a romantic I appreciate music also. But one of the great disappointments of my life is the complete lack of ANY singing ability - I could not hold a note to save my life.
Oh, but you have the gift of The Arts & the gift of Appreciation, Natalia! I am also a romantic & appreciate beauty in all forms. Have artistic abilities in most ways, except drawing or painting. I regret that & sometimes feel like I could do it, but at 67 years of age, I am happy with what I have been given. It has been a pleasure speaking with you. You are an interesting person.
Mediaeval France was somewhat cleaner than I expected. But with sillier hats. Bet it was smelly though. Perhaps pumping it through the air-conditioning into the cinema was not a good marketing ploy in hindsight. Bet the taverns were rubbish too. Anyway the last time I stood on a table & started singing down the Warwick Castle I was barred. Philistines! Philistines, I tell you.
You're a hoot. This film deserves more funny comments. I cracked up.
I'm always impressed by the fact that, in a culture where animals were everywhere and horses were the mode of transportation, you never see animal feces anywhere.
I had forgotten that his speaking voice was dubbed(for a change)....sort of disconcerting. I got a tape of this to Kathryn in the early 90's, as there was not a home video release. I think it held a special place for her. RIP lovely lady.
Sorry to bring you the bad news, Allan. Katherine Grayson and Oreste Kirkup loathed each other. And she refused to speak about the film.
Boa filme do mundo
i jumped all songs! but story is good!
Is that Vincent Price's voice it sure sounds like him narrating this movie I've seen many old movies with my grandmother as a young girl but I don't think I've seen this one and my granddaughter just happens to be with me tonight that she'll be a great joy I just hope she can sit through this movie at the age of eight wish me luck.🤞😊😊🤞
A Fun Movie.
I never thought I could dislike a Kathryn Grayson film, but this one proved me wrong. I couldn't finish it and she was my favorite singer from that era on screen by far.
She hated it as much as you did, so don't feel bad.
Hermosa,una rama de Robin Hood.
A little different. Singing, Dancing, Romance
A charming film, if you enjoy this may I recommend you find the earlier various, 1936 if I remember correctly? They are at once very similar and very different.
1st are you certain that is not Mario Lanza's voice sure sound's like him? 2nd great cast, great music, colorful costumes and Rita Moreno a talent that never received the recognition she deserved!
On the contrary Rita Moreno was a member of the exclusive E.G.O.T. Club (Emmy / Grammy / Oscar / Tony). Rita Moreno did receive her fair share of recognition and then some.
She got all the attention she deserved. She was sensational in one great, classic film - and she had a good solid career.
Movies back then were so corny; yet so entertaining, not to mention with acting - I think, - superior to today's. Come to think, they felt "real" everyday life as do most of us, unlike most of today's, who transit directly from Home to acting school, after which they're sought for their opinions on virtually everything they've never personally experienced. Oh, they vote, too!
Quality stuff
What a voice that oreste thanks for the upload
No wonder Kathryn Grayson said this was her worst movie.... the acting is horrible, the sets are something from a high school production... however, where I disagree with her is in the singing, it's GLORIOUS! All of the songs are just fantastic and she's in as fine a voice as ever!
Nice.
This movie is in the public domain.
POR FAVOR !!!
ESSA CÓPIA DO FILME ESTÁ MARAVILHOSA !!!
COLOQUE LEGENDAS !!!!
OBRIGADO !!!!
What great movie. Classic. Yes, it has things in it that we, with our vast benefit of education and technological/movie familiarity now can pick apart, but the savviest among us know how to view this movie - with regard to the time it was made and the costumes, effects, and methods used at the time. To judge it by deliberately viewing through a different lens is to be, well, a dick. Whatever you think, I'm guessing that everyone involved in this movie had a h*lluva a great time while they were making it.
well said!
Yes, well said, Nathan. Thank you for your statement.
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***** Absolutely.
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The main actor and singer ORESTE had a most promising career ahead of him. To safeguard Mario Lanza the mafia told Oreste to cease his Hollywood career or die. He did disappear thanks to M. Lanza.
Could you provide a link on that? Oreste Kirkop was pretty busy with the opera before, during and after the year he made The Vagabond King. I don't see why he would quit the stage, where he was already a star, to start a different career in Hollywood; he didn't even live in the US. Four years after the movie, when he was 37, his doctors told him to quit the opera if he didn't want to die onstage with a heart attack, and he retired.
Oreste was my father's cousin. He had a heart condition and was advised to stop performing.
C’est très bien
Lay a couple of strips of organic bacon on some salmon, then broil , and then, look at some classic movies! Let the good times roll!d
Pray define "organic bacon" for li'l ol'me, please? Is it a pig who roamed the woods and only ate truffles, whose meat underwent salting with only sea salt, and was only smoked with wood taken from a virgin forest?
The pig is the result of modifying genes going back past Gregor Mendel. There are no non-bred pigs extant.
The salt, whatever its pedigree, is some combination of mineral salts that are all chemically similar, with no distinguishable difference (although I like the Sea Salt, which has the proportions of minerals that man was made from.
As to the Hickory, there you have a point. Soaking something in a solution of smoke residue, which many unscrupulous meat packers do, is like licking an ashtray.But, I am unaware of any tree which yet lives that has been genetically modified so as to make a difference in the smoking.
I am truly curious, as I am not certain which point is the one I should look into further.
Other than that, your suggestion is lovely.
By the way, where did that Salmon come from?
This is in no way a criticism of your idea. I do my own sausage, bacon, and all kinds of charcuterie and plain old pickling and smoking. I am just vague on what constitutes an "organic" label for something as highly processed as bacon (not that I don't LOVE bacon, and all its delicious cousins like prosciutto, pancetta and Jamon)?
Now, if what you meant was "homemade", I am with you, but outside of raising the pig and slaughtering it yourself, obtaining sea salt from Indian beaches, and harvesting your own wood to smoke from forests which have never known the footprint of man, I need some instruction as to what is meant by "organic" when one is referring to bacon.
If you are from Maine or the Northwest, I will defer to your spectacular Salmon, which must be et directly from the Sea or River to be a real treat. You could use a smoked tire tread and it would still be Magnifico!
Bye the bye, do you know that bacon originated when household pigs became fat from their human's prosperity? A lean pig's bacon will rot very fast. It takes lots of fat, salt, and smoke to give us one of God's greatest gifts to Man, which will last through a hard winter, almost any conditions, and is so very portable in its hardset form. The greatest discoveries and voyages have only been made possible by our little pig friends and their fat bellies, along with the calories and flavor they contain.
By the way, get you a Brinkmann's smoker, and you won't need the bacon. I make the Realsmoker, which is a bit more Hillbilly, redneck, Bar-B-Que, and although it would, and often has, done fish fine, you would have to be cooking it for a thousand people to use it efficiently. An entire pig, split, is more our style. Or twenty chickens.
Bon Appetite!
George Soros Obviously, George, you had nothing better to do than to spoil a good joke with a lot of unconnected data trivia. That was unnecessary and pedantic.
George Soros no non-bred pigs extant.
still wild boars (which also give us delicious bacon) in the jungles of Vietnam and Indonesia
Bingo!
All pigs, including "wild" boars now living have some domesticated roots. Multitudes have returned to the forests in certain places, but there is no such a thing as a pig which has not been bred for purpose.
good costumes
sorry but why that wrong logo? it is not VISTAVION format...
VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen...
Your uploading is old TV 4:3 format... it is not vistavision!
Yes VistaVision a was very clear high Def process. It's just a terrible print. But it would never have helped trust me.
The voice is not Mario Lanza. That's was MGM's The Student Prince, which used his voice after he walked off the set, since he didn't like the director. He was replace by actor Edmund Purdom who used Lanza soundtrack. Similiar movie, but not a Lanza movie.
The director criticaster Married singing he ordered to recording (my beloved) and Mario rebelt,l would too.
Mario Lanza didn't walk off the set of The Student Prince. He was carried off. Or carted off. He was so overweight that he couldn't fit into his costumes and the cameras were ready to roll.
An interesting curiosity is The Vagabond King (1956).
This film was at one stage meant to star Mario Lanza and reunite him with his co-star of his first two MGM films, Kathryn Grayson.
Oreste Kirkop (Villon), the operatic tenor sings a little like Lanza but didn't have much charisma and was rather charmless off-screen according to Kathryn Grayson. He retired from his operatic career in 1960 because of a serious heart ailment.
A great shame that so many of the beautiful original songs were jettisoned for second rate new songs written for the film.
This was indeed Kathryn's last film and the last of the great American operettas to be filmed having reached their peak with the MacDonald-Eddy films of the late 1930's; early 40's.
I think this just might be the stagiest movie I've ever seen. You can see even shadows from the equipment & crew.
Nobody wanted to make it Steve. And nobody, apart from Oreste Kirkup, who thought he was going to be huge movie star wanted to be in it either. End of contracts rubbish for all concerned.
@@jochenstossberg5427 Somehow, "Oreste Kirkup" just doesn't seem right on a theater marquee.
Good Film....but not the ending I thought was going to happen. Since she had to forfeit her lands and riches, the King should have bestowed the lands and titles of Burgundy to them as reward, thus turning him from vagabond to Noble, like they sang about thru the whole movie!🦂
I just can't deal with that singing
good movie years ago but to sappy for today
They don't do musicals anymore, except for a few like La La Land, and when they do, they're sappier than this.
@@vrinda5303 if that crap is a musical
1:13:56 If I ran a tavern, I’d keep a barrel of weapons around just in case of a riot. That’s good planning.
I think I like Ronald Coleman better as Francois Villon in If I Were King. But Frances Dee is just as easy on the eyes as Kathryn Grayson. And they don't make Technicolor like this anymore.
But Basil Rathbone as King Louie is a total trip in the other movie.
The LP this operetta I have, but sung by Mario Lanza. Unfortunately I do not have a record player
but there will come where this pseudo intellectual criticizing Mario Lanza, gross and grim cockroach can go somewhere to nail your blog so imbecile poison
You can buy one cheap that goes right into your computer. I have one so I could record old LPs like that onto cd's or save aas files.
Google "USB turntable and you'll find many, pretty cheap.
It turned out to be a good investment since hurricane Sandy wiped out my actual LPs, but not the ones I had already saved.
George Soros
You're right...it was Hawaii Five-O......a senior moment on my part
I downloaded this using TH-cam Downloader and after downloading it, it is missing the sound ! What happen to the sound after downloading this ?
The voice was that of Oreste Kirkop not of Mario Lanza as Norma Hobson is saying.
Clearly, this is NOT Lanza. He was an unforgettable singer with no accent as this fine gentleman had, and would have appeared in the film. Great voice for German operetta style here.however.
A remake of IF I WERE KING. That film was better. It's also on TH-cam