I first saw this film when I was 14 in my music class, and I have loved it ever since. I was skeptical at first, because at the time I was not the biggest movie musical fan, but when I watched this movie, my opinion definitely changed. This movie definitely is the reason for my love of old movie musicals. Now I can't get enough of them!
Thats nice my high school did how to succeed in business without really trying my first year in berea high school 1981 November tapped dance and sang with my fellow drama students as well as young women.had the time of my life doing it.did the musical on two evenings.
I saw "The Music Man" on the big screen when I was 12, and reacted to it in very much the same way you did, Kitty. Totally enthralled and quasi-obsessed. The fact that my mother had long idolized Shirley Jones (making sure my sister and I were very familiar with her performance as Laurie in "Oklahoma!") -- and that she fell madly in love with Robert Preston as Prof. Harold Hill -- guaranteed that we saw the movie more than once and bought the soundtrack instantly. After years of wanting to grow my hair long but not having the willpower to do it, the beautiful long corkscrew curls on Jones and the girls of River City inspired me to finally do it, and I proudly cherished my long hair ever after. I particularly love the outdoor evening scenes in this movie. I swear they make you feel that you are breathing the fragrant evening air, and feeling the delicious evening breeze against your cheek, after a blazing hot Iowa summer's day. Thanks for the memories, Kitty.
I'd like to put in a good word for Barbara Cook, who played the original Marian on Broadway. You can hear her sing, of course, on the original Broadway cast album. She won a Tony for The Music Man.
I also saw this movie when I was 12 with my Grandma. I remember taking the subway, ( in Toronto,) downtown, an experience in itself, and getting off at King St. It was a matinee, so there were only a few others there besides us. It was on old style theater, huge screen. The lights went down and the movie started. I guess because it was a long movie there were no cartoons or newsreels before it. I was entranced! Everything was fantastic! I particularly remember how stunning the colors were. The THINK system!
I grew up at the other end of the state, but "Gary Indiana" will always be a favorite movie musical song of mine. Peter from "The Family Guy" also did "Shipoopi" in one of their episodes which probably made a lot of young fans scratch their heads until they Googled it.
I had sung 76 trombones in school but had never seen the The Music Man. One day I told my friends that what I was going to study in grad school. Suddenly Sharon and Cathy began singing Marion the Librarian. Shortly afterwards I watched the film.
Funny little trivia coincidence: at 3:06 as Kitty says the words "...are PEPPERED throughout the entire film", at 3:10 appears Barbara PEPPER (uncredited.....I looked it up), Doris Ziffle on the t.v. hit, "Green Acres". And this exquisite attention to tiny detail, folks, is what covid lockdown can do to you!!! Silliness aside, I love, love, love Kitty Hollywood and her glorious reviews!!!!!
i just finished binge watching all of your videos and i enjoyed them very much. you are very engaging! i share your enthusiasm for this movie...imho the best musical ever made. it is perfection. i am also a huge dorothy jeakins fan...i think this film might be the pinnacle of her career. hope you will be filming more reviews soon!
Reason I turned to entertainment. Never looked back. Best decision I've ever made. Met Onna White. Ended up dog sitting for her.. One of the hi lites of my life. Onna was OTT Awesome.
Great review, Kitty! Haven't seen Music Man in ages. I didn't know Larri Thomas was in this, although I spotted her giving it her all in the long tracking shot you used from 'Wells Fargo'. Like certain women in Bubsy Berkeley numbers, or the male dancers of Jack Cole and Michael Kidd, she's one of those familiar faces that I always scan for in movies of particular eras. Also, just read your blog. What's your thing with Vera-Ellen?? I like her! :)
Isn't it great to see Larri Thomas giving it her all? I have grown to really love watching her do her best to walk away with a film. The Vera-Ellen thing is strange - as a child I would often get Mitzi Gaynor and Vera-Ellen confused in my mind. I would be sitting there expecting to see Mitzi Gaynor and would get Vera-Ellen instead and so I now have this awkward disappointment vibe associated with her. Glad you liked the review - it's such a deeply wonderful musical to me.
@@KittyHollywoodReview You must type in and watch IVA WITHERS, UNDERSTUDY AND DANCER. In it Withers takes credit for being the dancer in the GUYS AND DOLLS film who is in fact nobody but Larri Thomas !
I take issue with your statement that it is Julie Andrews' stand-in on top of the mountain in The Sound of Music. For one thing, director Robert Wise states in the DVD commentary that the only time Julie's stand-in is seen in the film is when Maria and the children are climbing trees. Secondly, Julie has often talked about how difficult it was to time her stride to match the helicopter and that the downdraft from the copter knocked her down in the grass take after take. What is your basis for this assertion?
Hi, I based it on information I found in this link... www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/326/Larri+Thomas/index.html It could be that she is talking about the mountain at the end of the movie, and if so, I am more than willing to bow to your judgement on this matter - at all times my primary objective is simply to try to put a film I love out there for other people to get to know.
+Kitty Hollywood Julie Andrews was the only one on the mountain in The Sound of Music. I don't know how many interviews prove it. The other source is dead wrong.
+mntwister After reading that again, it may have been that she was there in case she was needed, or it could have been she was at the filming of the Do Re Mi mountaintop scene, again if she was needed.
+mntwister Hi - thanks for responding. I've gone through the article again, and you make a good point that in all likelihood they were both up there - Larri Thomas if she was needed. It's about time I did a review on 'The Sound of Music '- it being one of the best films ever - so will mention it properly in that review.
I first saw this film when I was 14 in my music class, and I have loved it ever since. I was skeptical at first, because at the time I was not the biggest movie musical fan, but when I watched this movie, my opinion definitely changed. This movie definitely is the reason for my love of old movie musicals. Now I can't get enough of them!
Always will be one of my favorites. It was our school musical when I was a senior in high school and it was an honor to be in it.
Thats nice my high school did how to succeed in business without really trying my first year in berea high school 1981 November tapped dance and sang with my fellow drama students as well as young women.had the time of my life doing it.did the musical on two evenings.
I saw "The Music Man" on the big screen when I was 12, and reacted to it in very much the same way you did, Kitty. Totally enthralled and quasi-obsessed. The fact that my mother had long idolized Shirley Jones (making sure my sister and I were very familiar with her performance as Laurie in "Oklahoma!") -- and that she fell madly in love with Robert Preston as Prof. Harold Hill -- guaranteed that we saw the movie more than once and bought the soundtrack instantly. After years of wanting to grow my hair long but not having the willpower to do it, the beautiful long corkscrew curls on Jones and the girls of River City inspired me to finally do it, and I proudly cherished my long hair ever after. I particularly love the outdoor evening scenes in this movie. I swear they make you feel that you are breathing the fragrant evening air, and feeling the delicious evening breeze against your cheek, after a blazing hot Iowa summer's day. Thanks for the memories, Kitty.
I agree, the outdoor scenes do make you feel as if you are there, experiencing it with them.
I'd like to put in a good word for Barbara Cook, who played the original Marian on Broadway. You can hear her sing, of course, on the original Broadway cast album. She won a Tony for The Music Man.
I also saw this movie when I was 12 with my Grandma. I remember taking the subway, ( in Toronto,) downtown, an experience in itself, and getting off at King St. It was a matinee, so there were only a few others there besides us. It was on old style theater, huge screen. The lights went down and the movie started. I guess because it was a long movie there were no cartoons or newsreels before it. I was entranced! Everything was fantastic! I particularly remember how stunning the colors were. The THINK system!
I grew up at the other end of the state, but "Gary Indiana" will always be a favorite movie musical song of mine. Peter from "The Family Guy" also did "Shipoopi" in one of their episodes which probably made a lot of young fans scratch their heads until they Googled it.
Just about the best stage to screen transfer ever made. So well done the over sixty years later it is still fresh.
🎶 "each bassoon, having it's big fat say!" 🎶
I had sung 76 trombones in school but had never seen the The Music Man. One day I told my friends that what I was going to study in grad school. Suddenly Sharon and Cathy began singing Marion the Librarian. Shortly afterwards I watched the film.
Funny little trivia coincidence: at 3:06 as Kitty says the words "...are PEPPERED throughout the entire film", at 3:10 appears Barbara PEPPER (uncredited.....I looked it up), Doris Ziffle on the t.v. hit, "Green Acres". And this exquisite attention to tiny detail, folks, is what covid lockdown can do to you!!! Silliness aside, I love, love, love Kitty Hollywood and her glorious reviews!!!!!
i just finished binge watching all of your videos and i enjoyed them very much. you are very engaging!
i share your enthusiasm for this movie...imho the best musical ever made. it is perfection.
i am also a huge dorothy jeakins fan...i think this film might be the pinnacle of her career.
hope you will be filming more reviews soon!
Reason I turned to entertainment. Never looked back. Best decision I've ever made. Met Onna White. Ended up dog sitting for her.. One of the hi lites of my life. Onna was OTT Awesome.
I was hoping she would sing some of the songs.
Love your jacket. Very fitting for the movie.
Great review, Kitty! Haven't seen Music Man in ages. I didn't know Larri Thomas was in this, although I spotted her giving it her all in the long tracking shot you used from 'Wells Fargo'. Like certain women in Bubsy Berkeley numbers, or the male dancers of Jack Cole and Michael Kidd, she's one of those familiar faces that I always scan for in movies of particular eras. Also, just read your blog. What's your thing with Vera-Ellen?? I like her! :)
Isn't it great to see Larri Thomas giving it her all? I have grown to really love watching her do her best to walk away with a film. The Vera-Ellen thing is strange - as a child I would often get Mitzi Gaynor and Vera-Ellen confused in my mind. I would be sitting there expecting to see Mitzi Gaynor and would get Vera-Ellen instead and so I now have this awkward disappointment vibe associated with her. Glad you liked the review - it's such a deeply wonderful musical to me.
@@KittyHollywoodReview You must type in and watch IVA WITHERS, UNDERSTUDY AND DANCER. In it Withers takes credit for being the dancer in the GUYS AND DOLLS film who is in fact nobody but Larri Thomas !
I take issue with your statement that it is Julie Andrews' stand-in on top of the mountain in The Sound of Music. For one thing, director Robert Wise states in the DVD commentary that the only time Julie's stand-in is seen in the film is when Maria and the children are climbing trees. Secondly, Julie has often talked about how difficult it was to time her stride to match the helicopter and that the downdraft from the copter knocked her down in the grass take after take. What is your basis for this assertion?
Hi,
I based it on information I found in this link...
www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/326/Larri+Thomas/index.html
It could be that she is talking about the mountain at the end of the movie, and if so, I am more than willing to bow to your judgement on this matter - at all times my primary objective is simply to try to put a film I love out there for other people to get to know.
+Kitty Hollywood Julie Andrews was the only one on the mountain in The Sound of Music. I don't know how many interviews prove it. The other source is dead wrong.
+mntwister After reading that again, it may have been that she was there in case she was needed, or it could have been she was at the filming of the Do Re Mi mountaintop scene, again if she was needed.
+mntwister Hi - thanks for responding. I've gone through the article again, and you make a good point that in all likelihood they were both up there - Larri Thomas if she was needed. It's about time I did a review on 'The Sound of Music '- it being one of the best films ever - so will mention it properly in that review.
+Kitty Hollywood Hi Kitty, yes, I couldn't agree more, the best movie ever in my opinion. love your posts
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