Jack Benny, Carol Channing & Pearl Baily in a HELLO DOLLY Happening!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Jack Benny presents Carol Channing with a special award. "Hello Dolly" company sings Put on Your Sunday Clothes. Pearl Bailey sings So Long Dearie & receives an award. 1968
Class acts: Jack Benny, Carol Channing, and Pearl Bailey. We need more people like them in the Arts and in the world.
I think we have entirely too many dead people as it is.
… And we shall never see their like again.
PEARL BAILEY WAS MAGNIFICENT
True stars that worked their way from Vaudeville through radio, stage, and large and small screen. These greats will long be remembered after today's flash-in-the-pan's are long forgotten.
I remember seeing Miss Pearl as "Dolly" at the Shriner's Auditorium (same one that is shown as the Oscar Awards venue in 1955's "Star Is Born"). The show was billed as the "All-Black Cast" - not unusual in those days of the late 60s. Pearl gave her own spin on "Dolly" - which truly is a role that allows actresses to put their own spin on the character. In the opening number, "I Put My Hand In Here", there's a moment when the costume horse makes an appearance (standard in all productions of "Dolly"). "Dolly" is handing out cards promoting her various skills which include matchmaking. When Pearl came up against the costume horse, she blurted out "Oh no - sorry! Not this child, honey!" and then she swerved away. The audience LOVED IT! Missing Pearl and Carol!
Did you happen to see it when Morgan Freeman was in the cast? I heard he was in the initial production with Pearl Bailey but had to move on for another contract.
Pearl Bailey. Was magnificent. As. Dolly Gallagher Levi. I saw her many years ago in Boston.. At the Schubert Theatre
In my early career as a journalist, I was invited to a luncheon along with other Los Angeles journalists with Ms. Bailey who was opening at the Shubert in Hello Dolly. I stayed behind as one journalist after another left. She came over and asked me to sit with her. We talked for hours. I told her how my grandparents and parents traveled to Las Vegas to see her perform. She said, "Yes, I am getting all the grandkids now." I loved being with Ms. Bailey and didn't want the evening to end. The next day she sent me every book she wrote. All were signed with a little note. I was touched and became her biggest fan, seeing her at as many performances as I could over the years. I will never forget her.
I've always thought God looks like Pearl Bailey. At least, I hope so.
What a lovely thought. I hope you're correct.
Oh, what a treat to see the two Carols singing together… about food! I think Carol Channing was a vegetarian which explains her lifelong slimness, boundless energy and longevity till 97 years of age! May she sing & dance in peace forevermore. On 1/15/19, heaven welcomed her with “Hello, Carol, well hello, Carol. It’s so nice to have you back where you belong…”. And another treat to see Ms. Channing singing with Ms. Pearl Bailey - the 2 Broadway Dolly’s! Also, congrats to Carol Burnett for receiving 1st Carol Burnett Award for lifetime achievement at 2019 Golden Globes.
Makes me cry with joy every time 😭😭😭
Spectacular. Thank you for posting.
Why can’t this happen in 2019 ? We sure need to bring this country back from it’s division .
Racism was waaaaaaay worse back then
No class left today. Crap music only. This fine entertainment is "Gone With The Wind"!😮💨
Wonderful
The Otto Preminger film, to which Channing alludes in her acceptance speech, is the 1968 feature, "Skidoo", also starring Jackie Gleason.
If you wish to spend an hour and a half watching one of the oddest cinematic productions of all time, by all means watch, "Skidoo".
I'm really hoping to see "Skidoo: The Musical" on Broadway one day, starring Nathan Lane, Kristen Chenoweth and Joel Grey as "God." ;-)
I wonder if Morgan Freeman was one of the dancers that you see here in "Put On Your Sunday Clothes." He was in the chorus of the African-American "Hello, Dolly" with Pearl Bailey.
When Broadway musicals sounded like you were in the same room with them.
I never realized since now at 7:54 she does a Cab Calloway impersonation!
I will always regret not keeping original vinyl album in my haste to transfer to CD which now in 20's are becoming obsolete. Oh! Woe is me
Jack Benny managed to be on stage just long enough to be urbanely witty and had the good grace to shut up, get off and let the stars shine, knowing how good they were .
Who played Cornelius? He had a good voice.
What year was that registered? I'd like to see It?
855-9 entire audience - appears 100% white!?! 1968 NYC. says a lot
@EatPlums And when was that?
The 1820s?
@EatPlums Really?
So in the 1910s & 1920s when 40% of NYC's population was foreign born, NYC wasn't great?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_New_York_City
After WWI, when thanks to the great migration, we got the Harlem Renaissance, NYC wasn't great?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance
Learn some history.
Hopefully Queen LaTifa will replace Bette Midler
Kenneth Desmond Mosley She would have turned it into Bette-who? 💕
Not one African American in the audience.
Donald Cant That my friend, was the way it “was”.
Not one white person at the Apollo Theater back then either.
"You can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink"
Raucous and dated.
Dumb, arrogant hick! Must be a Millenial!