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Post by Isapop on Apr 14, 2024 18:27:31 GMT
Now here's a tasty tidbit offered by director John Schlesinger in the book Hollywood: The Oral History.
"Some script reader at MGM suggested Elvis Presley would be good for Midnight Cowboy...if it was turned into a musical. And someone at United Artists, for whom I did the picture seriously said 'Make Ratzo Sammy Davis Jr. and you have a hit!'"
You know something........I'd go see that!
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 14, 2024 21:23:27 GMT
At one point in life I would have seen it for laughs and to see just how horrified I could be.
The lady on the bus who asks Joe Buck if he has any gum for her children was Linda Davis, a friend of mine at college. She was a theater major and we acted in plays together, so I have a tiny bit of personal interest in the movie. BTW, she gave up her movie asperations shortly thereafter and was a school teacher for about 20 years in the Mesquite, Texas school district. There's some trivia most people don't know!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 14, 2024 22:46:14 GMT
Elvis and Sammy harmonizing on Everybody's Talkin.' We'd get that much out of it.
What about I'm Walkin' Here as a jaunty little street-song-and-dance for Sammy, with a tap routine on the roof of the cab (it worked for Ruby Keeler). And a satirically reverent musical tribute to John Wayne for Joe (a la Bye Bye Birdie's to Ed Sullivan).
Wheee! Look at me: I'm a boneheaded, late-'60s studio exec (and started the Sunday cocktail hour a tad too early).
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Post by politicidal1 on Apr 15, 2024 15:04:16 GMT
At one point in life I would have seen it for laughs and to see just how horrified I could be. The lady on the bus who asks Joe Buck if he has any gum for her children was Linda Davis, a friend of mine at college. She was a theater major and we acted in plays together, so I have a tiny bit of personal interest in the movie. BTW, she gave up her movie asperations shortly thereafter and was a school teacher for about 20 years in the Mesquite, Texas school district. There's some trivia most people don't know!Yeah, that's pretty cool. |
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