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"The Best Damn Musical!"/The First Fifty Years of the Fabulous "Gypsy." In Seven Parts. Part 7.
the passionate moviegoer —
MENDES VERSUS LAURENTS As much as I like "Gypsy" the show, I prefer "Gypsy" the movie - the 1962 Mervyn LeRoy theatrical version, not the arch 1993 Emile Ardolino TV version. Frankly, without exaggeration, I can say that every stage production of the show has somehow let me down. Part of this has to do with the built-in lop-sidedness of the material: The first half, song-heavy, is all musical; the second half is essentially a straight drama with a few songs, most of them performed on stage. Believe me, the film version's elimination of the intermission helps a great deal, somehow making the transition ...
KARL MALDEN (1912-2009)
The Moviezzz Blog —
Karl Maden has passed away. While many may remember him from his American Express Commercials, or THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, he had a fine film career. He worked with Hitchcock in I CONFESS in 1953, Elia Kazan on four films, BOOMERANG, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (for which he won an Oscar), ON THE WATERFRONT and BABY DOLL. He starred in Disney's POLLYANNA, with Natalie Wood in BOMBERS B-52 and GYPSY (both featured in ...
Remembering Karl Malden. Today in Film Bloggery 07/01/09
SpoutBlog —
The celebrity deaths keep on happening, which makes me hope that Death takes a holiday at least over the 4th of July weekend. Yesterday we lost actor and baritone singer Harve Presnell, who is best remembered nowadays for playing William H. Macy’s father-in-law in Fargo, and now today we say goodbye to Karl Malden, who won a supporting actor Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire, which was one of his four collaborations with director Elia Kazan. He was also Oscar-nominated for his performance in Kazan’s On the Waterfront.
Other memorable film appearances include roles in ...
