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The common consensus seems to be that it bombed because musicals were "on the way out," but it was such a good film (IMO). And people loved Julie Andrews after 'Sound of Music'...so why didn't it do better at the box office?
Side note: Robert Reed gays it up to high heaven in this film. His career could've been totally different if it had done well. No wonder he was bitter being relegated to 'The Brady Bunch'.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 26, 2021 11:35 PM |
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| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 26, 2021 10:21 PM |
It’s a terrible movie. Daniel Massey comes off best.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 26, 2021 10:26 PM |
It is not a good movie at at and Andrews is badly miscast as her entire performing style is completely different from Gertrude Lawrence's. The film failed largely because hardly anyone cared who Lawrence was by 1968, and audiences didn't really want to see Andrews play a cold bitch.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 26, 2021 10:31 PM |
No one in 1968 knows who this woman was; Gertrude is a risible joke of a name.
It has no plot; it ends in a fizzle.
It has no camp sensibility; all the songs were styled by some crass Las Vegas hack.
We may have loved Julie in SOM she seems quite awkward for almost all of this over-long biography.
Th plot fizzled away; why did this intercontinental star settle down with a small-time country hick who looked as sexy as Lyndon B Johnson.
I assume this last boring husband vetoed all the interesting plotpoints.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 26, 2021 10:34 PM |
This movie was made by Fox. How come they refused to mention how Gertrude Lawrence INITIATED 'King and I'?
She asked R and H to write a musical for an elderly English non-singer.
Fox had the rights to the musical so they should have made that the movie's climax.
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