Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman
in the film version of Anything Goes, 1936.
Ethel was reprising her stage role,
done 2 years earlier.
Were those Bing's REAL mutton chops?
Ethel must have tried tugging them!
The 1962 Off-Broadway revival
of Anything...
with Kenneth Mars, Hal Linden, and Eileen Rodgers (below).
This revival drew songs from MANY different
Porter musicals.
I'm sort of surprised it wasn't moved to Broadway;
the recording is great!
Eileen, Hal, and MIckey Deems at the cast recording.
Other Renos of note:
Above, Patti LuPone in the 1987 revival,
and below, Sutton Foster, in 2011.
Note the "hands on hips" poses...
for almost all the Renos!
Gwen Verdon (in her Broadway debut)
stole Can-Can, 1953, out from under Lilo
(the supposed star!)...
Mixed reviews (okay, some really SCATHING ones as well)
but it ran for 2 years,
and was made into a (not very successful) film
in 1960,
which used only a few of Cole's songs.
Ethel Merman and Paula Laurence
in Something For The Boys...
Betty Garrett was Ethel's understudy,
and we'll hear Betty and Paula's take on
the Un-PC "By The Mississinewa".
Broadway's Silk Stockings
with Don Ameche and Hildegard Knef.
And below, from the movie version:
Jules Munshin, Joseph Buloff, and Peter Lorre
"dancing" in Siberia!
Janis Paige and Fred Astaire,
again from Silk Stockings, the film.
On Sunday we'll hear Janis and
"Satin And Silk".
Mexican Hayride, 1944,
with June Havoc as a famous bullfighter!
That's June, below...
Gypsy Rose Lee's sister.
A movie of Hayride came out in 1948,
starring Abbott and Costello?
1948's Kiss Me Kate
with Patricia Morrison and Alfred Drake (sans goatee?).
It received the first Best Musical Tony Award to be given out.
Over 3 dozen Broadway shows and movie musicals
to his name.
Magic is right!
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