11/17/2023 0 Comments Mr blue sky please tell us why lyricsHer first big break was on Broadway replacing Carol Haney in Pajama Game. As it is she does have films like Can Can, Artists and Models, and What A Way To Go where we see Shirley singing and dancing. Had she come along ten years earlier she would have been a great musical star. Shirley MacLaine has done so many dramatic roles and been Oscar nominated and once a winner for them, people do forget her beginnings were musical. Shirley MacLaine did do good in the role and it was a return to MacLaine's own musical roots. Yet there was Gwen Verdon, helping another performer do good in a part she created. ![]() Quite frankly had she told Universal and her then husband to take their film and follow explicit directions what to do with it, who could have blamed her. But instead of Gwen doing the lead, Shirley MacLaine steps into the part and Gwen assists in the choreography. ![]() Fosse came over to Hollywood to repeat his dual roles. Sweet Charity ran 608 performances on Broadway with a flock of Tony Award nominations including Gwen Verdon for the lead of Charity Hope Valentine and two Tony Awards for Bob Fosse for direction and choreography. This has to be one of the truly unselfish acts in a business that's built on ego. I notice that uncredited, but still making a vital contribution to this film was the original Broadway lead Gwen Verdon who assisted her then husband Bob Fosse with the choreography.
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