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"Junior Miss" rediscovered

Great news from the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) in New York.

 

After years on the trail, Manager of Research Services Jane Klain has tracked down a copy of the lost TV musical Junior Miss with a score by Dorothy Fields and Burton Lane. She is making it available for view at the Paley Center, and holding a special screening on September 21 2008. Details of the screening.

 

See my page about Junior Miss.


Treasures on Youtube

So much fascinating material from old movies and TV shows is now on Youtube.

Among the interesting Dorothy Fields related items are the following (as at August 2008):

From Love in the Rough (1930), the number I'm Doing That Thing sung and danced by charming Dorothy Jordan.

The musical number We'll Dance Until the Dawn from the 1931 movie Flying High. There's an introduction by Pat O' Brien and Kathryn Crawford, and then a full-scale Busby Berkeley number erupts.

From the 1933 film The Prizefighter and the Lady, boxer Max Baer sings and dances his way through Lucky Fella with a troupe of diminutive chorines. It's fun.

Laurence Tibbett sings Cuban Love Song from the 1931 film of the same name. What a voice. It's followed by other snippets from the film.

All three songs written by Dorothy Fields and Oscar Levant for In Person and performed by Ginger Rogers: Out of Sight, Out of Mind; Don't Mention Love To Me; Got A New Lease On Life.

The songs from the film version of Up in Central Park, performed by Deanna Durbin and Dick Haymes: Carousel in the Park; When She Walks in the Room; Oh Say can you See (as Deanna arrives at Ellis Island from Ireland).

Marge Beddow, Gwen Verdon's understudy in Redhead, performs Erbie Fitch's Twitch at a recent meeting of Dancers Over 40.

Michele Lee sings Nobody Does It Like Me from Seesaw on the Dinah Shore show (starts 5 minutes in).


 


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