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|    Daryl Stout to JOE MACKEY    |
|    I remember it well (was:    |
|    24 Feb 21 09:20:00    |
      TZUTC: -0600       MSGID: 939.fidonet-memories@1:19/33 249ba9c5       REPLY: 1:123/140 afd1a13a       PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Win32 Nov 15 2020 MSC 1927       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 r3.179 Nov 15 2020 MSC 1927       CHRS: ASCII 1       Joe,               JM> More along the lines of Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold in Gigi.        JM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxM5rJ-uiY&ab_channel=tizianafato        JM> And again with the great Sophie Tucker.        JM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB5o_J7tOHQ&ab_channel=morefun2me2               The one I remember Hermione Gingold in was Mayor Shinn's Wife in        "The Music Man" (the movie), with:              Robert Preston (Professor Harold Hill, who didn't know one note of        music from another, but he knew the Minuet in G).              Shirley Jones (Marian The Librarian)              Buddy Hackett (Marcellus Washburn)              The Buffalo Bills (barbershop quartet, the members of the school board)              Ronny Howard (the same one that was on Happy Days years later)               And, so many others. The opening scene "Rock Island" was what you'd       call "musical rap"...but that was made 60 years ago, and it's still a       classic.               I understand that during the filming, Herminone Gingold said of       her dressing room "this is just like a whorehouse". |
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