Two American cultural giants — Mary Martin (l) and Ethel Merman (r), of course — perform during the legendary production put on to commemorate Ford’s 50th anniversary in 1953. It is safe to say that we shall never see the like again.
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Brilliance
January 9, 2009
The great Carol Haney (see elsewhere on this site) does the remarkable “Steam Heat” number from the fair-to-middlin’ adaptation of Broadway’s “The Pajama Game” (1957, dirs George Abbot & Stanley Donen). While Gwen Verdon usually gets the attention, the coulda/woulda/shoulda story of Haney trumps all else in this poignant screen farewell. (She died soon thereafter, a victim of bum lungs.)
