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Pal Joey [Blu-ray]
by Frank Sinatra (Joey Evans),
Kim Novak (Linda English),
Rita Hayworth (Vera Simpson),
Barbara Nichols (Gladys),
Bobby Sherwood (Ned Glavin),
Hank Henry (Mike Miggins),
Elizabeth Patterson (Mrs. Casey),
Robin Morse (Bartender),
Frank Wilcox (Col. Langley),
Pierre Watkin (Mr. Forsythe),
Barry Bernard (Anderson),
Ellie Kent (Carol),
Mara McAfee (Sabrina),
Betty Utey (Patsy),
Bek Nelson (Lola),
Henry McCann (Shorty),
John Hubbard (Stanley),
James Seay (Livingston),
Hermes Pan (Choreographer),
Ernesto Molinari (Chef Tony),
Jean Corbett (Specialty Dance Double),
Robert Rietz (Boy Friend),
Jules Davies (Red-Faced Man),
Judy Dan (Hat Check Girl),
Gail Bonney (Heavy-Set Woman),
Cheryl Kubert (Girl Friend),
Tol Avery (Detective),
Al Nalbandian (Actor),
Robert Anderson (Policeman),
Genie Stone (Girl),
Raymond McWalters (Army Captain),
Bob Glenn (Sailor),
Sue Boomer (Secretary),
Helen Eliot (Traveler's Aid),
Hermie Rose (Bald Club Owner),
Jack Railey (Hot Dog Vendor),
Frank Wilimarth (Sidewalk Artist),
Roberto Piperio (Waiter),
Bobbie Lee (Stripper),
Connie Graham (Stripper),
Bobbie Jean Henson (Stripper),
Edith Powell (Stripper),
Jo Ann Smith (Stripper),
Franklin Farnum (Person,Bit),
Ilsa Ostroffsky (Stripper),
Rita Barrett (Stripper),
Howard Sigrist (Sidewalk Photographer),
Paul Cesari (Pet Store Owner),
Everett Glass (Pet Store Owner),
Maurice Argent (Tailor),
Michael Ferris (Tailor),
Eddie Bartell (Barker),
Albert Nalbandian (Barker),
Joseph Miksak (Barker),
Sydney Chatton (Barker),
Frank Sully (Barker),
Andrew Wong (Chinese Club Owner,Chinese Dancer),
George Chan (Chinese Pianist),
Allen Gin (Chinese Drummer),
Barbara Yung (Chinese Dancer),
Pat Lynn (Chinese Dancer),
Jean Nakaba (Chinese Dancer),
Elizabeth Fenton (Chinese Dancer),
Nellie Gee Ching (Chinese Dancer),
George DeNormand (Bit),
Oliver Cross (Bit),
Bess Flowers (Bit),
Giselle D'Arc (Vera's Maid),
Leon Alton (Printer Salesman),
Jane Chung (Flower Lady),
George Ford (Electrician),
Steve Benton (Electrician),
Ramon Martinez (Headwaiter),
George Nardelli (Headwaiter),
George Sidney (Director),
George Sidney (Director),
Dorothy Kingsley (Screenwriter),
Dorothy Kingsley (Screenwriter),
John O'Hara,
Fred Kohlmar (Producer),
Walter Holscher (Art Director),
William Kiernan (Set Decorator),
Louis Diage (Set Decorator,Set Design),
Viola Lawrence (Editor),
Harold Lipstein (Cinematographer),
Hermes Pan (Choreographer),
John Livadary (Sound Director),
Jerome Thoms (Editor),
John Alban (Actor),
Al Bain (Actor),
Lulu Mae Bohrman (Actor),
Nick Borgani (Actor),
Barrie Chase (Actor),
George Duning (Composer),
George Duning (Composer),
Nelson Riddle (Composer),
Nelson Riddle (Composer),
Franklin Hansen (Sound Effects),
John Livadary (Sound/Sound Designer)
Format: Blu-ray
ISBN: 43396575219
Publication Date: 07/20/2021
The John O'Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a heel of a hero who sleeps with a wealthy older woman in order to realize his dream of owning his own nightclub, and who breaks the heart of the girl who truly loves him when she impedes his plans to get ahead. Blossom Time it wasn't. Due to the seamy nature of the plot and the double- and single-entendre song lyrics (especially the original words for "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," which you aren't likely to hear on most mainstream recordings of this tune), Pal Joey could not be faithfully filmed back in the 1940s. Even this 1957 version, made at a time when movie censorship was beginning to relax, was extensively sanitized for public consumption. Ambitious singer/dancer Joey (Frank Sinatra) is still something of a louse, but a redeemable one. The relationship between Joey and his older benefactress Vera Simpson (Rita Hayworth, who was actually a few years younger than Sinatra) is one of implication rather than overt statement. And Joey's true love, chorine Linda English (Kim Novak), is as pure as the driven snow, who vehemently expresses distaste at having to perform a striptease. The Rodgers and Hart songs ("I Could Write a Book" the aforementioned "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered") which seemed so cynical and ironic back in 1940, are given the typically lush, luxurious Hollywood treatment (many of the tunes, notably "There's a Small Hotel," were borrowed from other Rodgers and Hart shows, a not uncommon practice of the time). Pal Joey is nice to look at and consummately performed, but don't expect the bite of the original play, or the John O'Hara short stories which preceded them.
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