I wanted to share with you this great video on YouTube by Mark Milano on his Broadway Classics channel, posted recently on Facebook. It's a compilation of movie scenes where singing was live and not lip-synched to audio playback, as was and is the usual custom for film. I was pleased to see the Jane Wyman and Bing Crosby duet of "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" among them from Here Comes the Groom (1951). This was mentioned on my previous post on that movie here.
Other gems are when Ethel Waters sings "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" in Member of the Wedding (1952), and Julie Andrews singing "Jenny" in Star! (1968) in an acrobatic circus skit.
Have a look at the video on YouTube here.
Also, we mark the passing of Glynis Johns, whose 100th birthday we noted in October in this previous post. Well done, Sister Suffragette, on a long life and splendid career.
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