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I just watched an excellent episode of the old Frank Sinatra Show with Ella Fitzgerald, The Hi Lo's, Juliet Prowse ... and Hermione Gingold! Always loved her in The Music Man and so I checked out her wikipedia bio, which just listed her film and theatre work. Did she ever do anything else, like nightclubs or comedy albums?
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Re: Hermione Gingold
Sun, July 30, 2006 - 12:32 AMShe did Sondheim on Broadway -- "A Little Night Music" (1973). I've the CD soundtrack and she is wonderful in the musical, esp. when she transitions from saying/singing "liaisons" to "raisins." And she was also in "Gigi" (1958).
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 8:20 AMShe played Biance De Passe in the movie "Bell, Book and Candle" with Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon and Elsa Lanchester. -
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 10:02 AMOoooh, that was her!
I loved "Bell, Book and Candle." Well, everything but the ending. -
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 2:18 PMOk seems the only audio available I can find so far of her is from musicals and stage. Found info on a bigoraphy. Here are some links etc
www.amazon.com/Hermione-G...137-3015255
seems there was also a biogprahy of her as well called "How to Grow Old Disgracefully"
here is link to the non-available book at Amazon (for isbn # etc) www.amazon.com/gp/product...137-3015255
here is what the Editorial Review says about the book
From Publishers Weekly
Anne Clements, Lady Eyre, writes in her prologue that she "tidied up" only some punctuation in Gingold's autobiography, appearing after the actress's death in 1987. True to the acid-tongued, droll comedienne's public persona, the book contains the unabashed story of a life that ended just short of her 90th birthday. For 78 of those years, Gingold worked on the stage in her native England and, from the late 1940s, in the United States. Her notoriously quick wit made her a favorite guest on TV talk shows, and she is also remembered as a gifted actress in films: The Music Man , Gigi , etc. Apart from performing, Gingold's other passion was amorous dalliance, and she clearly relished telling in this memoir about the many men she was involved with, husbands and lovers. This is a delightful, sometimes sad, story about a singular person and many of her legendary associates: Noel Coward, Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Judy Garland et al. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Shortly before her death last year at age 89, Gingold completed this memoir. Best known for her role in Gigi , Gingold shone in her later years on talk shows, where her sharp-witted, waspish sense of humor made her queen of the late-night circuit. Admitting that she lost some interest in sex after 85, she discusses her many affairs, including one begun when she was 81 and the man 26. She is frank about her two marriages and the fact that she left her two children for her career. Nonetheless, the book as a whole is disappointing. Her eagerness to include every clever one-liner she ever uttered results in a forced tone and choppy style that interferes with the flow of the book. Not a necessary purchase. Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 2:23 PMand of course i cant go talking about someone unless i post related pics.
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 6:55 PMExcellent movie....loved Piewacket......fab kitty! -
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 7:32 PMDidn't you find it disappointing when Kim Novak...
!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!! !!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!
...went "straight," got rid of all the cool stuff in her shop and went mainstream to please the man she had fallen in love with? Couldn't they have figured out a better way to wrap things up? Like HE came around, rather than her? Or they found some middle place? I found that disappointing, know what I mean? -
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 8:11 PMyes it was way dissappointing
but it was at a time in society when womens roles were still love honor and "OBEY". subserviant second class citizens was how they were expected to be.
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 8:56 PMPrecisely.....she gave up her empowerment, "Witchcraft", to be "NORMAL"....hey doesn't this remind anyone of another witch filled comedy! The 1950's....you know I loved em... Kim should've cast a spell on his butt and called it good! I wouldn't trade Pyewacket for housewifery....nope wouldn't do it! -
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 9:02 PMHow did the plot of "I Married A Witch" with Veronica Lake go? I have never seen it? -
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 9:10 PMShe marries him but doesn't give up her craft....but her father, not mother, tries to interfere with the whole shebang. It's not bad but it's kind of choppy and Veronica's character isn't actually very nice to begin with...worth seeing though if you haven't.
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 9:12 PM
Plot Summary for
I Married a Witch (1942)
After a ancestor of Wallace Wooley has burned Jennifer, a witch and her father, they cursed his whole family, that the sons will always get the wrong wife. In the 20th century, the witch comes back to give Wallace Wooley a love drink, so he falls in love with her the night before his wedding to Estelle Masterson, but she gets the drink herself and falls in love with him. So the problems start for everybody: She has fallen in love, her father doesn't want her to marry Wallace, Estelle doesn't want to marry Wallace, Wallace stars falling in love with Jennifer, but he had to marry Estelle because he wants to become Senator, but he noticed that she isn't the right girl for him.
Summary written by Stephan Eichenberg {eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de}
In 1672, two witches (Jennifer and her father Daniel) are burned by puritan Jonathan Wooley; in 1942, they rematerialize to plague his descendant Wallace Wooley, candidate for state governor. Wallace is about to marry tart-tongued Estelle, but Jennifer has other ideas; then her love potion goes wrong...
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Sun, July 30, 2006 - 9:29 PMYes, "I Married a Witch" is worth seeing! It's only on video, I'm afraid.
I'm also sorry to report Danny DeVito is remaking it, to be released in 2007.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0137823/
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