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I believe she knew. It caused quite the kerfluffle before the film opened. Nixon claimed Previn blamed her for spilling the beans. Though how could anyone not know Hepburn did not have a trained voice after Funny Face and Breakfast? I think there is also a clip of the red carpet interviewer asking Hepburn about it as she stops to talk at the entrance of the Criterion going into the world premiere. Why such a shrewd experienced actress like her did not have it in her contract that she would do her own singing I do not understand. The way she was led on caused her great embarrassment. Watch her give the Oscar to Rex on youtube. This lady was beyond classy.

Didn’t even know Chips made it to cd let alone a 3 cd set. Those prices are quite the sucker punch. Big joe did you grab it when it came out? The middle part of Just You Wait is Nixon. You can hear the voice change when it begins One day I’ll be famous, then Hepburn starts again with And they’ll march you Henry Higgins. I always wondered if Nixon got a % of the lp sales and how much because it was a huge bestseller. She was refused WSS so Bernstein gave her a small part of his. Which probably ended up being a ton of money.

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to Mike(saps)– as they say beauty is in the eye of the

           beholder isn't it? 
                

to vindanpar- a year or so before the Katz/Harris

           restoration of MFL i bought an A+ cd
                           that was imported from Holland. it contains
                           the same tracks as on the soundtrack 
                           released by Columbia Records when the 
                           film first opened. it doesn't contain
                           any of the extraneous noise etc... that's
                           on the expanded cd issued with the Katz/
                           Harris restoration. 
                

to Al A.– if I am not mistaken Marni Nixon did not

           do all of Eliza's singing in MFL. i can
                           swear i read a few years ago the Just You
                           Wait number is Hepburn as is the reprise
                           of the song after Eliza and Higgins have 
                           their big fight after they get home from 
                           the ball. 
                

Joe, I’m sure you’re a nice guy but you do seem to love a lot of movies many others consider mediocre at best…

While not a fan of the film I’ve been a fan of the score(buying a cutout of the lp,there were a lot of those) since I was very young. The Bobby Darin album is also worth getting. And the 2 cd set is indeed excellent. Remarkable that all these isolated musical tracks were kept for an unsuccessful film when My Fair Lady’s extended cd had to use the musical tracks from the film soundtrack thereby having to include the extraneous noises. Were all those musical tracks tossed?

I wish the stage show had worked to give those songs a new lease on life. And I wish I could have seen it in Todd AO at Loew’s State as there are some wonderful visual sequences. Hell I wish I could have seen anything there before it was twinned.

Well Harrison on a giraffe was certainly a very famous image from Dolittle dominating the cover of the soundtrack album and block long billboard in front of Loew’s state and not simply a staged photo for publicity but a scene from the film cut before the opening due to disappointing previews.

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to Mikeoaklandpark- I saw The Rose three times during its 70MM exclusive engagement at the Ziegfeld. so I can imagine your horror when you took your friend to see it in one of the lower level auditoriums here. its kind of like who in God’s name would want to watch Lawrence of Arabia on an iPad or tablet?

Krakatoa, East of Java was I believe also false advertising. I mean it was an outright lie.

I would love to see photos of inside the theatre when it converted to seven screens. The basement theatres were lousy and BS Moss had mono system installed in the basement in 1981.

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to Al A. thanks as always for your info filled replies. be that as it may I’m sure they had a number of other lobby cards they could have used. I don’t know how much before Nicholas and Alexandra opened that the staff at this theater did up the display cases to either side as you entered. but to include a photo of a scene they most have known wasn’t in the film while it may not meet the legal definition of false advertising was certainly a really odd thing to do.

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to Al A.–

I thank you for your reply. its just I would say roadshow engagements where a film played at only 1 theater in all of NYC for weeks, months or in many cases well over a year is a somewhat different case. the only thing I can think of is this- I think the film is just about perfect as is but the big wigs at Columbia may have said “hey at 3hrs. 9mins. it s long enough” so at the last minute they cut out any scenes not pertaining to the title characters. so I’m assuming the posters, lobby cards etc…. were shipped out even before the final cut was arrived at.

Lobby cards with scenes not in the film were very common in the 70’s. Also, trailers with scenes that did not make the final cut and there was some controversy over newspaper ads that featured scenes not in the film. This was not limited to Roadshows.