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Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young, innocent mill worker, live in the small town of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.They fall in love, but are fired from their jobs; Billy because he paid too much attention to Julie and incurred the wrath of the jealous carousel owner Mrs. Mullin, and Julie because she had violated the curfew imposed by wealthy ...
"Soliloquy" is a 1945 song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, written for their 1945 musical Carousel, where it was introduced by John Raitt. Gordon MacRae performs the song in the 1956 film version. [1]
(1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), which co ...
The song was performed in the 1956 film version Carousel by Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. Other recordings. There were four hit versions of the song in 1945: ...
She co-starred as Louise, the daughter of Billy Bigelow, played by Gordon MacRae, in Carousel. [2] She appeared as Zaneeta, the daughter of Mayor Shinn (portrayed by Paul Ford), in The Music Man, [2] repeating the role she had in the national company of that musical. [6] Her last film was the 1966 small movie, Step Out of Your Mind. [2]
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical adaptation, Carousel, was made into a CinemaScope 55 color film by 20th-Century Fox in 1956, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. The movie version of the hit musical failed to attract wide public attention at the time, although its soundtrack album was a best-seller and remains so to this day.
He subsequently co-starred with Marlon Brando in Désirée (1954); [27] with Gable and Jane Russell in the Western The Tall Men (1955); and the film version of the stage musical Carousel (1956). [27] Mitchell was loaned back to MGM to co-star with Doris Day and James Cagney in the musical drama Love Me or Leave Me (1955). [27]
Ruick married actor Robert Horton in 1953. [8] She had co-starred with Horton in the movie Apache War Smoke the previous year. The couple separated just prior to their second wedding anniversary in 1955 and divorced in 1956, [9] just after he accompanied her to the world premiere of Carousel.