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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 ...
(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 ...
"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]
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]
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: ...
On the radio in 1945, his talents were showcased on the Gordon MacRae Show on the CBS network in collaboration with the conductor Archie Bleyer. [6] In 1946, his fifteen minute variety show Skyline Roof also featured emerging musical talent, including the accordionist John Serry Sr. [7] [8] [9] MacRae was also the host and lead actor on The Railroad Hour, a half-hour anthology series made up ...
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]
In 1956, Turner appeared in her only film, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (with Shirley Jones), based on the successful stage musical. In the film, she played the role of Nettie Fowler. She sang the role of Nettie again in a Command Records studio cast recording of Carousel, starring Alfred Drake and Roberta Peters, recorded in 1962.