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Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American Western [5] musical film starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg. The film was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 musical Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Loewe. It is set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. It was directed by Joshua Logan.
Paint Your Wagon is a Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story centers on a miner and his daughter and follows the lives and loves of the people in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California.
It has been called Paint Your Wagon's "best known song" and "rousing but plaintive." [9] Musicologist Stephen Citron wrote, "Perhaps the most unusual song in the score is a beautiful ballad of lonely prospectors hungering for their women, 'They Call the Wind Maria' – not chauvinistic in this case, for each man is yearning for his own girl."
He had one more sizable film role in the 1960s, the role of "Rotten Luck Willie" in Paramount's 1969 musical Western film Paint Your Wagon, singing "They Call the Wind Maria". The New York Times critic opined that Presnell's role "delivered the golden opportunity to sing the unforgettable ballad."
Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop (later played by William Holden) in The Wild Bunch (1969), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon (1969), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood. Despite his limited singing ability, he had a hit with the song "Wand'rin' Star
Paint Your Wagon may refer to: Paint Your Wagon, a 1951–1952 musical Paint Your Wagon, a 1969 film adaptation of the musical, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg; Paint Your Wagon, a 1986 album by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry "Paint Your Wagon", the twenty-fifth and last episode in the 2005 children's television series, Muffin The Mule
O'Connell was born in Los Angeles on May 12, 1929. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War with the 45th Infantry Division. [1]O'Connell worked often with Clint Eastwood, with whom he first appeared in the 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon.
Lerner and Loewe, c. 1962 Lerner and Loewe is the partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. [1] Spanning three decades and nine musicals from 1942 to 1960 and again from 1970 to 1972, the pair are known for being behind the creation of critical on stage successes such as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot along with the musical film Gigi.