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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 ...
April 4, 1956: Alexander the Great: Alexander the Great grossed $300,000 from the cities sampled. [13] 15: April 11, 1956: Carousel: Carousel returned to number one in its eighth week of release. [14] 16: April 18, 1956: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit [15] 17: April 25, 1956: The Swan: The Swan grossed $356,000 from the cities sampled. [16 ...
"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: ...
The following is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, ... Carousel, directed by Henry King, starring Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae;
Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár 's 1909 play Liliom , transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline.