George Sanders: Singer and Actor
Posted: February 11th, 2010, 8:42 pm
Call Me Madam (1953) is premiering on TCM this evening, 2/11 at 10pm EST. Though I'm not generally a fan of an Ethel Merman after the '30s, this movie is great fun, based on the life of socialite Pearl Mesta, and the cast includes a delightful Donald O'Connor dancing very well with Vera Lynn. Ethel is especially good here since we get to see her paired with the velvet-voiced George Sanders, who was a wonderful singer as well as one of the most entertaining bounders in the movies. In Call Me Madam he plays a nice guy and in the clip below he is singing Irving Berlin's "Marrying for Love" from Call Me Madam. Lucky Ethel Merman gets romanced by a guy who could have given Ezio Pinza a run for his musical comedy number:
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I really love Ethel Merman's early work in the decade of the '30s, though she lost all her subtlety as she aged. To catch a glimpse of the good Ethel, here's a clip from a Paramount short Be Like Me (1931). Wish that someone would upload her knockout version of Sing You Sinners from her first short, Her Future (1930). It's incredible.
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Did anyone else get to see this film?
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I really love Ethel Merman's early work in the decade of the '30s, though she lost all her subtlety as she aged. To catch a glimpse of the good Ethel, here's a clip from a Paramount short Be Like Me (1931). Wish that someone would upload her knockout version of Sing You Sinners from her first short, Her Future (1930). It's incredible.
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Did anyone else get to see this film?