Thanks for posting that, David. I’d certainly never heard it before...

I suppose Vivian Blaine is best remembered nowadays as the original “Miss Adelaide” in the original Broadway and London productions of “Guys and Dolls”, and the subsequent movie version, co-starring with Sinatra, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons.

jeremyrose wrote:

Thanks for posting that, David. I’d certainly never heard it before...

I suppose Vivian Blaine is best remembered nowadays as the original “Miss Adelaide” in the original Broadway and London productions of “Guys and Dolls”, and the subsequent movie version, co-starring with Sinatra, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons.

Yeah that is what I most know her from too, but a decade earlier she looked totally different in State Fair (1945) with Dick Haymes. Vivian Blaine changed her looks a lot. She was a much better singer than she is given credit for.
 

State Fair is a favourite of mine because of Jeanne Crain. There was even a song in it that mentioned some singers and she liked Bing and a take-off of Bing singing, in the song there was also reference to Ronald Colman, whom I’m named after.
In 2003 I visited a couple of South American countries and I think it was in Bolivia going from the airport to La Paz, there was an old DC3 parked on the airport outskirts and on the tail was a painting of Jeanne Crain.