Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza sing “Some Enchanted Evening” (from South Pacific) on General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein, originally simulcast on ABC, CBS, NBC, and the DuMont Network in 1954. This is believed to be the only surviving film clip of Martin and Pinza performing a song from South Pacific, in whose original 1949 Broadway production they starred:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
Archives for March 21, 2012
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“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman