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:
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