I think she’s cute. I like big noses & wide eyes. So there.
Some people!
Hypothetical- but who else (around at the time) could have played Sally Bowles as well? For that role alone she is a star. :o
Judi Dench was playing the role on the London stage in the late sixties, and Sally Bowles was originally an Englishwoman. You can listen to excerpts here. It’s a draw: Liza was a better singer, but Judi probably the better actor.
In 1999 she performed the part again in a studio recording of the musical.
Never having heard of Judi Dench before Mrs. Brown, when she was decidedly…uh, frumpy: picturing her doing Mein Herr in the little low-cut short pantsuit outfit is causing a terminal case of cognitive dissonance. My head’s about to explode.
Calm down. Judi Dench in Cabaret.
After watching Cabaret, I was able to forgive her for everything else she did. But I also liked her in Arthur and she’s great in Arrested Development
Since we’re talking Cabaret, it might be worth mentioning that Liza did not originate the Sally role in the American stage production. Jill Haworth did. While we’re on the subject, the “Money Song” in the stage version is far better than the one in the movie. Don’t know why they changed it.
You get major points for digging up a photographic cite for such an obscure reference. But if that’s as sexy as she got, then she was still way short of the sexiness required for the role. Way short. Liza brought the sexy (back then anyway).
They re-Englished her for the New York production that ran in the 90’s (they kept the character English if not always the actress).
I was lucky enough to see it in it’s original space, an old theater that had been completely renovated for this production, which was re-named the Kit-Kat Klub after the club in the play (so it was like you were seeing the show in the club in which the show took place!).
Natasha Richardson was an excellent English Sally Bowles, but the show totally belonged to Alan Cumming who was amazing and brilliant as the Master of Ceremonies.
Never was she à talented singer. She was only famous due to nepotism.
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And what a depressing thread it was - entirely focused on judging actresses on their looks. Judi Dench is an acting genius, but apparently she is just not pretty enough. God.
As this thread was bumped 18 years later from a nothing of a bump, I think I shall close this one.