Little Shop of Horrors is another relatively recent example of a movie to musical to movie musicial.
The movie Mame (1974) was adapted from the stage musical Mame (1966), which was in turn adapted from the stage play Auntie Mame (1956), which was adapted from the novel Auntie Mame (1955).
No version was adapted from the 1958 movie Auntie Mame.
snerk It’s my understanding that Ms. Ball floated the economy of Egypt throughout the middle portion of the 20th Century…
Lucille Ball’s hair was clearly not henna color.
I fondly recall a moment from an old Letterman episode, possibly when he was visiting Hollywood? He sent a camera around the studio building he was in, pointing out various things. The camera stopped at a spot where the floor was splotched with red paint and Letterman said it was the spot where Lucille Ball got her hair colored. The audience was appalled at the shot on Lucy but I laughed my ass off. I hate Lucille Ball.
Oh, and as long as we’re semi-playing the source material game, Hairspray was inspired by “The Buddy Dean Show,” a local Baltimore TV dance show along the lines of (although IIRC it pre-dated) “American Bandstand.” Waters wrote an essay about the show that was published in 1985 and collected in his book “Crackpot.”
Yeah. Claude was sick for a while, and then he went away to Arizona on vacation, but in the end he worked something out with Cher’s people and she did the show for all 5 people in Somerset.
Did you know Buddy Dean died just last year?
I had no idea. Every double bubble in Baltimore must’ve been at half staff.
And I misspelled the name; it’s Deane.
You know what would be fun but totally evil? Tell Callista Flockhart she could have the role if she could put on enough weight.
That’d be sorta evil. I think really evil would be saying the same thing to Kirstie Alley.
Then when she gains it, give the job to her former co-star Travolta anyway.
If it has to be a man, I’d go with Goodman (I love his Linda Tripp drag). Of course part of me hopes it bombs because it could cause an explosion of “men in a dress are automatically funny” films and give encouragement to Tyler Perry that he simply doesn’t need (his plays would actually be funny if it weren’t for him as Madea).