What is wrong with you people??!!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Gwen Verdon
xavrush89 — 22 years ago(February 11, 2004 02:49 AM)
I come to Gwen Verdon's board and there's not a single thread here? I would have thought the fairly recent success of the film version of
Chicago
would have revived interest in her! Have none of you seen
Damn Yankees!
?
Cocoon
?
Marvin's Room
?! Do I have to do everything?! LOL
But seriously, I am proud to be the first to start a message board for the late great Gwen Feel free to post your memories, favorite films, etc.
SnakeSNAKE
SNAKE!
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xavrush89 — 21 years ago(April 26, 2004 02:57 PM)
Just watching the three movies I put in my post above is enough. But if you can get a hold of the ORIGINAL Broadway soundtrack to Chicago, it's a winner too. Not that there's anything wrong with the Bebe Neuwirth revival, but Gwen really "sells" her songs (along with Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach, too bad Gwen couldn't have been the voice of a Disney cartoon character like Jerry in
Beauty and the Beast
).
I wish I could have been alive when Gwen & Bob were at their peak, but at least they can be seen together briefly in
Yankees
.
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pinklvr211 — 20 years ago(August 31, 2005 04:18 PM)
I know what you mean, there are a billion posts for people like Hillary Duff but nearly no posts for Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, ect. I wish for once that people would look past the Pop/Disney Channel/Hip hop stars and look at the real talent.
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baran_erik — 10 years ago(April 01, 2016 01:57 AM)
Please, "real talent", the dancers of today could dance circles around those of 60 years ago. I've watched enough old movies to see that. Although Ms Verdon did look good in black face in The Mississippi Gambler. lol
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freetrhyme — 19 years ago(September 01, 2006 07:34 PM)
by (freetrhyme)
Thanks for starting up this topic and also for reminding us of such great talents such as Gwen and Bob. Too bad I wasn't around when they were at their very best.But, it will always be grand to see them dancing or choreographing as well as they did - because being such perfectionists as they both were - they managed to do everything great! What a feeling! -
Harold_Robbins — 19 years ago(October 10, 2006 06:00 AM)
I've just watched DAMN YANKEES again - thank goodness for film, so that Verdon's Lola is there for all to see. As "Mama Rose" sang in GYPSY, "Ya either got it, or ya ain't!"
GWEN VERDON HAD IT!
"I don't use a pen: I write with a goose quill dipped in venom!"
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xylonian-1 — 19 years ago(March 01, 2007 01:58 PM)
"I come to Gwen Verdon's board and there's not a single thread here?"
Have noticed this with some of these legends.no board when I first started here. Yet I have visited some of these lately and.there are posts.
Keep it up..
Agree with Damn Yankees comment Harold..!!!!
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Flagler_88 — 17 years ago(June 11, 2008 06:13 PM)
Go to Fosse.com if you haven't already, a place to discuss the man the works and the people in his world. I think due to the site crashing a couple of times people have been staying away, but it is back up.
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rbrtptrck — 17 years ago(March 15, 2009 11:34 PM)
Gwen was too much for 1950s Hollywood. They cut all her "bumps" out of "Damn Yankees." Her next movie was "Gentlemen Prefer Brunettes." She was cut comletely out of it because her dancing was too sexy. Her stage role in "Can Can" was split between Shirley MacLaine and Juliet Prowse in the movie version.
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ridgerunner72160-609-362419 — 13 years ago(December 11, 2012 04:48 PM)
I saw Can Can awhile back and didn't know that Gwen was in the stage version of it. I think she'd have been great in the movie version too. And that's not to take away from Juliet Prowse or Shirley MacLaine, but I'm wondering why they were picked over Gwen for the movie version.
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Randy-144 — 12 years ago(April 04, 2014 03:48 PM)
The reason for there not being any posts for Gwen when you wrote your post 10 years ago is that IMDb regularly scrubs the message boards of older posts. Since Gwen died in 2000, there would have been many "RIP type" messages dating from that time.
This IMDb link explains the reasons why messages are deleted starting with the bold
expired
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http://www.imdb.com/help/search?domain=helpdesk_faq&index=1&fi le=boardswhydeleted