Last week, I posted a couple of videos from a 1954 TV adaptation of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, where Ethel Merman recreated her famous starring role of nightclub singer 'Reno Sweeney' from the original 1934 Broadway production. The show was a huge hit playing 420 performances (about a year), which was major for that era. In fact, it was the fourth longest-running musical of the 1930s, and had one of Porter's great scores. As I had noted, Merman had one of her rare starring roles, repeating her role of 'Reno Sweeney,' in a 1936 movie version. And here below is a scene from that, with her singing of the score's famous songs, "I Get a Kick Out of You." You'll note Bing Crosby who co-starred. The staging is a bit weird, to say the least. But it's the song that's a joy. I did notice one lyric that got changed for the movie. The line, "Some get a kick from cocaine" was apparently too much for the ears of day's movie audiences, so it got rewritten as "Some like that perfume from Spain." Even if the line doesn't complete sense (whatever "that" perfume is from Spain...), it makes enough sense by sounding exotic, and actually perfectly (and cleverly) fits the original line that follows -- "I sure that if / I took even one sniff / that would bore me teriff -- ically, too."
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