The Big Jill
Yesterday, I posted a video of Eva Marie Saint as the Mystery Guest on a 1958 episode of What's My Line? and told a story about having a charming conversation with her. After embedding that, I did a search for a video of her at a TCM event talking about that film. While tracking it down, I came across another video which I was fascinated to find. And here it is, a scene from her movie after that, the 1960 film, Exodus, based on the Leon Uris novel.
But -- I'm not posting this because of the Eva Marie Saint. That's not what caught my attention. Rather it's because of her young co-star in the scene, 15-year-old Jill Haworth. Now, that name likely won't mean much if anything to most people reading this, though it will to my friend (and occasional reader of this site) John Kander, whose uncle (of the same name) wrote the Broadway musical Cabaret -- among many other shows. That's because six years later Jill Haworth, having grown up, created the role of 'Sally Bowles' in the original Broadway production of Cabaret.
And here is Jill Haworth at the 1968 Tony Awards singing that song. The video quality isn't very good, but the song and shortened performance most certainly are --
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