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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1957] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Directors Guild of America, USA [1957] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryBilly Bigelow asks for permission to be sent down "from above" for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. Billy worked at the carnival as a carousel barker, which is where he met Julie. The carousel owner, Mrs. Mullin, fired him... TaglineThe Most Glorious Entertainment Event Of Your Lifetime! More than your eyes have ever seen! 20th Century-Fox proudly presents the first motion picture in the new CINEMASCOPE 55 Curtain up...on a wonderful new world of entertainment! 20th-Century Fox proudly presents [Rodgers and Hammerstein`s CAROUSEL] Related MoviesCarousel [Remade as] (Year of movie: 2010) Liliom [Version of] (Year of movie: 1934) DiscographySinglesLouise`s Ballet You`ll Never Walk Alone What`s the Use of Wondrin` Stonecutters Cut It On Stone This Was A Real Nice Clambake When the Children Are Asleep Soliloquy June Is Bustin` Out All Over If I Loved You Mister Snow The Carousel Waltz |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Dr. Selden: [at Louise`s graduation ceremony] It`s the custom at these graduations to pick out some old duck like me to preach at the kids. Well, I can`t preach at you. I know you all too well. I`ve brought most of you into the world, rubbed linament on your backs, poured castor oil down your throats. I only know that now I got you this far that you`ll turn out to be worth all the trouble I took with you. I can`t tell you any sure way to happiness. I only know that you`ve gotta go out and find it for yourselves. You can`t lean on the success of your parents. That`s their success. And don`t be held back by their failures.
Billy Bigelow: [to Louise] Listen to him. Believe him.
Dr. Selden: Makes no difference what they did or didn`t do. You just stand on your own two feet. The world belongs to you as much as to the next fella, so don`t give it up. And try not to be scared of people not liking you, just you try liking them. And just keep your faith, and your courage, and you`ll turn out all right.
[Upon hearing that Billy will be a father]
Jigger Craigin: My mother had a baby once.
Trivia While appearing in a nightclub act with his wife at Lake Tahoe, Gordon MacRae received an emergency phone call to replace Frank Sinatra as Billy Bigelow in the film version of Richard Rodgers`s and Oscar Hammerstein II`s stage hit Carousel (1956), after Sinatra walked out on the filming when he discovered that every scene was to be filmed twice - once for regular Cinemascope and once for Cinemascope 55. Within three days MacRae, who was already familiar with the Broadway show and had wanted to play the role, reported to the set within three days. Ironically, the producers then discovered a way to shoot in Cinemascope 55 and then convert it to regular Cinemascope without filming the movie twice. The original stage production of "Carousel" opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York on April 19, 1945 and ran for 890 performances (a little over two years). Of their five great musical classics -- the others were "Oklahoma!", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music" -- it was the one that had the shortest run, probably because of its very serious plot. But it is the one most highly regarded by many critics, and several of its songs are classics. In 1956, Twentieth Century-Fox had two Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II films in release--this film and The King and I (1956), as well as the CinemaScope version of Oklahoma! (1955). "Carousel", although a critical success, was a box-office failure (probably because of its very serious, downbeat plot), while "The King and I" was a smash hit both critically and financially. Because of this, Fox put all of its Oscar campaign clout behind "The King and I". The result was that "The King and I" was nominated for, and received, several Oscars, while "Carousel" became one of only two Rodgers and Hammerstein films to be completely shut out of the Academy Awards (the other being the critically savaged and unsuccessful 1962 remake of "State Fair"). Conductor and music supervisor Alfred Newman led the orchestra for both "Carousel" and "The King and I", and won for the latter film. One of "Carousel"`s art directors, Lyle R. Wheeler, and one of its set decorators, Walter M. Scott, also worked on "The King and I", and, like Newman, won Oscars for that film.
Richard Rodgers always considered "Carousel" his favorite score, even though it didn`t generate the number of popular hits that some of the other shows he produced with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II did. Shirley Jones has said that of all of her musicals, "Carousel" is her favorite Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II score. At the time that this film was released, it was not successful at the box office, but the film`s soundtrack album did become a national best seller.
Judy Garland, who was fresh from A Star Is Born (1954), was considered for the role of Julie Jordan, although that never materialized. Two songs from the show, "You`re A Queer One, Julie Jordan," as performed by Barbara Ruick and Shirley Jones, and "Blow High, Blow Low," as performed by Cameron Mitchell and a male chorus, were recorded, but do not appear in the final film. They are both included on the film soundtrack album. For the film`s premiere screening, a "double system" was used - that is, the film, projected at a 2.55:1 ratio, was shown in a reduction print, but the 6-track stereo soundtrack, which would not have fit on a reduction print, was played on a separate magnetic strip of film. Although this film was publicized as being filmed and shown in CinemaScope 55 (a wider-than-usual, 55 millimeter, 6-track stereo system), it was only shown in standard 35mm Cinemascope. However, a 6-track version of the soundtrack had been made in addition to the standard 4-track version, and it was a 6-track dub which was used in the film`s premiere. Frank Sinatra was cast as Billy, but backed out because each scene had to be shot twice (once in 35mm, once in 55mm). Three weeks after he left, they found a way to film the scene once on 55mm, then transfer it onto 35mm. | ||
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