It says so much for Julie Andrews that she made so many friends among her co-stars, lasting friendships. And that the floor manager was the to-be-famous Joseph Papp! What wonderful memories. Julie is as lovely as she was 1957. Lovely from within.
I had just turned nine and this was the highlight of that March for me. The step sisters’ song was my favorite although I only remembered some of the lyrics. My poor family, I sang everything I remembered from that performance. And I wanted to be Julie Andrews, still do.
I love the fact that each of the cast has a vivid memory of what had been going through the show.... decades in present time. It shows, that they really dedicated to their craft. They just not going there to do the show, but mingling with each other.. you can simply see their bond.
IT's a very rare thing when a person's appearance actually IMPROVES with age. That was certainly the case with the always gracious, charmingly modest Julie Andrews. How she mneged ton b pretter in her fifties sixties an sventies than she was in her early twenties, I'll neer know, but she DID, and I don' beliee it came from plastic surgery. It ca from WITHN. But then Kay Ballard, who was certainly never a beauty, developed into a gracious, dignified, absolutely charming person, herself. I KNEW Edie Adams. We went to the same high school, and she too remained charming, vivacious and delightful all her life. I'm nearly 80, and I've loved the theater since childhood, but I'm glad I've lived long enough finally to appreciate more fully what a SPLENDID contributin these remarkable people gave to American Culture. How I wish we could benefit from their high quality and essential graciousnes today!
I watched this version of Cinderella for the first time last night. What a treat. Julie Andrews is perfect of course. Why was Jon Cypher not a huge movie star? Ghostly and Ballard were amazing as were the rest of the cast. Adams' beautiful voice was a surprise to me. Thank you so much for posting this making of video.
I never even knew that this movie existed! I just saw it today for the first time and I loved it. The year of my birth, 1957, but I wasn't alive yet when they broadcast this gem. Jon Cypher did become a very well known actor, and much sought after. I worked with his mother [when I was 18] at a lab supplies company in Pittsburgh, PA. She was so proud of her son, Jon, and rightly, so. Have a blessed Christmas.
This precious and charming gem of a film is a beautiful dream that touches my heart every time I see it. Everything about it is wonderful: the music, lyrics, cast and production- incredible!
I was 11 years old when I watched the original live performance. After 65 years, I still can sing every song from the show. It's forever etched in my musical memory! Thank you R&H and the glorious cast and orchestra. A Lovely Night!!!!!!!!
"In my own little corner" it's awesome to reconnect with the cast of a well-done interpretation and performance of the timeless Cinderella tale.🎯🎵🎶👸👵👩👩🦰🤴🏰🐭🐶🐎📺🤝🏾🕚🌅 Stay safe everyone!
I didn’t realize it was broadcast in color. I’ve only seen a black and white version on RU-vid and it was amazing - but I’d love to have seen the color broadcast.
Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing the broadcast when I was 14 or so, and Ten Minutes Ago made such an impression that I remembered the tune for years. Those incomparable Rodgers waltzes! The lyrics are great too. As a middling uke player I especially enjoy that and certain other R & H songs. Being able to their beautiful chords makes me appreciate the songs all the more. I had no idea Hammerstein wrote The Last Time I Saw Paris, another beauty.
Jon Cypher is still a hottie and OF COURSE a friend of treasure Betty White !! 🥳🥳 I will always watch anything Julie Andrews makes. Anyone remember the TEXACO Christmas albums Julie made in the 60’s?
@The Julie Andrews Archive Simply wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this! I grew up with the 1965 Lesley Ann Warren version of Rodgers' and Hammerstein's _Cinderella_ , and it is still my favorite version, but I also loved the Julie Andrews version that I just watched on your channel, and listening to the actors' memories about the production makes me love it even more!
I grew up with the Julie Andrews version, and hated that they remade it (I was a child!). I still have the vinyl album my Uncle John went out and bought as soon as he could. Thanks to him I have all the wonderful musicals of that time. Camelot with Julie and Richard Burton and My Fair Lady etc. The Lesley Ann Warren version was good but it had advantages the earlier one did not have.
Excellent documentary. Unusually so. The facts are given, leaving us to attach such meaning as we may, to them. The joy of even private interpretation, instead of having it constantly pushed upon us, i.e., being spoon fed.
Never seen this featurette until now! I love this version of Cinderella. First I discovered Brandy’s turn before I found the DVD of Julie in the glass slippers. The Stepsisters occasionally steal the show.
Yes, Dame Julie Andrew's was and is very generous with her co-stars in any broadcast event. She knows what the director and producer are looking for in her performance, so there isn't any need to monopolize camera time. She is the consummate professional performer. This is by far my favourite "Cinderella" of all the productions. Thank you for posting it and for sharing.
I knew Jon at the time he was doing Hill St Blues...and he is SO SO NICE...we became good friends but he moved out of L.A. and we lost contact. Very good guy...
@@zabellehuss737I just “discovered” this gem of a rendition, only a couple days ago! The entire production (sets, orchestration, choreography, and acting talent) is fantastic! And, Jon Cypher’s singing is exceptional and his portrayal of the prince is IMPASSIONED.
Graciousness, being key word. Use it on people you see every day...they are taken back a little, but you see their chest go up and smile big... It really does something spiritual in them I think.
Edie Adams explained in a separate interview that they did a kinnescope copy first. Some famous person argued with that it was NOT in color. Edie knew the color version jad her hair different and also that she found photos for publicity saying Cinderella in Color. .Edie sent copies to to the woman who were adamant it was in black and white.
Jon Cypher out of sync with the music -- I thought it was intentional to convey the prince's anguish over losing his love. Everything had to follow convention in the fifties, but today, it holds up. It gives that scene some post-modern edginess.
I wish that somebody would find and post a better copy of "Once Upon A Mattress"...with Carol Burnett! The one on U-tube is very bad visually and aurally...
Jon you sang very very well Jules your always phenomenal what a gifted voice so much poise and class. The whole cast was great Is there a color version of this?
I have always wondered that. People often talk about how she was not casted in "My Fair Lady". But when she was also not used for "cinderella" people didn't seem to care. she was the best cinderella and eliza. he voice is silky. tge 1965 cinderella star's voice was too cartoonish
In 1957 she was just 21. Cinderella needs to be young. Would a 30 year old be as convincing? Besides, Julie doesn't like to repeat roles so I doubt she would have wanted to do it.
@@gabrielbrewster107 Julie Andrews was not cast in the remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella' in 1965 because, by that time, it was eight years since the 1957 original television version and Miss Andrews, as beautiful and youthful-appearing as she still was, at 30 years of age was deemed to have been too old to have portrayed the naive young "Cinderella." As to why Julie Andrews did not portray "Eliza Doolittle" in the Warner Brothers film version of "My Fair Lady," while Miss Andrews by 1964 was a known Broadway star and also well-known in her native England, she was not at that time as well-known in films and internationally. Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" had not yet been released, much less "The Sound of Music." It was not until "Poppins" that Miss Andrews became the huge worldwide star she would remain thereafter. So, although she was no singer, Audrey Hepburn, who by then was a very famous film actress for over a decade (beginning with the 1953 film "Roman Holiday"), was cast as "Eliza Doolittle" in the film version of "My Fair Lady" instead of Julie Andrews, who originated the role on Broadway. Most of Miss Hepburn's singing as "Eliza," except for some Sprechgesang in "Just You Wait" and trio-singing with Rex Harrison ("Professor Henry Higgins") and Wilfrid Hyde-White ("Colonel Hugh Pickering") in parts of "The Rain in Spain," was recorded by the renowned ghost singer Marni Nixon. Amazingly, even the excellent singing voice of actor Jeremy Brett, who portrayed "Freddy Eynsford-Hill" (the character who sings "On the Street Where You Live") in the film version of "My Fair Lady," was also dubbed, by ghost singer Bill Shirley, who was best-known as the singing voice of "Prince Phillip" in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty."
@@gabrielbrewster107 Lesley Ann Warren did a very credible job in her interpretation of "Cinderella" Miss Warren was certainly believable, very pretty and also younger by a few years than even Julie Andrew, when the latter portrayed "Cinderella" eight years earlier. Where Miss Andrews excelled over Miss Warren was in the singing of the role. Miss Warren was just not a naturally brilliant singer. Still, Miss Warren's singing was quiet serviceable for the production. Stuart Damon (as "The Prince") was more handsome than Jon Cypher, and also more witty. Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick were comedic stage veterans, very much equal to Kaye Ballard and Alice Ghostley as "The Wicked Stepsisters." And Jo Van Fleet was suitably, sneeringly sinister as "The Wicked Stepmother" too. Celeste Holm's "Fairy Godmother" was more regal and mature than Edie Adams' humorously quirky hovering presence. And Walter Pidgeon and Ginger Rogers certainly lent a touch of Hollywood royalty to the 1965 production. Plus the facilities of CBS Television City in 1965 afforded considerably more spacious digs than the more claustrophobic CBS Studio 72 in New York, utilized in 1957. All in all, both the 1957 and 1965 productions of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" have their merits and their disadvantages. Although, admittedly, Julie Andrews' singing was a very big advantage. Coincidentally, Misses Andrews and Warren would work together in the Blake Edwards film "Victor,/Victoria" in 1982, 25 years after the original TV version and 15 years following the remake of "R&H's Cinderella".
Agradeço pelo Vídeo, porém eu não falo nem entendo inglês, ao menos vi algumas fotos de atores que pude reconhecer, seria ótimo se tivesse ao menos legenda em português. Obrigada, pela oportunidade de poder dar a minha opinião.
oi desculpe nao falo portugues então não posso simplesmente "adicionar" uma legenda em português aos vídeos. no entanto, você pode comprar o DVD em sua região e ativar as legendas. cheers!
Um these photos of her in a dress are not from Cinderella ....she never wore that lovely dress in THAT production. The dress in the production was very bland
The pre-production publicity photographs feature the 'big' dress but it was found impractical in the actual show due to the restricted studio space and also the need on a live show for very quick costume transformations by Julie.
@@TheJulieAndrewsArchive Some folks on the internet are saying that this was the “dress rehearsal tape,” a complete run-through for the benefit of the director and production crew to watch and perfect any flaws, lighting, audio, mic-ing, etc., so they could then present a better live show. But, after watching and re-watching this docu, I’m not so sure. I’m now thinking this was the actual live performance b/w videograph. Am I correct? P.S. It’s tragic that the color version is completely lost to time…
OH, FOR CHRISSAKES! THE SUBTITLES ARE NOT ONLY ANNOYING BUT TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. WORST OF ALL, 90% OF THEM ARE INCORRECT. THE TERM IS "CORPS DE BALLET" (GROUP OF DANCERS) NOT "COURT A BALLET!"
DOROTHY STICKNEY--S-T-I-C-K-N-E-Y--NOT "STICK ME!" CORPS (PRONOUNCED "CORE") DE BALLET--NOT "COURT!" REPRISE (PRONOUNCED "RIH-PREEZ") NOT "REPRIEVES!" FOR CHRISSAKES, IF YOU INSIST ON INCLUDING THESE CAPTIONED SUBTITLES, DO THEM CORRECTLY!
