"They All Fall In Love" ~ Gertrude Lawrence ~ 1929

[WSenator1]

Wasn't she the original Anna in "The King and I" on Broadway?

[rogharm]

GREAT CLIP!!!!!!****LOVE GERTIE. great voice and great minor key operatic range. this great. thank you poster. this makes wants to go back to 1929 as i love the singers and operatic arrangement. Rated 11+ ROGHARM

[goodguyfun]

Brilliant. What a magnificent talent she was. Thank you for posting this!

[Susana1027]

Wow - no wonder she was such a star! Thank you for uploading this for us. It's the first time I've seen any footage of Gertrude Lawrence.

[Geostrum2]

She was delightful. I met Dorthy Sarnoff before she died. She starred with Gertie in King and I. She said everybody in the cast loved her.

[steph42uk]

@Geostrum2 Would love to see the video of her as Anna in costume with Rodgers and Hammerstein on the Ed Sullivan show in 1951 I think last was the last moving footage of her before she died suddenly in 1952.

[IDOLODORO]

she is wonderful

[44032]

I've just watched "Star" and "Funny Girl" which came out in the same year and are about nearly exact contemporaries, Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952) and Fannie Brice, (1891-1951). In this clip, we see Gertie doing what i'm sure are quick impressions of Sophie Tucker...and then Fannie Brice! Great stuff. You gotta love U-Tube!

[jackgardner13]

Pretty certain that this film was shot in Astoria, New York where Paramount had studios. The film does exist and I've seen a bootleg copy. It's a great film. Universal now holds the rights to all of the early talkie Paramounts - but getting them to release them . . .that's another story

[charade97]

@jackgardner13 Dear Mr.Paramount, Would you be kind enough to release Battles Of Paris'? Thank you so much.

[perfectjazz78]

@charade97 They don't have it.

[charade97]

@perfectjazz78 A very curt and succinct answer!!

[perfectjazz78]

Yes, the only film copy is in the hands of a private collector. There are murky dupes, like mine, floating around out there.

[charade97]

@perfectjazz78 I wouldn't mind, also, a copy of Broadway melody with Fred Astaire and ..and?! forgotten her name!

[newrochellephoenix]

She was a---STAR !

[racingrubberbiker]

The actor who introduces Gertrude is Charlie Ruggles, so this must have been made in America. He was later in "Bringing up Baby"

[racingrubberbiker]

This must have been made in America, as I notice Charlie Ruggles in the begining of the clip. He was later in "Bringing up Baby" with Hepburn and Grant

[sisalrug]

this is the first moving footage of her that I've seen. I can see what her fame and reputation sprang from; she is deceptively natural and unstudied which had to have been a revelation at that time. A very engaging and captivating manner.

[Playgirl641]

Im related to her!!!!! Shes my nans aunty!

[jmal1929]

So am I! She was married to my Granfather, Richard Aldrich until her death :)

[chajiim]

wonderfull!!!

[adknorth]

What an absolute treasure. There's obviously very little on Gertie out there, other than in the bio and a few other books. What a wonderful thing to be able to see her perform. Thank you so much.

[globalman]

Thank you a million times...I've never seen this. There is sadly so little of Gertie on film. Where was the dvd....why did it come too late for the real talent.

[exaudi33]

Truly of historic importance. I can but say thank you.

[54hardtop]

This is from The Battle of Paris - - - does this movie survive????? My God, if it does can we see more of it?? Thought this movie was lost. Pleeeeze , , , more!!!!!!!!

[perfectjazz78]

Yes, you are correct.

[skullyj2002]

Actually this movie's not "lost," it's just never been released on video or DVD. You can occasionally find a bootleg copy on video on Ebay.

[LadyLizaElliott]

Oh thank you so much for this footage, can't tell you how rare these are to come by, I'm so glad to see more Gertrude Lawrence appearing here! Thanks so much!

[MBonEB]

Sort of a fun forerunner to Cole Porter's "Let's Do It."

[perfectjazz78]

Actually this was written one year after "Let's Do It". Let's Do it was written a year earlier in 1928 for the musical 'Paris'. This is a song Cole Porter wrote for the musical film 'Battle of Paris' in 1929.

[MBonEB]

Ooops! you are quite right. Still, it has its similarities. Incidentally, "The Battle of Paris" was Porter's first score for film. That same year (1929) they filmed "Paris' with the original leads Jack Buchanan and Irene Bordoni, but I read that they dumped the Cole Porter score -- sad.

[DavidHuxley]

Regardless of whether or not they dumped the score for the movie version of PARIS, they also lost the movie itself!

[AnotherGoddess]

Fantastic.

[henry814]

Excellent! Love that fan - so twenties!

[kspm01]

What a delight!

[HarborGuy]

Great Fun - Thanks!