Go home with bonnie Jean

[colintraveller]

why can't someone not upload the whole film ,,,PLEASE !!!

[deathlibrarian]

Was the old Mel Gibson movie Braveheart based on this? It looks really difference?

[SeattleLA]

Can someone please describe why the accents are bad? I am from USA- standard west coast accent, and I thought these accents were OK, but I heard that they are not good. And, how hard would it be for USA actors to learn a good Scottish accent?

[TheCarole63]

@ThusSpakeDenise I have a few hundred Van Johnson clips on The Van Johnson Project and the link to signing a petition for a Van Johnson postage stamp. It is our hope for are recognition and a revival of his work...

[blamstam]

Go home in Bonnies jeans?

[squirell1952]

QUESTION: You can get shoes that give a sort of a tap sound when you walk around in them.

what are these s hoes called? and where can one g et t hem? what should I ask for? Are these special shoes? can i not get an "ordinary" pair of them at a regular shop price? Obviously, you wouldn't wear tap-dance-shoes if you are out climbing mount everest. But do fill me in , please. THANKS VERY MUCH. DECEMBER-21-2011.

[MrsPippinBaggins]

I love this movie so much, but some of the choreography is painful to watch because I know how to do highland dancing and I'm scottish... hahaha

[windstorm1000]

Johnson is outdoing Kelly at being kelly---fun

[SpeegBJ]

When I'm having a bad day I pull up this tune. Born the year Brigadoon was premiered on stage, my parents (Charlie and Jean), chose to name me Bonnie Jeanne. Growing up listening to very nerd bagpipes in the house I hated it.....Dad became a Celtic dancer, was buried in his kilt... I love this musical more than ever now. Aye laddies!

[cosmicVcomicVcutie]

gene kelly was my 1st luv as a lil girl i rember seeing this with my grandpa and the look he gave me when i told him i thought he was hot lol

[ThusSpakeDenise]

@cosmicVcomicVcutie He was just gorgeous.

[momcubed76]

I hate when people pick apart a movie. Or in this case a musical. ha ha Just take it at face value and enjoy the singing and dancing. If you're going to pick apart a musical, 7 Brides for 7 Bros is really about a bunch of hillbilly male chauvinist pigs. LOL But that doesn't stop me from watching it and loving it! :)

[ThusSpakeDenise]

@momcubed76 Oh stop wit that hillbilly chauvinist pigs clap trap. What utter rot!

[momcubed76]

@ThusSpakeDenise They are!!! In the movie of course. It's just a movie. Nothing personal.

[ThusSpakeDenise]

@momcubed76 No. They were not!!! They were men who longed for a woman. They simply did not possess urban social skills to woo a Townie gal. If you recall - at the end of the movie - NONE of the women wanted to leave.

[momcubed76]

@ThusSpakeDenise k

[prideofclouds]

I love all the songs but this and 'The Chase' remain my faves

[TokyoSpike]

SPOILERS -- I love this musical, but it is a story where you have to ignore a massive fundamental problem -- the villagers don't appear to have been allowed to choose whether they wanted to be trapped forever in Brigadoon. And why should one person leaving destroy the miracle for everyone? Because that creates the threat at the end, I know, but it would have been more fair to just bar such a person from ever returning.

[aaliyahjani1]

OMG THIS SONG IS AWESOME

[Lmbubba964]

This is Pretty good but we did it in my high school and its not any where close to are charlie! no one can replace him i can believe he graduated!

[iliveinthetwilight]

what a lovely male alto :3

[DFDalton1962]

The one bright spot in an otherwise dismal movie. At its core this is a deeply pessimistic tale (Kelly's character commits a kind of suicide at the end), and I can understand why the more uplifting "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" trounced it as the most popular musical movie of the year.

Plus, I couldn't help but calculate that if the youngest resident (@ 7 years old) of that "charming" Scottish village lived a full life of 70 years, he'd be reappearing in roughly the year 2,299,552 AD.

[charliemctruth]

 Fucking wonderful !

[TheNeonLime]

Oh I love this musical! I don't care what anyone says about it, I will always love it :)

[capttheo1]

Could someone answer a question for me? When filming a musical such as this, I know that they record the music in the studio and do a playback on set, but do they do just the music or the singing too, for the same reason?

[JohnnyContagious]

@capttheo1 They playback the singing too. The taps are added in later.

[squirell1952]

A lovely, lovely, lovely tune, a bit of a Scottish Riverdance almost! But who was the main singer? Was he Scottish or American or What? A good voice but not as good as that of Kenneth McKellar.

[JohnnyContagious]

@squirell1952 Jimmy Thompson, and he's American.  He did a lovely version of 'Come to me, Bend to me,' the score's best song, which was mystifyingly cut from the film.

[ThusSpakeDenise]

@JohnnyContagious They probably did not want to distract fomr the Gene Kelly/Cyd Charisse romance.

[FAWLTYWORZELMELDREW]

A party in the Highlands.

[Escher3]

Gonna see this musical tomorrow... really looking forward to it. :D



[SuperJanerey]

seen this in amateur operatic production in lisburn and hav been hooked ever since

[NPC514]

At Scottish concerts, we toss around a keg of beer instead a beach ball.

[tallpaul521]

See "Local Hero".

[Eve91fitz]

Looooooooooove Gene Kelly!! :D

[Rollman1]

So This little village wakes up one day every 100 years Thy sleep like Sleeping Beauty They get one day to shit, shower and shave, eat, drink ,fuck,pay there bills Go home with Bonny Jean see you next century

[dailyrandomdrama]

@Rollman1 to the "brigadooners" its just like any other normal day, they dont feel its been 100 years just a normal day, but to the rest of the world its been a century

[Rollman1]

@dailyrandomdrama One century they will wake up to see there little village is in the middle of a shopping mall parking lot or a black neighborhood

[dailyrandomdrama]

@Rollman1 purty much(:

[ThusSpakeDenise]

@dailyrandomdrama These people, makng these idiotic comments, aobut how awful ti would be - they're mental. And kind of sad. Look around the world, today. I know it's a musical, and a fable - but the villagers are happy, they obviously have a great time, and they live in a very tight-knit community. The Harry character didn't try to run cause he was bored - he loved the gal so much he could not bear to see her marry another. Brigadoon seems like Heaven.

[london2z]

@ThusSpakeDenise Especially with all the beautiful women there, looking for guys!

[unclealand]

Look how light Van Johnson moves! He keeps up with Kelly and looks like he's having fun doing it. Kay Kendall did that, too, in "Les Girls." Now, if only I could stomach the rest of this show.

[MissLauri26]

this has got to be the worst representation of Scotland ever! and the accents are awful. but its so funny! the manic dude in the blue shirt cracks me up :)

[4440Winchester]

this is like the only time Van Johnson's character is having fun

[Francine7]

I love Brigadoon. 

[london2z]

@icemanNO1 I think someone's been taking in too much of that Highland mist!

[brahmin21]

reckon there's some scottish rite masonry going on in this spooky dream village....(33rd...degree)

[uofjim]

A story Van told was that they shot the movie in Cinemascope, and also in the normal Square screen; they did each take twice (Many theaters had yet to install the new huge screens). He finally said "hey, I'm making TWO movies here" and walked, demanding more money, which he got - and returned to finish the movie.

[8shaven]

I LOVE cyd Charisse in this movie, and I love her dress and I'm 13

[crunchie1151]

back you sad marchers, now we and you know where you'll march into the mists of time. So, get on the next banana boat back to...BRIGADOON- AFTER ALL THIS MARCHING to no where. It was and is Brigadoon the place you were looking for for all this time.

Turn off the light.......scum.

[crunchie1151]

at long last!!..i now know where the inbred squatting planters come from........go back you sad marchers, now we and you know where you'll march into the mists of time. So, get on the next banana boat back to...BRIGADOON- AFTER ALL THIS MARCHING to no where. It was and is Brigadoon the place you were looking for for all this time.

Turn off the light.......scum.

[OcarinaLink24]

Gene Kelly....YOU ROCK!!!

But in this song not as much as Van Johnson!!! =P

[rosapluemchen]

I 've been bonnie jean when we did this in school :)

[BillDFC]

There is a village hidden in the hills of Moidart,it is said it will re-appear when Scotland is once again an Independent Nation.

Saor Alba.

[bud9133]

Show this to a scotsman, see if he rages.

[OcarinaLink24]

@bud9133 Why would he?

[celticgurl93]

Hey do you think you could put up the song 'waitin' for my dearie? :D

[prideofclouds]

I'll soon have a wife and leave your's alone. Best line.lol

[fluffskin0o0o]

I just love Gene Kelly... <3 <3 <3

[PALINSMITH]

I love a Bonnie Jean

[casilino23]

Unico!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[markbilldebkevin]

In the 50's when this movie was filmed the :"modern" dancing was added to showcase the style of dancing the two stars were known for. Sadly, some of the best songs in the score were removed. Unfortunately, by the time this was made musicals were going out of style and the budget was very low. That's why it was done on a soundstage instead of on location. Still a great show!

[genrail1]

I actually prefer the slower tempo of this song, in the movie, than the fast one in the stage version. Charlie's dubbing is very well done. I guess the guy with the plastic keg is the "stooge" for comic effect; there's always a stooge somewhere...

[Bwaysinger94]

lol, I'm in this production right now, and it's sooo different than this. The tap dancing is cracking me up!!!

[rockchick80s]

Thanks for sharing flybreath. I love this film - have seen it numerous times. Magical.

[levanyzzuf]

Shyamalan ripped this movie off when he made The Village.

[Spen1030]

Such a lot of criticism of one of my favorite movies. I love Gene Kelly and thought the dancing was excellent. Van could dance and Gene could sing! Loved the song and the cast in period costumes,

Doris

[usmctanks1]

best line "we have witches in NY, we don't call them that".. Van shows he could dance, and Gene that he couldna' sing!! (by the way I think that most of the dancers from the London ballet?) like this music, for what it is, not how accurate..you know, like Braveheart!!! lol

[incubusbaby]

I was named "Bonnie Jean" because my mother liked the name from seeing Brigadoon...

[bigme1975]

@incubusbaby good scots name x

[Twinkeltinkerbell]

One of the best films i ever seen.. and im only 25 jears old! ;-)

I loved it to see with my mum :-)

[j9bean]

Gene Kelly is my favorite! This is the first movie I saw with him. Always my favorite. Cyd Charrise is beautiful!!!! Thanks for posting. Proud Gene Kelly is from Pittsburgh!

[Ari721]

Brigadoon is maybe chessy but soooo good!

[MrsMacKinney]

The fake scottish accent rather sounds like some polish people speaking english, the non-stop lasse/laddie mentions are nauseaus and the outfits are absolutely AWFUL, but: It is a great movie. It makes you laugh, you can sing along after the first chorus and have a blast pulling some Brigadoon-dance moves during a walk through the heather (Aye aye, the heatherrr, laddie!).

Everybody should watch it.

[secretsam215]

If you have seen even a half way decent production on the stage (and I include Community Theater) then you should be disappointed by this movie.The singing, except for Charlie with "Go Home With Bonnie Jeanne", seemed dubbed. The dancing was only mediocre. The original Agnes de Mille choreography is FAR superior to Kelly's efforts. And how in the name of all that is holy to musical theater could they possibly have omitted "Come To Me. Bend To Me"?(To say nothing of several other key moments)?

[PraisetoJehovah]

@secretsam215 In this clip the singing, except for Charlie with "Go Home with Bonnie Jean," was NOT dubbed. Charlie's song was dubbed by my good friend and wonderful tenor John Gustafson.

[Cerridwen624]

I grew up with this movie! I always watched when i was home sick. This was always my favorite scene!

[Jmanads]

love this film loadsss

gene kelly is brilliant

[heckshotstuff1]

Love this movie, I dont care who things its cheesy, especially the tap part.

[Bobbel888]

Simply Ingenious!

[EranoOwho]

Haha I done this musical witha musical theatre compay... we didn't have cool leggings like him!!!

[Scotsbell]

whoever gave me the thumbs down has to be either an American with a strange idea of what Scotland is about or has absolutely zilch taste in music!!

[skwrrl70]

Oh lighten up ... this is a charming song and the singer has a terrific voice. See the movie, it's a very fictional "long ago and faraway" scotland. Musicals aren't about realism.

[Scotsbell]

I have seen the movie, had to sit through the flaming thing as my gran, bless her, wanted to see it. I am well aware that musicals don't reflect real life but still regard this one as a nauseating mix of cheese and syrup.

[HaruhiChaaan]

haha i just bought this on dvd!!! love this film!

[1320madcat]

This is fantastic.Reminds me of the small town i live in.

[mkmih01]

Beautiful voice :)

[Parvati78100]

Love it!

[JohnPhilipSousa519]

I swear that the only things people do in Brigadoon do are pick flowers and meet in the glen.

[luvshermoosic73]

he also sang beautiful girl in singin in the rain!!!!! his voice is AMAZING

[snowsbeauty5]

My favorites are: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,Gone with the wind,Brigadoon,Carousel,West Side Story,Hans Christian Anderson,Oliver Twist,David Copperfield, and all the many Fairy Tale movies wth real people in them...NOT cartoons,such as Peter Pan,Briar Rose(Sleeping Beauty),Cinderella(w/Lesley Ann Warren),Snow White,Alice and Wonderland,Jack and the Beanstock, A Christmas Carol.Movies of the 50's and 60's were the best!

[Claubuza]

My favorite part is after Van Johnson fudges the note and he goes for it again with Gene Kelly. They look at each other like "hey, I/You've got it!" and shake hands.

Second favorite part is when they stop tapping because everyone is staring at them, but everyone wants them to keep going.

[usmctanks1]

best line in movie/

Girl; " do you have witches in NY" ? Van Johnson " yes but we don't call them by that name" I think that line slipped by the Censors!! LOL

[moodybluesgurl]

beg pardon, but, i think you mean Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The King and I is fabulous, with Yul Brenner, Holiday Inn, a few others, most of the musicals from the 30's 40's were great.

[annspade]

Fabulous! :D

[kcflatlander]

7 Bridges for 7 Brothers

[chocolatmorgan]

If I love Brigadoon, Oklahoma, Phantom of the Opera, Hans Christian Andersen, What else must I see?

[mariahrose210]

Singin' in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, An American in Paris, The Sound of Music, The Producers (the old version), Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me Kate

[mariahrose210]

and Guys and Dolls

[crocostimpy]

Wizard of Oz, Candide, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Dumbo, Westside Story, Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, Peter Pan...

[london2z]

@chocolatmorgan If you want to see some great old Hollywood musicals, check out Deanna Durbin. She was awesome- so talented.

[SeattleLA]

@london2z very true

[rialtobaby]

Me, I'll go home with bonny Jim!

[JSWHY]

I love this movie....I had a week off work when I first saw it...the next day I packed a bag jumped in the car and without a map

headed to Scotland arrived in Glasgow

and then saw signs for Loch Lomand

arriving there just kept driving and found GlenCoe......My dream had come true and I was living the film I visit Fort William at least once a year but alas still have not found My Brigadoon...Thank you for posting.

[2writewuvonherarms]

forget gene kelly..van johnson was so underated and he kept up step for step

[JohnnyContagious]

@2writewuvonherarms Yes, he did... but only because Kelly was dancing down... waaaaay down. I'd like to see Mr Johnson attempt the 'Be A Clown' number from 'The Pirate.'

[redredreds100]

@2writewuvonherarms You are so right here, I love this movie, take nothing away from Kelly, but VJ, is flawless, and as you say, step for step, nice comment

[peanutbeanma]

@2writewuvonherarms  i read somewhere that van johnson was actually gene kelly's understudy on broadway for pal joey

[MrDarcysBride]

@2writewuvonherarms Forget Gene Kelly? That's like saying, "Forget breathing."

[prideofclouds]

@MrDarcysBride Yeah Gene Kelly is a champ but I do agree that van Johnson was also fantastic

[ThusSpakeDenise]

@prideofclouds Van Johnson was a very very popular "light" comedic leading man, for years and years. He was a big handsome fellow. He's a bit of an SOB in this movie. His castng was very interesting, because he's playng aganst his own "type". As far as this role - it was a nice, subtle transition. He very gradually manuevered into all sorts of different types of roles. His dancing - yup - he keeps right up with Kelly. This was not a strenuous number, though.

[ThusSpakeDenise]

@prideofclouds Cont'd - I wish Van Johnson's films would undergo a revival. Alas - he's bene somewhat forgotten. He was a very good, and a very subtle actor. There's usuall;y al ot more to his performances, than just the surface elements.

Ever seen "Singin' in the Rain"? Donald O'Connor is as good a dancer as Kelly. He wasn't as handsome and overlty masculine. He ws always the comic relief. I realized that he was really HOT, when he was young. He'd have a very different career, today.

[Obistalker1]

I love the tap dancing!

[archergwen]

Gene Kelly is awesome! You just don't see this type of dancing nowadays. I've taken tap and it takes forever to get the right sounds. People don't have that kind of paitence anymore.

[CuriositysCat]

I wish I had those plaid pants.

[unqtious]

@CuriositysCat I bet you do.

[davespy81]

I'm so glad in the show Jeff doesn't dance and sing like this in the show... I feel it doesn't fit his character.

[GingerTig]

My Mom saw this movie when she was a teenager, and when she came out of the cinema she said she was going to marry a Scotsman one day. My Mom's name was Jean, and she married my Dad who came from Edinburgh. And I was born there. So a bit of a special movie for me !

[moodybluesgurl]

love this part and love this movie, my grandmother's name is Bonnie Jean.

[BigWoodyAllen]

Well I live in Loch Lomond and it's like living the film everyday!!

[dobbiessox]

also if you listen charlie loses his scottish accent like half the time! but this movie is AOK with me!

[dobbiessox]

OMFG our english teacher is having our class watch this and she SINGS IT EVERY TIME!!! the next class we came in we had just gotten past this part but she made us watch again! then the dvd player started skipping so we watched this part like 5 freaking times! for the rest of the day i had this song stuck in my head!!!!!

[babushkamandy]

wow, your so lucky - I would have loved watching this in class, we were stuck with shakespeare and the cruciable. Maybe she made the dvd skip on purpose(tee hee) she sounds like a great teacher! rock on MGM

[celticgurl93]

@dobbiessox

And thats a bad thing, why? lol it's Gene KElly, it's a great song, it's scottish..It's overall fantastic...Whats wrong with having it stuck in your head?

[MonetCracker]

This is my favorite film musical sequences of all time!

[jbdanfan]

Van Johnson is the second co-star of Gene's to leave us this week (Nina Foch from An American In Paris is the other.) Sorry to hear of their passings.

[Durant1994]

Rest in peace, Van Johnson. Dead this week at 92. This number is a classic.

[championlinkseys]

My school's musical this year is Brigadoon and I just found out today that I was cast as Charlie Dalrymple! I GET TO SING THIS SONG!!!! I'm SOOO excited!!!

[MANHATTANBEEFMAN]

Believe it or not this is my favorite movie....saw it on AMC one day when I stayed home from school. Never forgot it...its' message stayed with me ever since. Bought the CD! This is a great scene out of many great scenes in the movie. Van Johnson cracks me up. The best scene though is the last one in the movie with Gene Kelly going back to the bridge and meeting the old dude..."Tommy, my boy, if you love someone...ANYTHING is possible...even miracles" What a classic!!!

[JessicaD6661]

haha look at jene - kellys red socks :P

love him x

[skwrrl70]

Gene Kelly always wore bright socks to call attention to his feet while dancing. Guess who picked up on that tip ... Michael Jackson.

[MrsMacKinney]

The bright socks perfectly match the pants pulled up to the armpits.

[scribe56]

@skwrrl70 actually Van Johnson is the one who usually wore red socks

[JessicaD6661]

omg.. im 13 years old and this is one of my faverot moviess !!!!

and this is my faverot song init...

i love this movie soo much i v beeen trying to find it on youtube for 2 yearss !!!

soo glad i found it =D xxx

[Jisseppe89]

Shut it and grow up.

[JessicaD6661]

=o how rudee lol

[sarah07091978]

My favorite number in this musical! I'm still trying to get the steps down!!!

[mangaluva16]

oo i rememeber this!!!!i used 2 dance and laugh weneever i saw this part!!!!i tried dancing wat they were dancing ad fell down a lot laughin.....but this was one of my fave numbers!!!

[snapdrag0n7]

The one in the center always seemed particularly aware of the viewing audience at the close here, and I always found that a bit peculiar considering that this was performed for a camera. Somehow it seems understandable to briefly acknowledge an actual human audience but not one you've merely been filmed for. It's as if he wants me to applaud his gang's performance, but I know perfectly well they'll never hear me.

[usmctanks1]

That is the LONDON Ballet that Gene and Van are dancing with. My Mom loved Van in this movie, and I was able to play his role in Austalia in 1996 "Brigadoon at Bundanoon" (they needed a Yank) What they did NOT know was that I knew every line of the movie!!! and Even though I could not dance that well, I loved the part!!!

[deona22]

I remember seeing this when I was a kid back when we had the cable box called WHT.

[fareedom]

man! i saw this when i was a kid in school more than 11 years ago, but this magnificent tune still hung on in my head.. can't believe its on youtube. thanks for the memories, fiftyground..

[IwakiKatouLuver]

I absolutely love this song^^ Wonderful, under-rated musical!

[hellypep]

damm416 - is your daughter's name bonnie.. or jean :)

[buckra]

Hello, my name is indeed, bonnie jeanne. : ) I have always adored hearing this tune with my name running through it.

[usmctanks1]

Gene Kelly and Van johnson dancing with the Best, I believe the London Ballet?

[mca1218]

One of my favorite numbers in 'Brigadoon.' Thumbing a nose to all the cynics who always complain about spontaneous song-and-dance in musicals, I LOVE the natural way the dancing begins with Gene and Van- egged on by the locals- at 3:13. It's also one of the few times the cynical Van Johnson is really happy to be there. Thanks for this.

[saltwatersun]

One of the great scenes from this beautiful musical.....

[damm416]

belive it or not my daughter is named after this song