South Pacific-Bali Hai

Tony Award Winner Juanita Hall reprised her Role as Bloody Mary in the 1958 Filmversion of South Pacific.
On the Stage she sang the Songs by herself but in the Movieversion she was dubbed by Muriel Smith who played Bloody Mary in London

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Entertainment

Tags:

• South
• Pacific
• Juanita
• Hall
• Bali
• Hai
• 1958

[cooper79jeffr]

@windstorm1000 - Hollywood went a bit crazy with garish color in the 1950's (especially in in comedies and musicals). They were competing to survive against TV which was mostly black-and-white then, and were practically yelling at the audience "LOOK AT ALL OUR COLORS!!"

[windstorm1000]

@cooper79jeffr I agree about the filtering---it almost ruined the movie for me. There was NO need for it.

[415SamoanBeauty]

OMG. I am not even CLOSE to singing like her. Damn Vocal Federation.. UGHH

[MacInnich]

@windstorm1000 I think it did ruin the movie, I'm sorry to say.

[darlinkula1]

Wonderful use of color, the people who need this film to look "normal" are bores.

[DonnaSunAgain]

@cooper79jeffr and they called it "Technicolour" *D

[goodtogonow3]

This scene was filmed on a beach in Kauai called Lumahai beach. I was so excited to be there with my new wife. We loved the movie.

[IthoSmith9]

The woman singing this looks so sad and blue.

[christineonthecoast]

I personally love the filtering.

[pompom11]

This was the song of this movie that I always looked forward to hearing.

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Some enchanted evening.

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and younger than springtime, back when musicals were musicals.

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And guys had normal bodies not all ripped with steroids. These guys look like they did push-ups and sit-ups like we did in the 1960's in gym.

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Men need to get back in shape like this again, do it guys!

[LurlineAtAnchor]

I've never understood why this movie, and none other I've seen, used this ridiculous color filtration. It's not just TV, and unlike "Fantasia" and some other films and cartoons of the period, it doesn't fit in to the LSD experiments of the era.