Tunnel of Love !!

@olivialipiec2506

Ай бұрын

and the big wheel keep on turning…

One of the most spectacular openings of a film. You just want to step inside and join the cast on the set. Just love that beautiful lit carousel and the waltz music. Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae were fantastic in their roles of Julie and Billy. Thanks to the genius team of Rodgers & Hammerstein these songs live on forever. CAROUSEL is absolutely brilliant.

Only a R&H musical can bring incredible joy, bring tears to your eyes, touch the soul and feel true love in your heart. 💗

This song is an "ear worm". I love it (and the movie).

This is an autobiographical scene. The writer of the original play, Franz Molnár was in his youth a carousel barker too, working in the Budapest City Park. He saw and heard so many strange things and weird events there, he included some of them in the story. Btw one of the carousels he knew still exists, anyone can visit, it's 112 years old now.

@maureenmiller7669

Жыл бұрын

I saw the original play and was unimpressed. It so needed people breaking into song. It's amazing how the score turned a dog of a script into a gem of a musical.

@gaborkovari5093

Жыл бұрын

@@maureenmiller7669 A failure when premiered but since then it has permanent success everywhere though still had no music until Molnar gave the rights to Rodgers and Hammerstein. Puccini and Gershwin would do anything to write score for the material but Molnar refused, saying he wants Liliom to be remembered as a Molnar play not as a libretto for a Puccini opera.

Thank goodness Shirley Jones called Gordon MacRae and asked if he was available to play Billy Bigelow when Frank Sinatra dropped out during filming at New England location.

@kennethwayne6857

2 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness indeed. I don't think they will ever be topped in their roles. Ditto for 'Oklahoma!'.

@devydu

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennethwayne6857 You are right! On KZread, I have watched some live theater performances with great performers, Jessie Mueller, Joshua Henry, Kelli O'Hara. But I will always consider my most favorite duo of Shirley Jones & Gordon MacRae in the film versions of "Carousel" and "Oklahoma". I also recently learned that Judy Garland was first considered for the role of Julie, but R&H wanted a soprano singer such as Shirley Jones to beautifully sing their songs. As much as Judy was a great singer, she is a more of a jazzy belter style that would have not suited the R&H songs. Plus, I don't think Frank & Judy would have the deep chemistry which Shirley & Gordon elicited.

@shannonnonnahs6943

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that till now, thanks for sharing.

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

Жыл бұрын

@@devydu Plus Judy Garland would’ve wanted to share “Soliloquy” with Frank Sinatra, which would have defeated the whole concept of the song, which is after all about Billy’s private inner thoughts and his having to step up to responsibility. No disrespect to Ms. Garland as I’m very fond of her work (I’m a big fan of one of her final films, the animated “Gay Purr-ee” as well as all her other work) and no disrespect to Mr. Sinatra either (he was great playing a similar swaggering antihero one year later in “Pal Joey”) but I think Jones and MacRae were excellent choices. I met Henry Ephron once and he said they had quite a tricky time with Sinatra, but I really wish I had asked him why Jones was somewhat cheated with the script. The character of Julie is often thought of as an underdeveloped character who gains inner and outer strength -a challenge to play on stage but effectively done in recent revivals…it would have done Jones a service if she had been given more lines in the film script, as with “Oklahoma!” and later “The Music Man”. Also I could understand the editing or moving around of certain songs, but the ones on the album soundtrack I certainly would have added so those characters also wouldn’t have been cheated, as well as a slightly longer version of the carousel scene as was originally intended from evidence of all the production photos.

@simonf8902

3 ай бұрын

Thanks. And lucky for the change. It’s not a Frank role.

I remember watching this in the 70s, I was probably 5 years old. It stuck in my head. Loved it, still occasionally watch it now.

Saw this movie in Elizabeth, NJ Regent theater..loved it so much I stayed to see it twice....the music is terrific...even bought the vinyl album at a thrift store 20 yrs ago....the grand music of Rogers and Hammerstein! Those were the days!!

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting facts: The complete 7 minute waltz is never heard in its entirety in the film, but only on the record.The original 50 min mono pressing of the vinyl record album has the entire “Carousel Waltz” and no bands between the songs, and “When the Children Are Asleep” is heard in its correct spot on the album’s second side.The later stereo pressing has only the second half of the waltz, bands between the songs,and puts “When the Children Are Asleep” on the album’s first side. There have been different cd releases too, the most recent on the Angel label which expands the musical program to 70 mins to include dance music and other portions of the soundtrack. The 50th Anniversary dvd (which includes Fritz Lang’s 1934 “Liliom”) also features an isolated score option for “Carousel” which is quite enjoyable. Some unusual aspects I detected when I was curious about the Spanish dub on the dvd : it actually uses different parts of the waltz to accompany the visuals in the carousel scene. Also,the later scene with Mr. Snow’s entrance is underscored with “The Sound of Music”(oops-wrong show!) but you have to give the dub editors credit for creative license!

Love at first sight - 0:55, 0:59, 1:04, 1:08, and 1:15. Gordon Macrae is fully "in the moment", and Shirley Jones's shy responses are beautiful.

Tunnel of Love Intro ❤

A beautiful tune create by a genius..Dick Rodgers.

how precise and watchable this scene is without many words said that the story is conveyed and in a time when they did not know that we now re able to re watch over and over again so readily,

This was one of the first record albums I ever had. The ending was so sad, that when I saw movie I cried and cried. As they say, they really don't make 'em like this anymore.

Great movie!

A bittersweet story. Still love the songs written by Rogers and Hammerstein for their inspiration to help one get through difficult times in life. Also for expressing "love" for it's purity form. Beautifully done!

At 2:10 this marvelous piece of music goes from merely gorgeous to ridiculously sublime.

The overture from the Broadway show album might be the finest piece of music in the history of the stage

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

11 ай бұрын

Interestingly, R&H were quoted as expressing they weren’t crazy about overtures due to the sometimes muffled sounds of musicians, both amateur or experienced, coming from the pit… mostly due to the noise and hustle of patrons attempting to find their seats…yet all their shows essentially had ambitious overtures…the opening in “Carousel” was instead an originally mimed prolog accompanied by the “Carousel Waltz” to introduce the characters and set-up situation to the story. The waltzes were reportedly conceived as a series of melodies for Paul Whiteman, but used in “Carousel” instead. The “overture” in this show became instead the music between acts ( the “Entr’acte” ) which has never been heard on professionally-made recordings, but a version of it can be found on “You Tube”. It contained most of the first act’s songs and was in the original 1945 production. Molnar’s play “Liliom”, incidentally, also opened with a brief prolog (but with some spoken or “barked” phrases accompanied by carnival music) which essentially also introduced the characters and initial story set-up.

Shirley Jones was Very beautiful !!!

@yaffayafo82

4 ай бұрын

Rapturously, causing her pretty girlfriend in these scenes, to seem plain.

Fantastic overture.

Of all the musicals she appeared in, Shirley Jones once said "Carousel" was the most beautiful.

@petershaw2566

4 жыл бұрын

It is my favourite musical but most of the cast have gone to a better place

@kevins.butler3402

4 жыл бұрын

Ms.Jones is right..it is "the most beautiful"movie musical.

@dovbarleib3256

3 жыл бұрын

Music Man had the best plot line and the best songs.

@secondsightcinema3957

3 жыл бұрын

@@dovbarleib3256 I LOVE Music Man, but Carousel breaks my heart bad every time, this waltz most of all, but the story and characters, too.

@kennethwayne6857

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevins.butler3402 Ms. Jones is partly responsible for that.

One if the greatest movie themes.

TUNNEL OF LOVE!!!

thanks for posting this opening scene from the movie. i've always liked it. has a magical quality to it. quite special.

A good film good tunes and singing and a lovely story

My favorite ride as a kid. Que tiempo tan FELIZ.

The only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical I ever saw on Broadway (2018 Revival) Beautiful score.

I love the waltz song of this movie and the movie i love the musical movies.

:') Man , i love these movie's. Best in the world

@madisonchapman9342

8 жыл бұрын

And the music

He’s absolutely BEAUTIFUL. as she realizes.

At one time the carousel was the most popular amusement park ride.

@derrickreeve3921

4 жыл бұрын

Certainly the most beautiful

When I was asked to name my top 5 waizes, this beat of Tchaikovsky X 5, Saint Saens and a host of othe classical composers. It is a magnificent piece of music

@wayneguiney3787

6 ай бұрын

I like this walze but it sounds very much like Emmanuel Chabrier's "Spanish Rhapsody" which might explain the cancan-like dansers in the left of the scene. Some of the best tunes in musicals come from classical composers. This adaption, however, isn't as blatant as Ennio Morricone pinching his "Cinema Paradiso" theme from Rachmaninof's "Symphony No.2." Musicals have many catchy tunes that were great to hum or whistle back when some people used to do that but they lack the profundity of the great classical composers.

Brilliant.

My favorite story about "Carousel" concerns Lili Darvas, the wife of Ferencz Molnar, who wrote "Liliom", the play on which "Carousel" was based. Lili was in New York in 1945, when the show premiered. Rodgers and Hammerstein thought it would be a gracious gesture to invite her to opening night. She accepted; and, after the curtain came down, they sought her out, to see what she thought. "I loved it", she said. "It's a wonderful show, and I'm sure it will be a great success. But I think it's a revealing look at the difference between the European and American temperaments. You ended your show with a song called "You'll Never Walk Alone." The message of Ferencz's play is that one ALWAYS walks alone."

@Questor-ky2fv

8 ай бұрын

Interesting comparison. Thanks for posting this anecdote!

@tadimaggio

8 ай бұрын

@Questor-ky2fv Thanks for your comment. I should have added that Lili Darvas was a splendid actress in her own right, and is familiar to all devotees of the original "Twilight Zone" series as "Grandma" in the episode "Long Distance Call", where she calls her young grandson (played by "Lost in Space" Billy Mumy) on his toy telephone after she dies. Darvas made an exquisite film called "Love" near the end of her life and career, where she played a bedridden woman in communist Hungary, whose daughter-in-law/caregiver spins an elaborate fiction for her about how her son has become a successful film director in Hollywood. He has, in fact, been arrested and imprisoned by the AVO (secret police) for his political activities; but his wife loves her mother-in-law, and wants to spare her the agony of uncertainty about his fate. (It's a modern-day retelling of the Biblical tale of Ruth and Naomi.) If you ever get the chance to see it, please do so; you'll never forget it.

I have a carousel horse music box that plays this. I've been trying to find out what song it plays for almost a year and I finally figured it out

Beautiful!!

Didn't Noel Coward say" He just pisses melody"? Excuse the crude language, but no-one can deny Richard Rodgers unsurpassed generosity with a fabulous tune. Thank you for posting this masterpiece.

@kennethwayne6857

2 жыл бұрын

From what I heard, Rodgers said that about himself. Hey, if I had that kind of talent, I'd blow my own horn too. Noel Coward could be quite crude, though.

Takes me away to a simpler time.....

@richardturner6981

6 жыл бұрын

Barry Schlesinger Me too

I finally found this! Thank you for uploading.

Superb character actress Audrey Christie, who plays the brash Mrs. Mullin, also played Natalie Wood's naive mother, in denial as Wood slips into full-blown hysteria, in Elia Kazan's "Splendor in the Grass."

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

5 жыл бұрын

Retro Dreams She could sing too, and she had a great number “At the Roxy Music Hall” in the original show of “I Married an Angel” by Rodgers and Hart. She acted in many films including “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”, “Mame” and others.

Beautiful movie, but I also find it very sad

Gorgeous

so so love this song

Masterwork. ❤

Meraviglioso!

*I was seriously waiting for the 'wackily' painted school bus to enter the scene and Laurie and Keith to step out to sing a 'groovy' ditty for everyone*

I have mixed feelings about this musical as a whole, but I cannot deny how enchanted this opening scene and the waltz make me feel :33

@WadeKingston

5 жыл бұрын

I agree that one could put this on and turn the screen to the wall--just listen to the amazing music. Except, of course, for the amazing dance accompanying "June is Bustin' Out All Over."

@heliotrope3345

Жыл бұрын

I agree, the music is beautiful but it's a very tragic, traumatizing tory! I saw it as a child and it really upset me! Another movie that really traumatized me as a child was Island of the Blue Dolphins. That film has scenes where dogs are killed and that horrified me. I was only about 8 when I saw that and I'm 65 now and never forgot it. And since that was way back in the early '60's, I've no doubt they really killed those dogs for the film which is soooo wrong. I took a film class and that still goes on today, especially if filmed in a foreign country. So much for traumatizing stories.

Powerful yet beautiful.

Going to see a live performance of Carousel tonight, performed by the Pensacola Opera,. Come on down!

getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I choose

Loaded with sexual tension, and yet, nothing going on. The art of the old time film maker.

Is so sweet how you literally see him fall in love with her from the moment he sees her

I've always had problems with the storyline, but if the music doesnt grip your heart, you should think about that perhaps.

@WadeKingston

5 жыл бұрын

The story-lines of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals weren't always that compelling, with perhaps "The King and I" and "The Sound of Music" being notable exceptions. But their music! Sublime in every way.

very nice tune. just heard it in the movie "Wall Street Money Never Sleeps"

R&H were a GREAT team! They brought us so many lovely tunes, and the wonderful movies and plays that went with them. The first time I remember my brain ever really registering this tune, it was playing in a department store, while I was shopping. I managed to get some badly needed clothes, including a knitted forest green sweater top. I hate shopping, but the lovely music that the store was playing, including this tune, made my shopping trip more bearable. I'm not sure, but I think that I may have seen the movie not too long before my shopping trip, which would explain my strong positive reaction to it in the store. I must have watched it with my mother. She loved old movies like this. She hated sci fi movies though, but was a good sport for one of my younger brother's birthdays. She took us to see Star Wars. I had seen it once before on my own, but liked it enough to watch it again. Don't worry, I didn't ruin it for the rest of the audience. Most modern movies are lousy. I definitely watch more old ones than new ones. While I prefer action adventures of all kinds, I do also enjoy old comedies and old musicals. The Carousel Waltz was a good movie. I once saw Shirley Jones in a movie called Marty, with Ernest Borganine. I didn't really care for the movie, but I watched the whole thing because I liked the two leads, and they did do a good job in the movie. Thanks for posting this!

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

3 ай бұрын

It was actually Betsy Blair with Ernest Borgnine in “Marty” for which he received the Oscar. But you’re right-there’s something similar about Blair to Jones type-wise, although they intentionally played down Blair’s looks as she was supposed to be playing no more than a plain-looking shy woman in “Marty”. In real life she was married to Gene Kelly.

Ok i talk a month ago now a month later also love the song never walk along on this movie my favorite one plus mary poppins and king and i just to name a few

Takes me to Hull Fair

As Seen on Family Classics with Dean Richards

Great that this has finally been posted. Conducted by Alfred Newman and arranged by Edward Powell.Brief version; the prologue in the original stage show is about 8 mins including Billy's flirtation with a sailor's girl, rivalry against Beauties of Europe attraction's barker, encounters with mill owner Bascombe and other bits of business. Production stills from Fox suggest evidence that this was originally intended to be longer in the film, and various celebrity fairground performers also appeared, but now just in the background.For a fuller acct of Billy's prowess as a barker, one should also see two film versions of Liliom(1930&1934) and the tv production of Carousel (1967). Hugh Jackman is still considering filming remake w. Anne Hathaway.

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

11 ай бұрын

The film remake has apparently since been shelved, but curiously Jackman has performed as Billy with Audra Mc Donald as Julie in a concert version at Carnegie Hall, and of course was Barnum in the film “The Greatest Showman”, and even more recently has been performing with Sutton Foster in a revival of “The Music Man”, all of which have involved swaggering “carny” or “pitchman” types of roles. Hathaway appeared years ago also as Lili in the Encore staging of “Carnival”, so we could get a pretty clear idea that she would have made quite an impression with the challenging role of Julie in “Carousel”.

So THAT's where the intro to that Dire Straits tune came from!

0:57 Oh look, it's the thumbnail!

Man you just use this for a opening for a song over Love.

Someone know some link where watch the movie??? Pls. Ty

Miss Mullins as frowsy and mean as she was, was having Billy, you fool, and it was about to stop. But at least she came to say goodbye at his pointless death, a deep flaw in this overly sentimental musical, with one of the greatest scores, ever.

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

2 жыл бұрын

In both “Liliom” and “Carousel” the widowed carousel owner is not only infatuated and supposedly involved physically with him, but tries to fix his hair by pushing it back, which of course frustrates our antihero who essentially does as he pleases. At his death she pushes his hair back, but this on stage and on film is followed by Julie gently and tenderly pulling the stray lock again down on his forehead. Julie understood and respected the ways of the young rebel, in her love for him.🎠🎪

Hairs on the back of the neck.

It's an Allan Herschell carousel.

the baskets

The likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Henry King (director), Edward Powell's orchestration of Carousel Waltz (along with other orchestrators for the film) and the great maestro Alfred Newman, conductor of the finest studio orchestra in the world at that time, gave us a timeless masterpiece. What a legacy they have left us. I'm a massive Sinatra fan but in all honesty, MacRae's stature and gloriously booming operatic voice is way more suited to Jones' soprano than Sinatra the crooner. Originally chosen for the part, Sinatra walked off the set on the first day over a dispute supposedly about workload. Shirley Jones describes a panicked production team in tears asking her if she knows how to contact Gordon MacCrae. She indeed did and the rest is history. The most memorable scene for me still is for the song, If I Loved You, probably my favourite song of all time, where the principals sing their hearts out to one another. The combination of Oscar's genius lyrics, the achingly beautiful Rodgers melody and a sensational orchestration (Edward Powell again) that bursts with emotion, is impossible to watch after all these decades without tears. Carousel was Richard Rodgers favourite musical. Mine too.

@adriannalypeckyj2513

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Gordon MacRae was perfect in this role. His voice blended beautifully with Shirley Jones. Ms. Jones even mentioned in an interview that she was so very happy to have worked with him on the film and that his voice was more fitting for the part of Billie. What talented performers with such magnificent singing voices.

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

Жыл бұрын

Gordon MacRae was wonderful in “Carousel” and in this scene as well as “Soliloquy” we get to see him fully expressing his character’s happiest moments, both through emotional acting and with that beautiful voice. One time I met screenwriter Henry Ephron (Nora’s father) who with his wife Phoebe had done the script for the film. He said Sinatra was indeed a legend and a talent but had given them a little bit of a hard time during the initial filming. The theory is he didn’t want to do double takes of each scene (as had been done with “Oklahoma!”), but ironically it turns out that most cinemas were not equipped for widescreen 55mm and a lab was able to come up with the usual 35mm prints, so it wasn’t necessary to film each take twice…but by the time that was realized, Sinatra was already off the filming. His spouse at the time was Ava Gardner, who requested that he should be available nearby while she worked on her own film appearances, so this may have been another reason for Sinatra leaving, according to Shirley Jones. In any event, Sinatra would go on later in 1957 to play a similar swaggering anti-hero as the lead in “Pal Joey”(1957), as a singer caught in a love triangle while attempting to further his singing career and open his own club. In the original 1940 Rodgers & Hart show Joey was a dancer and was played by Gene Kelly. The irony is that according to a New Yorker review of the 1993 revival of “Carousel” Gene Kelly may have also been considered for the lead in the original “Carousel”(1945). John Raitt had already been on tour in “Oklahoma!” so the vocally demanding role of Billy was chosen by Rodgers and Hammerstein for him. He would reprise the role twenty years later in a Lincoln Center revival.

I wonder if Melanie Martinez was inspired by this scene in this movie for her carousel song and music video omg 😊

Came here because of direstraits

Does Rod Stieger also appear in this movie?

@kevinbutler1955NYC

3 жыл бұрын

No..Rod Steiger never appeared in"Carousel"..he only appeared in the movie version of"Oklahoma"..Iggy.

M*A*S*H sent me here

Alan-Herschell carousel.

@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749

4 жыл бұрын

Gail Lofdahl It was supposedly referred to as “Murphy’s Carousel” and some of the carvings may have been Herschell as you said, but some horses look like the country-fair elongated style of Parker, which is a strong possibility. I wish the scene had been slightly longer as was originally intended ( see my other comments posted). Reportedly the cast ensemble rode the carousel so often during production it had to be mechanically fixed!

An absolutely great opening. On stage, it is good but not like the movie that sets up the whole show. Much of the movie was shot in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. This looks like it may have been shot on a sound stage. Frank Sinatra left at the first rehearsal; good, I cannot see him as Billy Bigalo.

فيلم ابن حميدو

ابن حميدو 😂😂

I can see Erwin Schrott playing Billy in Carousel.

@kennethwayne6857

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, he'd probably play it very well. Many operatic baritones have done the role. Young Bernd Weikl sang it in German.

Although the music isn’t the best the storyline has always been my favorite!

@auspicious93

6 жыл бұрын

Lol, I think most people feel the opposite

@oneway5527

6 жыл бұрын

99miyah the ending always always makes me cry

@tuxtommy69

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, BOTH Rodgers & Hammerstein felt that "Carousel" was their best collaborative score.

@oneway5527

6 жыл бұрын

Tom S. Did not know that. Thanks for the info!

Frank could not have done it.

sinatra would have ruinedb lthe movie

And sexual tensions

Disgracefully bad movie version of the perhaps greatest musical of the 20th Century. In Nicholas Hynter's interview (he directed the 1992 National Theatre revival of Carousel, and helmed its transfer to Lincoln Center, where it played for two years) he referred to this movie as a "travesty." You can't blame Fox, I suppose - it was the generally bland and unchallenging ethos of the 1950s that had to translate a dark story of redemption and make it palatable for an audience weaned on censorship, bad tv, and eager to separate itself from the horrors of WW II, Korea, and the realities of life. The 1950s in America was, after all, all about keeping reality at bay.....

Not my favorite. Never was. For the ending

Incredible.