Lol love it! Also Lauren Bacall’s speaking voice is outstanding - such class

@cathydrumobich9045

2 жыл бұрын

She sounds like -- and looks like -- a man in drag.

What a blazing talent! Love you forever Gwen.

I saw SWEET CHARITY in person and she was even more spectacular then.

@jewelscash8752

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing-just enjoying the Fosse/Verdon bio extravaganza via HULU. I saw much of Fosse back in the day-so lucky!

This woman was a National Treasure, gone too soon. Thanks, Gwen!

With or without scenery, Verdon performs this number always beautifully and exuberantly!

That "star quality" . . . the singing, dancing, acting and looks are just a bonus.

Gwen was an Amazing Talent. RIP

Oh how I love Gwen Verdon. And I love the movie version of "Sweet Charity" with Shirley MacLaine! Thank you for posting this fantastic performance by Gwen Verdon!

that's how it's done, folks.

@FridaM100

5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed.

What a great performer and wonderful muse for Fosse over the years it is great we have a record of these performances!

Beautiful and great!....

Love Verdon...👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thank god there is film footage of a gem such as this! Brava Ms. Verdon!

@marydalton8083

Жыл бұрын

By the way, thanks for using the correct form of the word (brava).

One of a kind. Class act

She was always so very exceptional.

Gods of broadway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!was an honor to see them live

Fantastic!! I was born too late to see Gwen in person, but thank goodness for these clips!!

Oh how I miss the class of the theater in years ago,,,,,stellar entertainement

Oh my God, I love her to death. Wish I could have seen her. Very special person and performer.

Nobody did it as good. Many did it well but she is the standard.

Love her routine & her voice! Perfect! Thanks! Loved this!

She is the Best of The Best!

Wonderful thank you for putting this on you tube

Thats one of my favorites

OMG I love her!!!!!!

Luvvvvv Sweet Charity...I saw it w. Debbie Allen. She was phenomenal 👍👍👍

@garrygivens1680

4 жыл бұрын

Not taking anything away from Gwen Verdon because I know that she was fantastic when she did it on Broadway but, Debbie Allen absolutely killed this number in the clip from the 1997 revival of Sweet Charity.

I met her, she was absolutely lovely!

pure talent

She's 58 here!!!!!!!!

Standing room only at a matinee, wonderful.

Perfection. Take Notes

Thanks also for the link to The Girl After My Heart to see Gwen at 16 doing ballet! Wonderful!

@barbarellagb As someone who wants to ramble on and on about how part of Ms. Verdon’s genius is making the viewer the tiniest bit nervous that maybe she’s forgotten her line or her hat may fall off or she’s about to get a step off (all of which are absolutely absurd she knows exactly what she’s doing down to the millisecond) and how she’s so believable as Charity you’d be quick to assume that that is pretty much the character she can do and not much else along the lines of the wonderful Georgia Engel or the terrific Judy Holliday. But go watch Damn Yankees “Hello Joe!” or even later in the movie Cocoon and you’ll find completely different characters she’s brought to life. Great singer, amazing actress, a dancer who was so good when you watched her she made you think “ I could do that” it looked so easy. She moved like butter melts over warm toast. She was so good that they would have to go and get her during a costume change to come back and take a second bow because the audience wouldn’t let the show go on until she did after her number in Can Can on Broadway. Now you tell me of anyone else you’ve ever heard of that happening for and HERES WHAT I RESPECT AND WHAT BLOWS ME AWAY THE MOST all this wrapped inside a kind person. A nice person who didn’t make demands and didn’t throw diva fits but could out perform them all. So my point is @barbarellobg that your comment is genius in its simplicity as it says everything I just did but in only 5 words and is as elegant yet as playful as Ms. Verdon herself. Brava!

@ginnylorenz5265

5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful tribute!!!!!

@ginnylorenz5265

5 жыл бұрын

And Gwen was magical!!!!!

@kathykelley16

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your incredible praise for Gwen. Thank you!

@fearandloathing75

4 жыл бұрын

You said it. Like butta she is.

Broadway..? in the 1960's - 70's.? Can modern day stage shows Compete.?? Naahhhh! The world will never see another Bob Fosse, or the exuberance of Gwen Verdon.

Gwen at 58....

It's not really a shocking thing to comment anymore but remember shes doing this in HEELS as with most of her work and I'm over hear collapsing down the stairs over air.

How many stars could pull this off now a days??? bet NONE!!!

thnx for the link - wonderful to see Gwen’s earliest work on film 😃🤗

Magic with a top hat and cane.

WOW!!!!!

Its New York. Great voices, great actors and great dancers all trained by the 'best' are as commonplace as sidewalks. That stuff just did not cut it to hold a job on Broadway. You can't replace a Merman, a Mostel, a Channing, a Preston or a Verdon with talent and craft. You have to provide a paying New Yorker with something much more rare - an original!

yes 😍😍

What a atar!!!!

This is what you call a star-actress. You can see what Shirley Maclaine was up against in the movie. I prefer her.

@usmale4915

3 жыл бұрын

Actually Gwen Verdon was on the set and helped Shirley MacLaine heaps. They are both great "troopers"!

And here's the same number (somewhat longer version) back in 1967: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eX5_tJV8p6W2orQ.html

Actually I was there at one of the first performances. And it was at this performance that I fell down 8 flights of stairs. I thought when I got to the bottom I would either be paralyzed for life (I was in my late teens or early twenties) or I`d be dead. Miraculously I survived but I still wonder wth pushed me down the stairs??? Amazing performance amazing.Verdon who started out as a chubby plain assistant choreographer to Jack Cole coached Marilyn Monroe for most of her roles. When it came time to cast `Damn Yankees` Marilyn insisted that Verdon play voice or in this case dance to her again (in the background_ But Fate took a turn and Gwen got the role. Marilyn was out.

ジュディ・ガーランドに♪“虹の彼方に”が、ライザ･ミネリに♪“キャバレー”があるようにグウェン・バードンを体現しているのはやっぱこの曲だな。

@Stan7855

4 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking!

Electric! The spirit and ability comes through almost forty years and some really bad quality film! (and I wish I could talk like Lauren Bacall)

@kennethwayne6857

3 жыл бұрын

You could start chain-smoking (kidding).

Knock knock who’s there? Orange...orange you glad I didn’t say banana.

Why did she not get the movie...

@kidlitfanful

4 жыл бұрын

Shirley MacLaine was getting famous and Fosse couldn't have gotten the movie made without a "name." Gwen Verdon had played Lola in the movie version of Damn Yankees over 10 years before, but other than that hasn't even played named characters in movies. Also, she was ten years older than Shirley MacLaine, and it's easier for someone in her 30's to pass for naive than someone in her 40's, especially on the big screen. I adore Gwen Verdon, and hate that she couldn't do the movie, but there are reasons.

@kennethwayne6857

3 жыл бұрын

@@kidlitfanful I thought it might have had something to do with their divorce (I know they worked together again afterwards). One story I heard that makes me quite upset is that during the making of the film 'Damn Yankees' Stanley Donen would remark within Gwen's earshot about how 'ugly' she was. Now I'm an admirer of Donen but if I had been there I would have hit him (assuming the story is true). At any rate, I don't think she made another film until 'Cocoon' in '85.

@katynstevensmom

3 жыл бұрын

@@kennethwayne6857 they were never divorced, just separated.

ummmm...they made a show about her...must have needed her to draw exposition for the fosse story

I wouldnt had paid .88 cents