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Miss Gertrude Lawrence (1931)
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2024
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Full titles read: "And now Pathetone presents another "Star" Artiste - MISS GERTRUDE LAWRENCE - in "You're my decline and fall."
Miss Lawrence introduces the piece and say that for the "first talking picture I have ever made in England I have chosen to sing a song by a British Composer Mr George Posford who will play it for me at the piano."
Several shots of Miss Lawrence standing next to Mr Posford at the piano, singing 'You're my decline and fall."
FILM ID:1042.15
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What an absolute shame it is that we do not have more of the great Gertrude Lawrence on film. This performance is charming - but imagine if she had gone on an early television show and sung THE SAGA OF JENNY!
That would have been such a dream!
Thanks so much for posting this. It is the clearest film we have of this star who enchanted her era.
Truly a wonderful discovery, this one.
🎹 Oh, how I would love to see a video of Gertrude Lawrence performing Hello Young Lovers or Getting To Know You from The King And I. 🎹
The quintessential musical stage performer. Like many greats of musical theater, she simply does not translate fully on the screen or records. People do not pay top dollar to hear a great voice in a Broadway musical. That's what concerts and opera are for. They come to to fall in love with a bigger than life personality, and a character. That was true with Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Carol Channing Elaine Stritch and Gertrude To really appreciate Lawerence and what she could do to mezmerize a live audience, you had to be be in that audience.
Interesting points. None of the ladies you mention had great voices at all. Personally, I prefer listening to a "great" voice. There are and were theater artists who sing well.
@@verak66 Absolutely true. I don't mean to overstate my case. Martin and Merman were lounge singers before they reached Broadway, and Carol and Elaine started out in revues, and comedies. None of them had well trained classic voices like Barbara Cook, Julie Andrews , Kristen Chenowith and Shirley Jones who definitely exploited their soprano instruments ( among their many gifts) to get good roles. My ;oint is just wasn't all that high on the list of priorities for many musical directors. Comedic chops and that presence on the stage often mattered more.
@@BTURNER1961 You're right. And quite honestly, Carol Channing couldn't sing at all. It was more like a squawk, sorry. And Elaine Stritch just shout sang. I don't like Mary Martin or Gertrude Lawrence at all. At least, Ethel Merman had a voice in her prime. A strong belt. I can listen to her but the others? I just can't. (I'm a singer...)
@@verak66 You may be right, but unless you have seen them perform on stage, you can't be too certain, that the same magic, the stage presence that brought the houses down, brought those rave reviews , filled those theaters, and won those tony awards, would not absolutely delight and entrall you too. They are singing those songs in character, and those characters were acting and comedic triumphs.
So little film of her. Wish I could 'like' this more than just once
Great. A lovely relaxed song, sung in the same style.
This was my step grandmother. I’m the daughter of Elizabeth Emma boyd and my grandfather Richard Aldrich was Gertrude Lawrence previous husband before she died. I’m just learning now about my family history and who Gertrude really was. Is there a way for me to watch “star!”? It’s a movie about her and my grandfather. Or information about her would be appreciated. My mom was humble about her upbringing and I had no idea about the impact she had. I was a ballet dancer all throughout my life and never understood why I was the only one in my family who danced but now I feel I have more answers.
Please, read Gertrude Lawrence’s autobiography A STAR DANCED and Richard Aldrich’s biography, GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AS MRS. A. There is also plenty of info available about her participation in CHARLOT’S REVUE, OH KAY, PRIVATE LIVES, LADY IN THE DARK, PYGMALION, THE KING AND I, her sojourn to Hollywood for THE GLASS MENAGERIE and turning ALL ABOUT EVE and many other ventures.
If your father was Richard Aldrich Jr., he was well mentioned in GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AS MRS. A and should have fond memories of Miss Lawrence for the 12 years she was his stepmother before dying in 1952. There was no bitterness between your paternal grandmother and Miss Lawrence since the marriage with Richard Aldrich Sr. was long over when he remarried for the second (of three) time.
It seems very unusual that someone in the performing arts would have access to so much personal history and know nothing of your father’s stepmother. I hope you managed your career much better.
This is Diane on my husband's youtube account. I've studied Gertrude Lawrence for many years and have visited many places connected to her, in London, NYC, and Dennis, MA. I'd love to get in touch to discuss her and compare notes. If you are still interested, let me know how to reach you! I became interested in her through the film Star, and reading your grandfather's biography of her. I'm on FaceBook but I don't want to put my email on here!
Gertrude Lawrence did not have a great voice nor could be classified as a beauty. But she had talent in spades and that indefinable ability to charm, to be ultimately believable in whatever she played. The audiences loved her. When she died The lights of Broadway theatres were,for the first time ever, dimmed in tribute.
Agreed, a serviceable, but not a great voice - however, her 'invisible' breathing is amazing as is her charisma.
Very far from a "great" voice indeed and no beauty at all, by any stretch. The "charm" eludes me here. Perhaps it was best seen in the theater. I've seen several of her films and they are embarrassing. Couldn't seem to adjust to the more intimate medium of the movies - way over the top. Watch Mimi (1935) and The Glass Menagerie (1950) and see for yourself.
Agree with verak66 about her screen acting. She chews up the scenery in Glass Menagerie, to no satisfying dramatic effect. Compare her scenes with the intimate, naturalistic scenes between Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas: it's as though you were watching 2 different movies from 2 different film eras. She does not benefit from the comparison.
She sings perfectly in tune here--unlike so many of her later performances in America (even on the original cast album of "The King and I", despite editing and retakes). The lyrics are hard to understand. Glamorous looking she was not--the Broadway producer Morton Gottlieb, who worked with her early in his career, actually said she was ugly--but a fabulous talent nonetheless. A unique performer, too little film documentation of her survives. It's great to have this video available.
Whatever her looks, she was known for her elegance. She was occasionally photographed as a model in Vogue around 1930. She had the exact sort of figure for the era.
pianoredux: There are very true beautiful people in this world. Rather the impression of glamour and beauty radiates from within. There are many photos of Lawrence looking very elegant and beautiful so to hell with you and the producer. No, she didn’t h as be a large voice and it could be tremulous and sometimes flat but THE KING and I Score was written high so she would have to work to stay in tune and avoid a tendency to sing flat. During her time in the show, she worked with a vocal coach. In the winter of 1952 she was sometimes hooded but a complete physical found nothing wrong. She was in the show until three weeks before her death from liver and stomach cancer. She was also a serious contender for the role of Margo Channing in ALL ABOUT EVE and appeared as Amanda Wingfield in the film version of THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
@@johnpickford4222 You seem to have taken my siding with a quote of Morton Gottlieb, who knew her backstage as well as onstage, as a personal affront, despite the fact that I sung hosannas to Lawrence everywhere in my comment. I should point out that in the film version of The Glass Menagerie, while Lawrence's performance is an unheralded marvel, she drifts in and out of a Southern accent throughout the picture, despite the readily available fix of retakes and post-production editing, suggesting that she was so difficult that the creative team couldn't even construct a plausible continuity of takes of her in a southern accent. This inconsistency is of a piece with her problems singing in tune in later life, and suggests some emerging psychological issues in Lawrence. I agree that she would have been marvelous as Margo Channing, and altogether different from Bette Davis.
@@pianoredux7516 Gert had a "presence." I guess. Your comment is AOK. Mary Pickford is having a bad hair day.
Gertie doesnt sing. She "warbles." Any true talent or charm is flattened by film. So her "star" power remains a mystery.
You obviously have no idea....
@@derekc4503 Too often those with no idea who think they know better than everyone else.
@@markandresen1 ....hahaha - too true!
Great discovery.....She couldnt sing at all...her "effect" is fascinating.