Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Good morning, good morning . . . It's great to stay up late.

We talked the whole night through.
Good morning, good morning, to you.

They say that this song-n-dance number was quite a challenge for Debbie Reynolds in "Singin in the Rain." She was cast for that movie after winning the "Miss Burbank" beauty pageant at the age of 19, and she'd never, ever performed professionally. What amateur tap dancer could even think of keeping up with Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor? And then there were somersaults, jumps straight up from the floor onto the bar, and of course the singing. In a classic case of life imitating "art," the high notes in her singing had to be dubbed. Also, she burst a blood vessel in her foot. But the show went on.

.....Now the milkman's on his way

It's too late to say "Good Night."
Good morning, good morning to you.


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