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Jeebo

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4. My two favorite Hollywood musicals ...

Reply to Roy Rolling (Original post)

Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:44 AM

Aug 24

... are My Fair Lady (which won Best Picture of 1964) and The Wizard of Oz. In fact, The Wizard of Oz is the first movie I ever remember watching. I watched it on CBS one Sunday afternoon in summer 1955 after church in Warner Robins, Georgia, and wow, did that movie ever have a profound effect on the five-year-old me. We had just gotten our first television set, a wooden console, a piece of furniture, with the picture made up of horizontal lines so fat you could see them halfway across the living room. Such was video technology 70 years ago. It's still one of my favorite movies ever, but of course as a senior citizen I appreciate it on a much different level now. It's still a classic.

— Ron

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My Favorite Musical [View all] Roy Rolling Aug 24 OP

I agree best music written for a movie. I really like "if I only had a brain." Walleye Aug 24 #1

Yes, "Rainbow" is divinely inspired Roy Rolling Aug 24 #2

Just looked him up. I wasn't aware he wrote "stormy weather" what a song. Walleye Aug 24 #3

My two favorite Hollywood musicals ... Jeebo Aug 24 #4