''Life Upon The Wicked Stage'' -Till The Clouds Roll By | Virginia O'Brien (HD Print)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Film: Till The Clouds Roll By, 1946
"Show Boat"
Broadway Premiere Sequence:
Life Upon The Wicked Stage
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by Virginia O'Brien and Women's Chorus
Starring: June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Cameo Appearance: Lena Horne, Kathryn Grayson, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O'Brien, Cyd Charisse, Gower Champion and a very young Frank Sinatra
My Mom used to sing this around the house when I was young. She passed away in 2014, but know she's around me because this song just popped into my head! She loved musicals and had an amazing voice. I love the line 'I've got talented, but it ain't been tested...No one's even interested' (too funny!) Thank you for keeping these great films clips, singers and actors alive for us. We live in such a different time now. Going retro is a good stress reliver!
@marcellasterling Your comment really hit home with me. I grew up watching classic movies with my mom. She died two years ago and boy, do I miss her. Watching clips like this brings her sense of fun and humour back to me, if only for a moment. Thank you for sharing your memories of your mom.
I love the fact that she doesn't have that traditional high pitched singing voice. She is really embracing her Alto tone. 👌❤👌❤
The song is for a classic belter. Listen to Marge Champion sing it. It's not written for a lyric soprano. And yes, Virginia O'Brien was the best of the best.
Just curious, why is this specifically for an alto?
yea, i useed to laugh when miss america talent part and all the "ahhhhhh" high pitched singing, meaning they couldn't sing really
She should have played the role in the '51 movie (although dark haired like Kathryn Grayson, it would have worked) I would have rather seen her in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN than Betty Hutton---sorry, Betty. Check out Virginia's song SALOME, really fun.
@@arandomcomment1092 generally in earlier incarmations of stage musicals, the leading lady is a soprano, the second lead is an alto or contralto.
Oscar Hammerstein II -- a real interesting production about the real life of only one who was "Venus". Remember the nose? And she begins with blowing her nose. Why? Because the only one who was "Venus" had an exceptionally long nose. You know, we've had extinctions of the human race. Lost stories. She really did exist. Black curly hair, yes. And life here for her, as for her spirit (which still lives) was glorious. But life here ... (Song). Anyway ... very perfect channeled art, imo. Oscar Hammerstein II.
Virginia was the best tongue-in-cheek singer....she was the best!
Yes, she was also in 1946's THE HARVEY GIRLS with Judy Garland and Ray Bolger.
@@detectivefiction3701 “I was hopin to be ropin something wild in the wild, wild West.”
I stumbled upon this clip by accident . Never heard of Virginia O'Brien . You could see the girl has talent . Now i see on the right there are other clips of her . That's why youtube is so wonderful, brings so many talented people to see which we would never have heard about, especially not from today's tv and radio, which is so narrow in it's broadcasting .
Me2 always like to watch old clips old movies, espcially in this era. Nice fashion, nice choreography and songs.
Look up Say We're Sweethearts Again
For some reason, I used to be obsessed with this song as a kid. lol
I was watching tiny Anna Kendrick doing this song and I just had to see the original
This isn't the original but it is truly great. Virginia O'Brien was superb
Me, too !
Virginia O’Brien was mighty busy in 1946! Not only did she do “Till the Clouds Roll By” but “The Show-Off” with Red Skeleton,
The Harvey Girls (my personal favorite) with Judy Garland and Ray Bolger (The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz) she had that same wonderful husky voice when she was singing to Ray. Ms O’Brien was also in the Ziegfeld Follies the same year.
Jane Doe
Thank you lovely.
Her voice has captured me.
I am your Forever Friend for knowing more than myself about her.
Virginia disappeared from the Harvey Girls movie because her pregnancy was too far along. They could disguise it earlier in the movie.
Can you Imagine the rehearsals it took to do this minor scene.
and this movie is a continuous beeping of that scene to scene amazing EXCELLENCE
Love this number! Virginia O'Brien was a wonderful, welcome addition to many a MGM musical! Thanks for posting.
This is so catchy
This number is from the 'Show Boat' excerpt which leads into a long flashback of its composer, Jerome Kern, reminiscing about his (largely fictitious) early struggles.
Virginia was eighth billed. The picture was like a jukebox musical crammed with Kern's hits, and her number was curtailed. She is more animated than usual. It was strange how MGM kept giving her the part of a girl who cannot catch or keep a man. Perhaps the bosses thought a funny lady with a fairly deep voice could not be lucky in love.
Very good description of how L.B. Mayer treated her, yet she was beautiful.
This is the sharpest clip of anything I've ever seen from When the Clouds Roll By. Thank You.
Was looking for precisely this clip. Yes, it's been shortened - "Til the Clouds Roll By" was a compilation film with a lot of songs crammed in. O'Brien was both comic and sexy and a good singer, which meant - believe it or not - that she got roles like this one, a woman who can't land a man when she want s one. (Yeah, right.) She never did get a leading role. Great pacing, timed to fit the antics of the choreography -- I don't know where else we watch a line of dancers FAINT to the beat?
Little Anna Kendrick did this on Broadway. It was adorable :)
At Her most beautiful, and this song was surely written for her. Thank you Virgina
It certainly was not. Show Boat was written in 1927!
Virginia O'Brien was the definitive female performer of the 1940's.
I watched it yesterday on TCM 😃 she was great!! i love her 💋 👏👏👏❤❤❤
If some gentleman would talk with reason
I would cancel all next season.
Life upon the wicked stage
Ain't nothin' for a girl!
Came here after watching Marvelous Mrs maisel 😮
Actually, she sang more of the number, but they cut it while filming it or afterwards. She sings the lyric on the soundtrack recording "I admit it's fun to smear my face with paint..." I wish it were longer!
one of the many many many many beautiful musicals with beautiful and very lovely actresses such as miss Virginia o, Brien very lovely in her out fit here along with the many others I n this wonderful gem of a musical masterpiece but again very very nice and beauuuuuuutiful yes indeedy peace everybody😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
Fantastic
I'm in love.
Man she was hot. Pretty, talented, funny. A real triple threat.
If you can't enjoy Virginia O'Brien you don't deserve a good time.
me can very much
Thanks!
Love this song! The cynicism just drips from it, and her presentation is perfect.
Maxwellgm2020, the film to which you are referring is Showboat , the 1951 version starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, AVA GARDNER, Marge and Gower Champion, Joe E. Brown, Agnes Moorehead. You will find Marge and Gower doing Life Upon the Wicked Stage.
I saw little Anna Kendrick's video singing the same song! She was in broadway lol
Anna Kendrick brought me here!!!💖🎶
Some of them remind me of Judy Garland
Why is there no video clip of her singing her most charmingly alluring song "Wild, wild west" from Harvey Girls?
I'd like "It's a Great Big World."
I like these two numbers too and actually I've seen people posting "wild wild west" but it doesn't last much because they take it down unfortunately.
Here's an MGM movie I've never seen. But I think Virginia O'Brien's version of this song is my favorite, next to Fay De Witt's.
What musical is life upon the wicked stage from?
Is this song in public domain? I need it for a play I am writing, if it is, could someone please get me an instrumental version that could be used as an overture?
It's from the musical "Show Boat," which is still under copyright.
"The Dating Game" ca. 2022 colorized
I loved Virginia O'Brien, especially in The Harvey Girls, but my favorite rendition of this song is Anna Kendrick and the Kit Kat Girls ruclips.net/video/8LJ8jrj2FVc/видео.html.