When I was in 6th grade in 2014-2015, our middle school did this play. I was backstage crew. We watched both this and the movie from 2005, but we watched this one first. I’m so glad I get to see it again!
God Bless the person who posted this, I haven't seen it since it was on TV in '64, I was 5, but have never forgotten it. God Bless Carol Burnett, America's National Treasure.
Just watched the Disney version in which Carol Burnett plays the queen instead of the princess last night. I much prefer this version. Thank you for making it available!
Thank you for uploading this! I was just thinking of all the overdone fairytales, and remembered this as the stellar exception. I was 7 when I saw it, and the humor and pacing were wonderful.
I just read in the book SHY by Mary Redgers daughter of Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame and co-creator of Mattress, the shocking information that actress Jane White (The Queen), an Afro-American and daughter of a longtime nat´l secretary of the NAACP, was only given the part she nailed so awesomely here because she agreed to use white-face. This was the director´s inflexible demand whem the original show opened on B´way in 1959. Thank goodness those dreadful days are behind us!
I appreciate some of your history provided, but continuity was actually considered more valuable than individual vanities and egos in the past. They wanted people to look alike, as casters would look for people who looked related if they were suppose to be blood relatives. If she was cast as the princess, they would have let her go with only the regular garish stage make up of her choice in the past. I have seen plenty of videos of black men in the black and white films, the fabulous dancers who did splits sliding down stairs for instance. Modern ignorance is the major primary cause of modern disgust at the past. Sorry.
Cast: Carol Burnett Jane White Jack Gilford Joseph Bova Elliott Gould Shani Wallis Bill Hayes Jack Fletcher Kellie Brytt Donna Monroe Marian Haraldson Corinna Manetto Michael Bennett
Wow that woman Jane White who played the Queen had a ton of lines to deliver and she nailed it! She was absolutely fantastic. And I got to looking her up and your can’t quite tell here in this old black n white film but she’s a black woman. Fantastic! And I suppose this is Carol before she eventually had her chin done-it’s not so bad at all though. Wow all these ppl,what lives they led. The stories they could tell I bet!
Hi @Theatre studies, thank you so much for sharing, because I had never seen "Once Upon a Mattress" with Carol Burnett. I wanted to ask you if you please can upload a better version from a qualitative point of view. When you can, let me know. Have a great Week! :)
Happy Birthday Ms. Burnett, 90 yesterday. My Mom saw this show and kept the Playbill
When I was in 6th grade in 2014-2015, our middle school did this play. I was backstage crew. We watched both this and the movie from 2005, but we watched this one first. I’m so glad I get to see it again!
I have always wanted to see this version ever since I was in my high school production of this, 40 years ago. Thank you for sharing!
God Bless the person who posted this, I haven't seen it since it was on TV in '64, I was 5, but have never forgotten it. God Bless Carol Burnett, America's National Treasure.
Just watched the Disney version in which Carol Burnett plays the queen instead of the princess last night. I much prefer this version. Thank you for making it available!
I have looked for this many years! Thank you for posting it. I remember watching it when it aired and i loved it. I was 13.
Thank you for posting this. Carol Burnett is amazing.
Carol Burnett is WONDERFUL! And Elliott Gould is surprisingly good, too!
Carol Burnett is amazing
Thank you for uploading this! I was just thinking of all the overdone fairytales, and remembered this as the stellar exception. I was 7 when I saw it, and the humor and pacing were wonderful.
I love that this is available! Thank you for posting.
she is Actually Perfect
Wonderful!
🎉90th💜 -👂
This is when Broadway singers had voices they could project over the footlights without amplification!
Most of them still do; you’re just convinced everything in the past is better. It’s ok. Many bitter people do that.
I just read in the book SHY by Mary Redgers daughter of Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame and co-creator of Mattress, the shocking information that actress Jane White (The Queen), an Afro-American and daughter of a longtime nat´l secretary of the NAACP, was only given the part she nailed so awesomely here because she agreed to use white-face. This was the director´s inflexible demand whem the original show opened on B´way in 1959. Thank goodness those dreadful days are behind us!
I appreciate some of your history provided, but continuity was actually considered more valuable than individual vanities and egos in the past. They wanted people to look alike, as casters would look for people who looked related if they were suppose to be blood relatives. If she was cast as the princess, they would have let her go with only the regular garish stage make up of her choice in the past. I have seen plenty of videos of black men in the black and white films, the fabulous dancers who did splits sliding down stairs for instance. Modern ignorance is the major primary cause of modern disgust at the past. Sorry.
@@Skitdora2010That's not what Ms White says, but of course, YOU know better than her lol
Cast: Carol Burnett Jane White Jack Gilford Joseph Bova Elliott Gould Shani Wallis Bill Hayes Jack Fletcher Kellie Brytt Donna Monroe Marian Haraldson Corinna Manetto Michael Bennett
Wow that woman Jane White who played the Queen had a ton of lines to deliver and she nailed it! She was absolutely fantastic. And I got to looking her up and your can’t quite tell here in this old black n white film but she’s a black woman. Fantastic! And I suppose this is Carol before she eventually had her chin done-it’s not so bad at all though. Wow all these ppl,what lives they led. The stories they could tell I bet!
Hi @Theatre studies, thank you so much for sharing, because I had never seen "Once Upon a Mattress" with Carol Burnett. I wanted to ask you if you please can upload a better version from a qualitative point of view. When you can, let me know. Have a great Week! :)