Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueFifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.
- Prix
- 1 victoire et 3 nominations au total
- Heavenly Friend
- (as William Le Massena)
- Louise's 'Starlight Carnival' Dancing Partner
- (as Jacques D'Amboise)
- Graduation Spectator
- (uncredited)
- Ruffian in Louise's Ballet
- (uncredited)
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
- Third Policeman
- (uncredited)
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- AnecdotesThe film was not successful at the box office despite the positive reviews, but the soundtrack album became a national best seller.
- GaffesAbout one hour into the film, Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) sings the "My Boy Bill" soliloquy on the beach. At one minute, seventeen seconds into the song, four jets fly over in formation in the upper left of the frame. This scene was filmed on the beach near Paradise Cove, Malibu, California, in 1955, when there were several operating Navy and Marine military bases in southern California.
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Dr. Selden: [at Louise's graduation ceremony] It's the custom at these graduations to pick out some old duck like me to preach at the kids. Well, I can't preach at you. I know you all too well. I brought most of you into the world, rubbed linament on your backs, poured castor oil down your throats. I only hope that now I got you this far that you'll turn out to be worth all the trouble I took with you. I - I can't tell you any sure way to happiness. I only know that you've gotta go out and find it for yourselves. You can't lean on the success of your parents. That's their success. And don't be held back by their failures.
Billy Bigelow: [to Louise] Listen to him. Believe him.
Dr. Selden: Makes no difference what they did or didn't do. You just stand on your own two feet. The world belongs to you as much as to the next fella, so don't give it up. And try not to be scared of people not liking you, just you try liking them. And just keep your faith, and your courage, and you'll turn out all right. It's like what we used to sing every morning when I was a boy. Maybe you still sing it: "When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high." You know that one?
Singers at graduation: [singing] And don't be afraid of the dark.
[they continue with the rest of the song]
Billy Bigelow: [to Louise, as the singing is still going on] Believe him, darling. Believe.
[Louise joins in the singing, and puts her arm around the girl sitting next to her, who reciprocates]
Billy Bigelow: [Walks over to Julie] I loved you, Julie. Know that I loved you.
[Julie smiles and joins in singing. As the song reaches its climax, Billy and the Heavenly Friend walk away from the graduation and up a hill. Billy then takes a last look toward the schoolyard and follows the Heavenly Friend]
Singers at graduation: [singing] Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart/ And you'll never walk alone,/ You'll never walk alone!
- Générique farfeluA star hurtles downward and explodes in mid-air; out of this appears the credit "Twentieth Century-Fox presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel". The other credits all appear in a straightforward fashion.
- Autres versionsIn the film's first two telecasts on ABC-TV in 1966, Mrs. Mullin's line "I don't run my business for a lot of sluts." followed by Carrie's retort "Who you calling a slut? Slut yourself!" and Julie says "Yeah, slut yourself!" was edited out. The line was kept on all local station telecasts of the film, and on all video releases.
- ConnexionsFeatured in King of the Movies (1978)
- Bandes originalesThe Carousel Waltz
(1945) (uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Performed by the 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra Conducted by Alfred Newman
It would get a perfect 10 had it been done with the original two leads that were set for the show, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Judy backed out before production started and Sinatra shortly after that, so Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones got to do a second Rodgers&Hammerstein classic.
Carousel is based on the Ferenc Molnar play Liliom and the original setting is in Molnar's native Hungary. On Broadway it was done by Eva Le Gallienne and Joseph Schildkraut and later in revival by Ingrid Bergman and Burgess Meredith. One man who did it in summer stock was Tyrone Power who if a straight dramatic version of Liliom had ever been done, would have been perfect.
Whether he's Liliom in Hungary or Billy Bigelow in 19th century New England, the part is one for a hero/heel that Tyrone Power patented on the screen. Probably Gordon MacRae benefited in no small way in having Power's favorite director Henry King in charge of Carousel.
Richard Rodgers was also used to writing for a hero/heel having done Pal Joey with his former partner Lorenz Hart. Billy is that kind of guy, a carousel barker and boy toy to owner Audrey Christie when he spots Julie Jordan and her friend Carrie Pipperidge, a couple of mill workers. It's love at first sight and marriage shortly after, but Billy's not a guy to change his layabout ways and it ends in tragedy.
One reason that Sinatra was also so right for the part was that he had made a successful hit record of Billy's Soliliquy back in 1945 when Carousel debuted on Broadway. It was a groundbreaking piece of musical theater that Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were responsible for in the Soliliquy. Billy's just been told by Julie he's about to become a father. In an almost 10 minute number he bares his soul to the audience and sings/thinks aloud the moves he's going to make. The song is almost operatic in quality, it takes a real singing actor to put it over like Sinatra, like MacRae is here, like John Raitt in the original cast on stage.
Though it's not Julie's song, Judy Garland had a successful record with You'll Never Walk Alone. I'm sure she would have sung it in the film had she seen it through. It's probably the big hit song from the score, still an inspiring number today.
Rounding out the cast is Cameron Mitchell as Billy's no good pal Jigger, Robert Rounseville and Barbara Ruick as Mr. Snow and Carrie, the second leads and from the Metropolitan Opera Claramae Turner as Julie's cousin Nettie who does sing You'll Never Walk Alone.
Two more who are perfectly cast are John Dehner as the officious mill owner that employs the girls and the heavenly star-keeper, Gene Lockhart in one of his last roles.
Even more than in Oklahoma, Agnes DeMille's ballet numbers are used to advance the plot. From the exuberant June Is Busting Out All Over to the dance that Billy and Julie's daughter does, all are done with taste and style.
Carousel is both tragic and yet uplifting and inspiring. It's a musical for all the ages to come.
- bkoganbing
- 5 mai 2007
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel
- Lieux de tournage
- Boothbay Harbor, Maine, ÉTATS-UNIS(scenes outside Nettie's Spa and in marina, including musical numbers "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "When The Children Are Asleep")
- société de production
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Box-office
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 990 $ US
- Durée2 heures 8 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.55 : 1