Chitty Chitty Bang Bang turns 35
by SheilaM 22 Replies latest jw friends
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SheilaM
Coool XW love the posters
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cruzanheart
I liked the grandpa ("I'm off to India"), and I LOVED the book by Ian Fleming even more than the movie. Still have it but Jennie doesn't want to read it yet, even if it does have a recipe for fudge at the back!
Nina
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Gadget
I loved that film, especially when he was restoring the old car.
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William Penwell
Dick Van Dyck played the male lead in the movie but that picture looks like someone else. Is it my eyes or is that a different actor?
Will
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cruzanheart
Thanks, Master Penwell, I was thinking the same thing! Didn't look like Susannah York next to him, either.
Nina
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TresHappy
I believe those photos are from the stage play that has been in the UK.
Sally Ann Howes played Truly. This was a fun movie. I remember seeing it the first time with my mom's neighbor and her 3 kids.
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xenawarrior
I think it's a poster from one of the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" plays done at the London Palladium. Isn't that Juliet Mills ? Interesting eh?
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TresHappy
Juliet Mills - she was playing Tabitha on NBC's Passions. Sally Ann Howes, I don't remember her in anything else. Perhaps she was mainly doing British productions. Sally Ann has got to be in her 70's now, along with Dick Van Dyke, who still looks dapper after all these years. Although Chitty is a good movie, Mary Poppins is better!
And Juliet Mills is married to this hunk!
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Number 6
Hello all,
The evil child catcher, which is my enduring memory of this film was a celebrated theatre and Shakespearean actor called Robert Helpmann.
The Internet Movie Database has the following on him,
Born 9th April 1909, Mount Gambier South Australia. Died 28th September 1986, Sydney, Australia.
Mini Biography.
Son of James Murray Helpmann & Mary (nee Gardiner), he was educated at Prince Alfred's College, Adelaide, South Australia. He first danced solo at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide in The Ugly Duckling in 1922. He went on to become the pricipal dancer at Sadlers Wells ballet from 1933 to 1950. World renowned as a dancer and choreographer, amongst his other achievements he was the director of the Australian Ballet Company. He directed the world tour of Margot Fonteyn in 1963.
Was the person who showed American actress Katharine Hepburn her first Lyrebirds during a working tour of Australia, when they co-starred in Shakespearian plays.
On his "This is Your Life" (in Australia) the guest of honour was Michael Powell who came on with a pair of "Red Shoes".
He was awarded the Scroll of Honour in Norway in 1950.
He was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1964.
He was made a KBE (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1968.
He was awarded the Order of the Knight of the North Star in Sweden in 1975.
- Personal quotes
"If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told."
"Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of the theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety -- this is the only life I know. It is the life I love."
"The Trouble with Nude Dancing is that not everything stops when the music does."
Thought you might like to know.
Craig