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Saturday, January 28, 2023
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE A FUNNY GIRL SINGING "HELLO DOLLY" FOREVER
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (1970)
dir: Vincente Minelli
FUNNY GIRL (1968)
dir: William Wyler
HELLO,DOLLY (1969)
dir: Gene Kelly
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE A FUNNY GIRL SINGING “HELLO DOLLY” FOREVER
MAD #143, June 1971
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker
Parody not of one particular movie but a compilation of the three movies Barbara Streiand had done to date.
In On a Clear Day..., Marc Chabot (Yves Montand) is a psychiatrist that uses hypnosis on his clients. He gets Daisy Gamble (Barbara Steisand) to quit smoking and in doing so.reveals she was a noblewoman in a past life. In this, her past lives are characters from her previous movies. The first one was Funny Girl, a biopic about Fanny Brice.
Fanny Brice is a vaudeville performer who falls for gangster Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif). He eventually takes her to meet Flo Ziegfield (Walter Pidgeon) who makes her a part of his troupe.
They separate after Nicky becomes involved in a bonds scheme.
Sharif had been in Lawrence of Arabia. Streisand was married to Elliott Gould at the time.
Hello, Dolly was a musical that took place in 1890 and was about matchmaker Dolly Levi (also Streisand) who, while trying to find a wife for Horace Vandergelder(Walter Matthau) ends up falling for him.
The big number in the movie is Louis Armstrong singing the title song.
Directors Vincente Minelli, William Wyler, and Gene Kelly are feature in the next to last panel.
Come Back to Me was actually sung by Montand's character but whatever.
From MAD's Celebrity Feature Merchandising Gimmicks by Phil Hahn and Jack Rickard in MAD #90, October 1964. The guy with the nose slightly resembles Saturday Night Live cast member James Austin Johnson, though he wouldn't be born until almost 35 years later.
On the bottom right of page 3, the conductor is Leonard Bernstein.
Elliot Gould shows up in the top right of the last page, mentioning Vietnam.
A bit of totally meaningless trivia: Barbra Streisand may be the actress who appeared most often in Mad. After this, Mad parodied seven more movies she starred in: The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were, Funny Lady, A Star Is Born, Yentl, Prince of Tides, and Meet the Fockers. I can't think of any other actress who matches that.
On the bottom right of page 3, the conductor is Leonard Bernstein.
ReplyDeleteElliot Gould shows up in the top right of the last page, mentioning Vietnam.
A bit of totally meaningless trivia: Barbra Streisand may be the actress who appeared most often in Mad. After this, Mad parodied seven more movies she starred in: The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were, Funny Lady, A Star Is Born, Yentl, Prince of Tides, and Meet the Fockers. I can't think of any other actress who matches that.