Vivian Blaine
b. Vivian Stapleton, 21 November 1921, Newark, New Jersey, USA, d. 9 December 1995, New York City, New York, USA. A vivacious actress and singer, Vivian Blaine created one of the American musical theatre’s best-loved characters, Miss Adelaide, in Frank Loesser’s Guys And Dolls. She appeared on stage at her local theatre, and later attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art, before touring with various dance bands. From 1942-46, she was under contract to 20th Century-Fox, and played leading roles in musical films such as Greenwich Village Follies, Something For The Boys, Nob Hill, State Fair (in which she introduced ‘That’s For Me’ and, with Dick Haymes, ‘Isn’t It Kinda Fun?’), and Three Little Girls In Blue (‘Somewhere In The Night’). Blaine also toured in various musicals and in vaudeville before making her Broadway debut in Guys And Dolls in 1950. She gave a delightful performance as the dancer who has been waiting for 14 years in the hope that her fiancé, Nathan Detroit, will finally abandon his floating crap game and marry her. Her frustration boiled over in ‘Sue Me’, and she was splendid in the ensemble numbers ‘Take Back Your Mink’ and ‘A Bushel And A Peck’ with the girls at the ‘Hot Box’ nightclub. However, her stand-out song was ‘Adelaide’s Lament’, in which she shared the knowledge - just gleaned from a book, of all things - that there seems to be a direct relationship between long engagements and ill health: ‘In other words just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold/A person - can develop a cold.’ In 1953 she repeated her success at the London Coliseum, and was back on Broadway five years later with Say, Darling, in which she co-starred with Robert Morse, David Wayne and Johnny Desmond. She subsequently appeared in a number of plays such as A Hatful Of Rain and Enter Laughing, and toured extensively in musical revivals, including Zorba, Follies, Hello, Dolly!, Gypsy, and I Do! I Do! She succeeded Jane Russell (who had taken over from Elaine Stritch) in the role of Joanne in the Broadway production of Company, and also performed in cabaret. After that, her work comprised mainly straight roles in plays, movies, and on US television, where she appeared in the ongoing soap-opera parody, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. She was married three times - one of her husbands was Milton Rackmil, president of Decca Records and Universal Pictures.
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20 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Vivian Blaine Singing Selections From Pal Joey/Annie Get Your Gun
Classique - Paru chez Verve (Adult Contemporary) le 1 janv. 2004
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Songs From The Great White Way And The Ziegfeld Follies (All Tracks Remastered)
Pop - Paru chez jjjedizionimusicali le 13 mai 2023
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Star of the Screen
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Music Manager le 6 août 2015
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Essential Masters
Jazz vocal - Paru chez Master Classics Records le 1 sept. 2009
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Songs From The Ziegfeld Follies & The Great White Way
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Sepia le 11 févr. 2008
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Heatwave
Bandes originales - Paru chez Dazzling Dames le 6 janv. 2008
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The Best of Broadway
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Burning Fire le 14 oct. 2008
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Songs from the Great White Way
Pop - Paru chez Music Manager le 22 juin 2021
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Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene
Comédies musicales - Paru chez Vintage Jukebox le 19 avr. 2023
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Bushel and a Peck
Pop - Paru chez Black Sheep Music le 12 août 2013
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Songs from the Ziegfeld Follies
Pop - Paru chez Music Manager le 22 juin 2021
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A Bushel And A Peck (UK Chart Top 20 - No. 12)
Vivian Blaine, The Hot Box Girls
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Music Manager le 19 déc. 2018
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Glimpse Of Love Tunes
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Music Manager le 22 mai 2015
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Selections From Annie Get Your Gun
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Music Manager le 1 janv. 2011
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What Is There To Say / Mandy (All Tracks Remastered)
Pop - Paru chez Hit Singles Records le 12 mai 2020
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Songs from the Ziegfeld Follies
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez PnR le 1 janv. 2000
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Hello, Frisco! / I Like The Likes of You (All Tracks Remastered)
Pop - Paru chez Hit Singles Records le 16 juil. 2020
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Lonely / Changing Partners (All Tracks Remastered)
Pop - Paru chez Hit Singles Records le 28 févr. 2020
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Row Row Row (All Tracks Remastered)
Pop - Paru chez Hit Singles Records le 17 juin 2021
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