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Julie with Jim Nabors |
Julie seemed to be in a very
good mood. I think she enjoyed working with Eydie Gorme and Jim Nabors. She was
also dressed beautifully in a cream-colored hooped skirt with pink camilias
all over. She looked adorable with a wiglet of curls on her head.
Julie and
Eydie kidded each other along onstage. Then, Julie sat on the lounge seat in her hooped skirt with stage manager, Woody. They were both their feet back and forth like a
couple of kids.
I have to admit that our seats
were excellent. While we were sitting stage right, no cameras ever got in our
way. In fact, I had never watched Julie from a better spot.
The studio audience on this
night was the best audience I had seen during the time I attended the show and
the performers received a warm response to everything they did. There was a lot
of dancing onstage too. Jim Nabors, who was courting Julie in this Southern
scene, sang a song to her and danced around so funny we all laughed. That is,
all but Patty and the fan club president.
Then, in the midst of it all, Eydie
Gorme sang her hit song, “Didn’t We.” It was great! And she did it in one take.
The audience roared! After she finished, the producers and all of the crew came
out on stage to shake hands with her. She’s a great professional; just natural,
friendly and so funny. She constantly broke down laughing during the scene with
Julie, Jim and Rich. She’s the sort of lady you’d like to be your neighbor.
When Julie and Jim Nabors sang
“Only Make Believe” from Show Boat, it was so beautiful, I cried. Because of
Jim Nabor’s appearance and sort of gawky Southern manners when he speaks,
people don’t expect the beautiful singing voice that comes out of him. I wrote
in my diary that night: “Romance lived in the sound of Jim and Julie’s voices.”
When Rich Little came onstage made-up dressed to look like Clark Gable as
Rhett Butler, he said, “I’ve been waiting to play this role all week!”
Julie was supposed to play a
harp with Jim Nabors standing so close, his nose was practically through the
strings. In the end of the scene, Eydie was to marry Jim Nabors, and Julie was
to marry Rich Little as Clark Gable. When it came time for Eydie to say her
line, “She’s in love with Rhett the Butler ,” she
broke up. She laughed so hard, the tears rolled down her cheeks. In fact, she
was laughing so hard, she could hardly stand up. Then, she ran to get a Kleenex
to keep her mascara from running. She was hilarious. The director didn’t call
“cut” when this happened, so, we, the audience, laughed with her..."
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In memory of the great Eydie Gorme. Thank you dear Eydie for all the joy and great beauty you gave our world! You will be forever missed.
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