January 12 - Julie with Eydie Gorme and Jim Nabors

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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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