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I Could Go on Singing (1963)
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11 October 1963 (Finland)
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IT'S JUDY! Lighting up the lonely stage in the singing-acting role of her life! more
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Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again...
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Garland as Garland
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Judy Garland | ... | Jenny Bowman | |
| Dirk Bogarde | ... | David Donne | |
| Jack Klugman | ... | George | |
| Aline MacMahon | ... | Ida | |
| Gregory Phillips | ... | Matt | |
| Russell Waters | ... | Reynolds | |
| Pauline Jameson | ... | Miss Plimpton | |
| Jeremy Burnham | ... | Young Hospital Doctor | |
| Eric Woodburn | |||
| Robert Rietty | |||
| Gerald Sim | ... | Assistant Mgr. at the Palladium | |
| David Lee | ... | Pianist | |
| Leon Cortez | ... | The Busker | |
| Al Paul | |||
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| Paul Layton | |||
| Joey Luft | ... | Extra on boat | |
| Lorna Luft | ... | Extra on boat | |
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The Lonely Stage (USA) (working title)
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100 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Originally, Judy Garland had prerecorded the tender ballad "It Never Was You" (music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Maxwell Anderson) with full orchestral backing arranged and conducted by Mort Lindsey. When filming on a mock-up of the London Palladium stage, Miss Garland chose to sing live on the set, accompanied by just pianist David Lee. Capitol Records, in 2006, released the star's initial version on a CD collection called "The Essential Judy Garland." Her rendition used in the movie has been brought back on the CD soundtrack from the Collectables label.
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Jenny Bowman:
I can't be spread so thin, I'm just one person. I don't want to be rolled out like a pastry so everybody can get a nice big bite of me. I'm just me. I belong to myself. I can do whatever I damn well please with myself and nobody can ask any questions.
David Donne: Now you know that is not true, don't you?
Jenny Bowman: Well I'm not gonna do it anymore. And that's final! its just not worth all the deaths that I have to die.
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David Donne: Now you know that is not true, don't you?
Jenny Bowman: Well I'm not gonna do it anymore. And that's final! its just not worth all the deaths that I have to die.
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Soundtrack:
I COULD GO ON SINGING
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Judy Garland is magnificent playing herself; sorry, playing Jenny Bowman, an American singer of a certain age, in London for a series of concerts at the Palladium. The movie is a mostly mediocre tale of mother love but as a showcase for Garland, both as actress and as a performer, (her scenes at the Palladium were probably as close as the movies ever came to capturing her on-stage persona), is it exhilarating and indelibly moving. By the time she gets around to her drunken 'I can't be spread so thin' speech all traces of the character have been wiped clean and it's Garland, raw and emotional, up there on the screen. She was never to make another film, which is probably just as well. With this you can say she went out on a high.
Co-star Dirk Bogarde fights a losing battle, (and he gets some terrible lines to say). He's a prissy, fussy stuffed shirt and you can never believe that he and Garland could ever have been romantically involved. There is also a wonderful turn from that great and perpetually undervalued actress Aline MacMahon as Garland's dresser-cum-secretary-cum-companion. But it's Garland's show. The panavision frame can hardly contain her.