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Have you ever heard the “Sam Schwartz, from the Bronx” joke about the adulation of Ezio Pinza? I think it was Myron Cohen. I tried to find it on the Internet, but I think the only place it exists now is in my memory.

BTW, I saw “South Pacific” live on the island of Kauai, where the movie was filmed. Some of the original cast members were in the production. It was small scale, but very nice.

[Liz]

I never heard the E/P story of which you post-—but I’d like to.

Pinza thought he was set for life when he got a movie contract——his first pic co-starred the beauteous Lana Turner-—he played a King. Turned out to be the biggest flop and Lana detested him.

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Author James Michener was in the South Pacific at wartime. He saw or heard the name Bali High......the name resonated and he wrote it down. The song was a very poignant moment in the film.

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This is cute——— you can hear Pinza singing Anema e core in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, playing on a phonograph in the scene where Jake and Elwood visit landlady Mrs Tarantino.

[Liz]

The legend was Gigi director Vincente Minelli was such a perfectionist that in the Maxim’s scene he grouched that one player did not even know how to carry a menu.

His crew had to remind him the man carrying the menus was the REAL maitre d’ of the renowned Maxim’s.