On The Town by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was the Winner of The Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, nevertheless, it does not make it on my Top 500, or even Top 5,000 for that matter…you have thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

On The Town by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was the Winner of The Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, nevertheless, it does not make it on my Top 500, or even Top 5,000 for that matter…you have thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

7 out of 10

 

I do not see why this motion picture made it on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, but then I am not a fan of musicals – one aspect intrigues me, the name of one of the writers, and this reminds me of https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/how-about-adolf-based-on-play-by.html How About Adolf?

 

This is a film I enjoyed, and there are perhaps more than two more versions, an Italian and a Romanian one, I think, the subject is both comical and rather gruesome: a baby has to have a name and the question is…What About Adolf, Adolph Green was born before the name of the mad dictator became synonymous with monster

On the one hand, it is obvious that taking such a name – the original work is called Le Prenom – is inviting worse than mockery, and the child should have such a burden, but then, if we start eliminating, Stalin was called Joseph, so that would have to be out, incidentally, that was also the Christian name of Mengele…

 

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-kid-stays-in-picture-by-robert-evans.html I like to write about this story I have read in The Kid Stays in The Picture, by former actor, producer, and head of Paramount, Robert Evans, which involves Frank Sinatra, one of the lead thespians of On The Town, and not a favorite of mine

he was married to Mia Farrow, and this makes the actress an extraordinary human being, to be the consort of Sintra and then Woody Allen, I see them as opposites, even if they share a quite disturbing sort of maleness, anyway, Sinatra wanted Farrow to end her participation on a motion picture she was starring in

 

she refused and that may have ended her marital status, I am not sure what I have read in the book about this, however, at the end of filming Rosemary’s Baby  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/rosemarys-baby-by-ira-levin-10-out-of-10.html she wnated some...advertising

Rosemary’s Baby proved to be a huge success, both at the box office and with the critics, while the movie Sinatra had been making was a flop, so Mia Farrow wanted Evans to take a two-page ad: on one side the takings of Rosemary’s Baby and on the other whatever her (ex?) spouse did, I thought that funny

 

Plus, it changed my view of Frank Sinatra, and I now tend to reject the features he is in, even the better ones  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/from-here-to-eternity-based-on-novel-by.html such as From Here To Eternity, albeit the latter had him in a supporting role, and then Burt Lancaster is towering over all- you should see The Leopard, by the way

 

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