Sunday, 5 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: You'd Be Surprised (Madeline Kahn)
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Posted on 02/05/2012 1:47 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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6 Feb 2012
Send an emailPaul Blaskowicz

Can that boy foxtrot

The awkwardly giggling Yvonne de Carlo in this clip from 1971, was approached by David Selznick in the late 1940s to play Mary Baker Eddy in a biopic.  The Christian Science authorities in Boston were  resolutely opposed to  a film about  Mrs Eddy which  they said "would  inevitably trivialize" her life and work.  After consideration  de Carlo declined Selznick's offer on the grounds  that to go against the wishes of the Mother Church "would bring down a storm of malicious animal magnetism on myself and the studio".