Fact #164307
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Short story:
Barbra Streisand is in Garrison, New York State, USA, filming scenes for the movie Hello Dolly.
Full article:
Barbra Streisand : I did feel that Dolly was a story of older people and that they should hire Elizabeth Taylor to play her. I thought that would be a great role for her first musical. But when everybody seemed to be against me as Dolly, I took up the challenge.
I've never been an underdog in Hollywood, and people get spiteful about about me. They tell lies that make good journalistic copy. I have very little in common with a character like Dolly, who fixes people up and lives other people's lives. I do share the fun she gets in bargaining and buys, and can understand her experience as a woman who has loved and lost.
A woman can be any age for that. But I really didn't respond to the Broadway show—a piece of fluff. It's not the kind of thing I'm interested in. I'm interested in real life, real people, and in playing Medea. Dolly takes place in an age before people realized they hated their mothers - the whole Freudian thing. So it wasn't something I could delve psychologically into too deeply, but I could have fun with Dolly and get days off because I didn't have to be in every single scene for once. I call Hello, Dolly! my last big voice picture.
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I've never been an underdog in Hollywood, and people get spiteful about about me. They tell lies that make good journalistic copy. I have very little in common with a character like Dolly, who fixes people up and lives other people's lives. I do share the fun she gets in bargaining and buys, and can understand her experience as a woman who has loved and lost.
A woman can be any age for that. But I really didn't respond to the Broadway show—a piece of fluff. It's not the kind of thing I'm interested in. I'm interested in real life, real people, and in playing Medea. Dolly takes place in an age before people realized they hated their mothers - the whole Freudian thing. So it wasn't something I could delve psychologically into too deeply, but I could have fun with Dolly and get days off because I didn't have to be in every single scene for once. I call Hello, Dolly! my last big voice picture.
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