Saturday, January 14, 2017
Friday, January 13, 2017
THAT GIRL IN WONDERLAND
Rankin/Bass' That Girl in Wonderland appeared on the ABC Saturday
Superstar Movie January 13, 1974. I will include a dvd disc of the
special with any order from now until midnight at www.miserbros.com
My late friend Rhoda Mann did some voice work in the special and she
actually taped it from TV on Beta at the time it aired, complete with
the commercials and this is the copy I have. Another Rankin/Bass special that they included a segment from The Wizard of Oz, with Marlo as Dorothy!
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Happy Ray Bolger's Birthday!
We celebrate Ray Bolger's birthday with a look at his performance as The
Pieman in Rankin/Bass' The Daydreamer (1966).
*The full un-cropped still seen here, is published full page in the RARE FINDS section of the hardcover book THE ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. SCRAPBOOK: The Birth of Animagic. The RARE FINDS section that we added to the book is really something!
I think it is the closest performance he came to his Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. The
Bass/Laws' song "Who Can Tell," is very close to "If I only had a Brain"
in style and he reunites with his Wizard of Oz Co-star Margaret
Hamilton in this star-studded feature film! Rankin/Bass Produced The
Tales of the Wizard of Oz series and the television special Return
to Oz prior, so it was well known they were Oz fans. I do see many
similarities in the story telling of The Daydreamer and The Wizard of
Oz. In 1985, the last Animagic special Rankin/Bass would produce was
Frank L. Baum's The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus. With any
orders that come in tonight at www.miserbros.com,
I will include a dvd disc of The Daydreamer complete with the bonus
features. C. 2017 Miser Bros Press/Rick Goldschmidt Archives #raybolger #thewizardofoz #thedaydreamer #rankinbass #animagic #dvd #scarecrow #oz
*art by Al Hirscfeld
