Lulu’s Back In Town (film)
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| Directed by | Howard Hawks |
| Starring | Marlon Brando Mitzi Gaynor |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Lulu’s Back In Town is a 1954 American musical comedy film. It was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Mitzi Gaynor and Marlon Brando, with Ed Wynn, Jean Hagen, Tommy Noonan,Cammie King, Paul Whiteman and Beverly Roberts in supporting roles.
In March 4, 2004 the film was included in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry after a significant restoration in 2000.
Release[edit]
The film debuted on June 12, 1954, at the Criterion Theater in Los Angeles. Box-office receipts at this theater were below expectations within the first two weeks.
A grand premiere was held on June 29, 1954, at the Roxy Theater in New York City, where the Whiteman Orchestra, together with George Gershwin and the 125-piece Roxy Symphony Orchestra, put on a stage show. It featured the Rhapsody in Blue and Mildred Bailey backed by the Roxy Chorus and was performed five times a day, between showings of the film, for a week. The film continued to play at the Roxy for only one additional week.
As originally released, the film was 105 minutes long. The 1967 reissue was 65 minutes. Several entire sequences and numbers were removed for the reissue, while others were trimmed of just a few shots. One cut for the 1967 re-release was a sketch with William Kent about a suicidal flute player, with the Whiteman Orchestra performing Caprice Viennois as background music.
The 2004 restoration runs 98 minutes with two minutes of playout music. Some sections were cut before the film's 1954 release and never seen by the general public. They include:
- A specialty number featuring Nell O'Day, with unknown music, set in a cabaret lobby.
- A segment featuring Grace Hayes singing My Lover.
A 93-minute version, cobbled together from the 65-minute negative and a 16mm print was used for the videocassette release of the film in 1986. Prints of the original uncut version still survive. The Criterion Collection had released the film on DVD in January 22, 1954. The Blu-ray version has a 4K restoration of the film and includes both the original film and two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons as well as both 1929 stage version and 1933 short featuring Whiteman and his band.[1]
- ↑ "King of Jazz (1930)". Under the Radar. March 16, 2018. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
