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I had mentioned my late mother was a fan of Phyllis Diller. Another comedienne she enjoyed watching was Carol Burnett. Before Burnett’s long-running variety show, she did a series of TV specials with Julie Andrews.
One of shows included a musical sketch with Andrews making fun of her role of Maria in The Sound of Music. The only catch was, the movie wasn’t yet in production and she hadn’t even been cast for the part!
A little wordplay turned the large Trapp family into the Pratt family. We had only six kids in our Pratt family!
The video quality is shaky, but the sound is very good. Burnett looks concerned at the end after hitting Andrews because Julie was pregnant.
P.S. Isn’t Julie just beautiful! She didn’t get to do “Camelot” in the movies, even though she created the role of Guiniviere (typo), and was also tossed aside in favor of the beautiful but non-singing Audrey Hepburn for ANOTHER of her Tony-winning performances: “My Fair Lady!” She showed them, huh?
Obviously Julie is only in her first trimester, or having a concave pregnancy! I just happened to catch her in “The Sound of Music” the day before Christmas Eve. I had forgotten how much I loved the romantic scene where Captain von Trapp dumps Eleanor Powell, than goes after Maria in the pavilion. Sigh … It pissed me off years later when I read the Christopher Plummer positively hated every second he worked on the movie!