| Judy and JUMBO | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 01:49 pm EST 02/03/25 | |
| In reply to: re: Judy Garland was considered for take me out to the ballgame?! nm - JereNYC 11:27 am EST 02/03/25 | |
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| Judy was slated to star in JUMBO, first in 1943, opposite Mickey Rooney, with Wallace Beery and Frank Morgan as the rival circus owner fathers, and Jimmy Durante reprising his role as press agent Brainy Bowers. Then, after that was torpedoed largely because Billy Rose had approval of the screenplay and he nixed it, she was in the mix again, with Frank Sinatra, in 1945. Rouben Mamoulian was to direct. That might have happened, pending Billy again, but when Jerome Kern suddenly died, everything at MGM went into a tizzy. They were already behind on TIL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY, so JUMBO was again shelved. The studio brought it up again in 1946, with rumors it would be assigned to Charles Walters, then it didn’t resurface until 1950, when the possible cast included Hutton and Keel. Through the fifties, nearly every star in MGM’s stable (including Esther Williams!) was tentatively connected to the circus musical, but Judy’s name was out of the mix after 1945. Oh, what might have been! I think a 1940s JUMBO, sticking more closely to the original libretto (such as it was) with Judy and Mickey or Frank, would have been one for the ages. Laura in LA, self-appointed (because who else would do it?) repository of all things JUMBO |
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