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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) was a Musical - Comedy Film directed by David Swift and produced by David Swift and Irving Temaner.

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

By Beatrice on Jul 25, 2019 From Flickers in Time

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Directed by David Swift Written by David Swift from the Broadway musical by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert and the novel by Shepherd Mead 1967/USA The Mirisch Corporation Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant I was looking for a movie that w... Read full article


Musical Monday: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

on Sep 3, 2018 From Comet Over Hollywood

It?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: How to Succeed in Business W... Read full article


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J. B. Biggley: Do you know who I am?
J. Pierpont Finch: No, sir.
J. B. Biggley: I'm J. B. Biggley, the President of this company, that's who I am. In fact, that's who the hell I am.


J. Pierpont Finch: What are you taking that down in?
Hedy LaRue: Long hand. It's safer. I make up for it when I type.
J. Pierpont Finch: Oh, you type fast.
Hedy LaRue: Like a jack rabbit - 12 words a minute.


Rosemary: Lunch.
J. Pierpont Finch: Huh?
Rosemary: I said, "Lunch."
J. Pierpont Finch: What about "lunch"?
Rosemary: I'd love to!


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The original Broadway production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opened at the Forty-sixth Street Theater in New York on October 14, 1961, ran for 1417 performances and won the 1962 Tony Awards for the Best Musical and Book and was nominated for Best Score. Robert Morse (Winner of the 1962 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Rudy Vallee, Ruth Kobart and Sammy Smith recreated their stage roles for the movie version.
The song "Coffee Break" was filmed, but the footage was later deemed unusable, leaving a somewhat obvious cut when the coffee cart arrives.
All of Rosemary's songs (including "Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm" and "Paris Original") were cut from the movie version. To make up for this "I Believe In You" was given to her for the movie. In the stage play, she does not sing this to him, and the first time we hear it is during the scene where Finch sings it to himself in the executive washroom, but she does a brief reprise of the song after this scene.
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