by LauraLoo
Dating back to 1956, this is one of Gordon MacRae’s finest moments of all time. In this scene, Billy has just found out that Julie is pregnant with his baby.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVqoc_GOH-0&feature=email[/youtube]
Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.
[HT: Hans Johnson]
Violations will be deleted and you may be banned.
Threats will be immediately reported to authorities.
Following these rules will make everyone's experience visiting JillStanek.com better.
Our volunteer moderators make prudent judgment calls to provide an open forum to discuss these issues. They reserve the right to remove any comment for any reason. Jill's decisions on such moderations are final.
Go to gravatar.com to create your avatar.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I love the musical “Carousel”…sad, though, but very well done by Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. This is a really good scene, too.
I’ve heard of the movie, but I’ve never seen it. So…what did the baby turn out to be? Boy or girl?
Hans, do you know?
Gordon MacRae is considered by many to be the best male vocalist of that golden age of movie musicals.
It was indeed a girl. The same ballet dancer who was in Oklahoma! along with MacRae. Unfortunately, Billy Bigelow took the wrong road for looking out for his family - getting into a robbery gone terribly wrong.
Hans,
Wait, but you know that’s not the WHOLE story. He receives forgiveness in the end. It’s a sad musical, but Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae do an extremely good job and it has some awesome music.
Sorry to be a bummer, but have you ever noticed that men tend to assume they are having a boy? And when there is fertility trouble, people always assume it’s the woman?
Jacqueline,
Not EVERY man is like that. Yes, there’s some who are, but not ALL of them.
Mother In Texas,
You’re right, of course. For an unusually sad musical it does end with forgiveness and hope. And it’s “theme song” is “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, which Jerry Lewis sings every year at the end of his telethon.
Jacqueline, that’s the point of this soliloquy! This big galoot expects “my boy Bill” but then is more than accepting that it will be (is) a girl.