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BiopicFilm & TelevisionHistoricalJulie AndrewsMusicMusicals
  • 1968

This is a fairly bloated screen musical about Gertrude Lawrence, starring Julie Andrews at the height of her career. In the climactic number, she sings “The Saga of Jenny,” a number Lawrence made famous from the Weill/Gershwin musical Lady in the Dark—which has a great lyric that references Vassar. (This song also appears in the 1944 movie of Lady in the Dark, as well as the 1954 television production.) The scene from the show is set in a dream sequence of a trial conducted by a circus.