South Pacific: I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Anna

I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
And send him on his way
I’m gonna wave that man right outa my arms
I’m gonna wave that man right outa my arms
I’m gonna wave that man right outa my arms
And send him on his way
Don’t try to patch it up Tear it up, tear it up Wash him out, dry him out
Push him out, fly him out
Cancel him and let him go Yeah, sister
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
And send him on his way
If the man don’t understand you
If you fly on separate beams
Waste no time, make a change
Ride that man right off your range
Rub him out of the roll call
And drum him out of your dreams
If you laugh at different comics
If you root for different teams
Waste no time, weep no more
Show him what the door is for
Rub him out of the roll call
And drum him out of your dreams
Oh no, oh no
I’m gonna rub, wash, wave
Rub that man right outa my hair
I’m gonna rub, wash, wave
Rub that man right outa my hair
Don’t try to patch it up Tear it up, tear it up Wash him out, dry him out
Push him out, fly him out
Cancel him and let him go Yeah, sister
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
And send him on his way and send him on his way
I’m gonna send him, send him on his way

Lorna Phillips

8y↑55

Nellie:
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair,
And send him on his way.
I'm gonna wave that man right outa my arms,
Nellie and Girls:
I'm gonna wave that man right outa my arms,
I'm gonna wave that man right outa my arms,
And send him on his way.
Don't try to patch it up
Girls:
Tear it up, tear it up!
Nellie:
Wash him out, dry him out,
Girls:
Push him out, fly him out,
Nellie:
Cancel him and let him go!
Girls:
Yea, sister!
Nellie:
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair,
And send him on his way.
If a man don't understand you,
If you fly on separate beams,
Waste no time, make a change,
Ride that man right off your range.
Rub him out of the roll call
And drum him out of your dreams.
Girls:
Oho! If you laugh at different comics,
If you root for different teams,
Waste no time, weep no more,
Show him what the door is for.
Rub him out of the roll call
And drum him out of your dreams.
Nellie:
You can't light a fire when the woods are wet,
Girls:
No!
Nellie:
You can't make a butterfly strong,
Girls:
Hmm, hmm!
Nellie:
You can't fix an egg when it ain't quite good,
Girls:
And you can't fix a man when he's wrong!
Nellie:
You can't put back a petal when it falls from a flower,
Or sweeten up a fellow when he starts turnin' sour
Girls:
Oh no! Oh no!
Nellie and Girls:
If his eyes get dull and fishy,
When you look for glints and gleams,
Waste no time,
Make a switch,
Drop him in the nearest ditch!
Rub him out of the roll call,
And drum him out of your dreams
Oho! Oho!
Nellie:
I went to wash that man right outa my hair,
I went to wash that man right outa my hair,
I went to wash that man right outa my hair,
And sent him on his way.
Girls:
She went to wash that man right outa my hair,
She went to wash that man right outa my hair,
She went to wash that man right outa my hair,
Nellie and Girls:
And send him on his way!

All comments from YouTube:

Staciabuttons

4y↑203

When I was little my grandma would give me a bath and while washing my hair she would sing “I’m gonna wash the dirt right outta my hair, and send it on it’s wayyyy!” She changed the words to be more appropriate. I love memories of my grandma. 😍

Bobby Wimsy

3y↑2

Wonder if Melania sings it.

Kaeonian

3y↑2

@Bobby Wimsy good one.

Legolas

Same here

Kate Hornby

2y↑2

The reason we are playing this is because our little 18month old is having a bath and my husband is singing I'm going wash that food right outta my hair" - still in the phase where food is more a plaything than something you put in your mouth. Everywhere else gets good, apart from his mouth haha

Fiona Jolly

my mum did too!

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maureen1938

7y↑29

It's a delight to see Mitzi Gaynor again, such a beautiful and talented artist. Thank you for posting this truly lovely share.

Anna Marie

4y↑30

This is the song that made me realize I needed to break up with my ex. I got to see it on the big screen thanks to Fathom Events and when this song started playing, I had my AH HA moment. I realized I needed to wash that boy out of my hair and I’ve never regretted the decision since 😉

Gayle Dimitri

4y↑4

Anna Marie I have found you sometimes need to use a deep conditioner after, lol!

Carlos Hugo Geib

5y↑8

What a musical it is. Wonderful songs. I wanna wash this man right out of my mind, here we find an inteligent word's play in a special melody. The really good musicals are so rare today. Mitzy Gaiynor was awesome.

Sarah Kirk

6y↑104

Saw this musical on stage when I was really young (like so young that I had no idea what the plot of it was) and ever since I’ve had this song just randomly pop into my head at the most random moments and idk why or how I remember it

Bèa K

5y↑2

Oh my word! Same to me. Inwas maybe 12. I saw clearly watched & heard the tall beautiful woman on stage scrap soapy suds and sing this song!

And every few years...Pop! Into my head. And only the chorus mind.

Serenity

You and me both.

The Aquadolls

SAME i just searched the lyrics up to find this video

Nina Williams

Um, same 🤣 which is what brought me here today

lynda fouhy

Exactly, it would be 60 years since I saw the stage show put on in my home town and that song has stuck.

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Jim W.

4y↑9

One of my all-time favorite movies. I loved Mitzi Gaynor and Nellie Forbush from Little Rock. This movie is a classic. Great in every way. Even as a teenage boy I played the soundtrack record a million times!!! Oops... I probably shouldn't have admitted that.🤪

The Be Sharp

3y↑7

When I saw this movie as a kid, the moment right after this song really shocked me. The guy asks her about "That song you were singing...". I'd always assumed that in musicals, the audience is meant to assume reality basically takes a break during the singing of a song... But by him asking her about it when they're back to talking, we're meant to believe that in the actual real-life reality as perceived by these people, this woman and all the others on the beach had in fact miraculously burst into song and spontaneously performed a perfectly choreographed dance number?!

gordon kemp

5y↑11

Bloody platinum scale, magnificent talent on every level. Absolutely smashing & tremendous in every possible way.

Miom Miom

4y↑82

Still don’t know why my grandmother didn’t think this was a good choice to play at my grandfathers funeral...

Charles Slater

4y↑3

🤣

itsalysssaa

4y↑3

she just wanted to send him on his way 😇 your grandma is a legend

Stephen Cowley

11y↑5

This sequence was filmed in its entirety and would match the soundtrack recording perfect if it could be found, as was the children's solo 'Dites Moi' on the soundtrack recording but Dies Moi was cut completely out of the film and 'wash that man badly cut before even the roadshow version of the film was shown.

Suzinne Barrett

10y↑6

Still remember pulling out the LP of this cast album simply to hear Mitzi belt out this deliciously bluesy tune. Mitzi was so great.

Griffith Harland

10y

"Mitzi (is) so great! You're never dead still you stop leaving foot-prints!"

Suzinne Barrett

10y

Is Mitzi still performing? Believe the tense I used is correct. Her career's behind her.

gossamerwings

9y↑1

Suzinne Barrett Mitzi is still around and kicking!!! She's 83 and like Debbie Reynolds who's about the same age, still doing their schtick for women their age which is wonderful!!! go Mitzi !!!

gossamerwings

9y↑1

Suzinne Barrett Of course Mitzi's career isn't what it was at 83, she's still very active!!!

taurnguard

5y↑72

When I watch this stuff as a kid, I come up with questions like "Doesn't it freak the others out that they know the words to a song she just made up?"

Emily Kresl

Same 🤣

Samuel Workman

41w

My thought is always about the random music coming on in the middle of every day life.

Kate Rouse

4y↑3

Grew up listening to this and dancing around with my sisters. Love that album.

juxtawho

7y↑9

Gosh, I always LOVED this song! Relationship ending? Washed my hair and sang this out loud, very loudly ~ lol

Sue Lyons

8y↑135

"Show him what the door is for" Love it

Cookie Ceo

4y↑4

Love, love, love South Pacific. Music is so wonderful.

sublime doldrums

5y↑4

this musical deserves more attention tbh

Fiona Jolly

2y↑1

My mum sang this to me while washing my hair when I was a wee girl <3

Bastiaan Stapelberg

Heerlijk om dit weer te horen.

Sally Bradshaw

4y↑37

This has the same energy as cutting your bangs after a break-up.

kay regulski

38w

This was my all-time favorite musical. I cannot believe that it has been ruined. I tried to watch it and some of the best parts of the movie aren’t there anymore. And the second remake more than 1/10 as good

gossamerwings

9y↑3

I'm not as crazy about this song as I am about "A Wonderful Guy" even before I saw the beach scene where it was filmed on beautiful (back in those days) Lumahai Beach, after years of storms part of the beach isn't looking quite the same, Hurricane Iniki in 1992 really damaged that north shore of Kaua'i , Charo's store was still closed and no longer there when I went in 1993 and in 2012. But definitely I love this scene in the movie because of that beach!!

Rick Chapman

4y↑4

That was a great movie!! I was one of the sailors, when I was with The Magic Circle Theater, in Montrose, Colorado 2011. That was so much fun to act and sing in that.

Christine Moore-McPeak

5y↑6

I remember laying on my tummy leaning out my bedroom door, to watch it and listen to the songs while my parents watched it :)

Ducky McScrooge

7y↑1

Good music...a great musical of its day for the audiences of post WWII America. They could really relate to the themes, I'm sure.

Artemis The Guardian

5y↑1

I did a dance recital with this song a long time ago. Ahh, nostalgia.

Carrie Beagle

11y↑1

love this movie and this song! Actually I love all the songs in this movie!!

fusakei

The chorus of this song plays on the title menu of the dvd so once when I was a kid my mum tried to play this but we were having some trouble so this played over and over again for like an hour and it got quite scary ngl hahahah

Guard Dog

Y'all wanna hear a shocker? Mitzi Gaynor is still with us, and apparently still working, at 90 years old.

cheneeamoi93

11y↑2

This song is beautiful!

Barry Jenkins

3y↑2

South Pacific the best musical ever, did y know it ran for 4 and half years in the dominion theatre london, mitzi was superb in the film, still love to watch it ,cheers from Barry new Zealand

Bobby Wimsy

I love it too and am patiently waiting to be washed or rinsed or whatever into some great dame's life! Cheers from America, in many ways the United States of Amnesia.

Ana Lorena Hidalgo

Love 💗 this movie so beautiful 🤩 and sweet!

Wendy Gahles

I sang this quickly today to a coworker whom we ALL want to see move on from a shit guy. Fast forward to later on when I'm home watching Call the Midwife, and what song comes on? This one! It was playing as the background song. So I found this and sent it to my friend.

Darne young

I should have had that song played at my husbands funeral 😂😂😂

Starseed 39

2y↑4

I absolutely love this song. I have since I was a little girl! When my kids were babies I used to sing this song to them while I was washing their hair LOL. The sound of my voice would mesmerizes them, and it made them smile. It made bathing them a whole lot easier when they didn't want to be bathed. 💜💜💜

Stephen Cowley

on what is Mitzi Gaynor's 90th Birthday this should be restored to it full length. I am told the full sequence does still exist as per the soundtrack recording what a present for Mitzi!

Broadway Classixs

The soundtrack exists. The film likely does not. Some of it may not even have been filmed.

lucythedog1000

12y↑3

I'm singing this for an audition soon, and I always think of one guy when I'm signing it!!!!

Irisheyes 490

7y↑162

When I was on Kauai I went to this beach, just wanted to see where this scene was filmed. Lumenhal Beach, quite a trek through a lot of deep sand to get to it but it was worth it. It was completely deserted when I finally got there. Just lovely and unchanged from when this scene was shot.

Irisheyes 490

6y↑1

? Sofia Broughton

Arnold Stollar

5y↑1

Irisfilmedon. Kauai at Hanalei. Plantation hotel, now Princeville.

Arnold Stollar

Filmed Kauai. Hanalei. Princeville resort.

Linda Balles

4y↑1

Lumahai Beach on Kauai.

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Greg Lee

3y↑1

When I was 13 y parents took me to see this movie. This scene convinced me that musicals are not just entertaining for adults. I liked it.

cinemabon

8y↑9

Great job cutting it together. Thanks for sharing. Now if someone would only restore the color in the scenes where Logan washed out the image, I'd be a lot happier.

Broadway Classixs

8y↑1

Here's my attempt to remove them - what do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koWLibh-ews

cinemabon

8y↑1

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love it. If it were in my power, I'd give you a million dollars and have you do a top notch job.

Ronald Alexander Rolleston

8y↑3

what's gracie's last name in the original south pacific movie with mitzi gaynor?

Janie Wilcox

11y↑5

I guess I'll have to sing this to my future child someday...hahaha

Anna

Carol Runham

4y↑1

A great musical

ebonumba12

12y↑173

To me, this song is like "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" in the 50s :)

Faye Kwnstantara

3y↑7

Yes, in the fifties my grandmother took me to the cinema to see this film. The film industry can't make anything to this standard now

🧿 Indigo Earth Angel 888 🧿

2y↑1

🤔🤭💯

Robin Dew

That's when movies were absolutely worth seeing. The women were absolutely fabulous back then.

Liberté

4y↑8

70 millimeters version stereophonic soundtrack, 6 tracks, the best ever! TechniColor copy! Merci beaucoup for this outstanding remastered rendition rendering rendez-vous,!

Livsbian222

12y

i saw a clip of this ages ago and didnt know about but wen mitzi started to sing i knew it was her straight away!

NEWTON FORREST JA.

10y↑10

I LOVE THIS SONG IT REMINDS ME OF MY MUM,SHE LOVED IT R.I.P. MUM LOVE YOU

Dave Boyes

me too

Eva

3y↑2

My mom just sent this to me.

A guy just friendzoned me before rejecting me all together. And my mom just decided to send this to me

Teresa

6y↑1

Encouraging. I needed this tonight.

Ellie Payne

11y

doing dressage to this song - can't stop humming it

Kelly Russell

12y↑1

who in the world could have washed that man out of their hair?!

Beth

10y

So, my school is doing South Pacific this year as our musical and I was going to audition. Would anybody have any suggestions as to what song I should audition with? I obviously want it to be similar to this ones soundtrack, but I'd rather not use one that's actually from South Pacific. Thanks so much!

Grey Poupon

10y↑1

try another rodgers and hammerstein one.

Kevin Morgan

5y↑1

Lol ok, so now I know the song I’ve been singing in the shower for 30 years and why my girlfriends always laugh at me after... lol one reason that is!

James McEwan

12y

Mitzi Gaynor has always been savaged by the critics for her role in this film, which I think is unfair, as she is excellent, having said that I prefer the Mary Martin recorded versions of this song and A Cockeyed Optimist

AdmrlLocke

10y↑2

It's too bad they cut some of this great song out of the movie. It's all in the soundtrack of the movie, or I would never even have known what I was missing.

gossamerwings

+AdmrlLocke that's because there's so much talking and singing with Emile before this song, they probably had to cut out some of this song. At least the next song Wonderful Guy, my favourite over this one, was sung completely.

Broadway Classixs

+gossamerwings No - read my note for the reason it was cut.

gossamerwings

+Broadway Classixs where is the added behind the scenes short? I remember the complete song Mary Martin sang in the 1949 original cast recording.

Broadway Classixs

+gossamerwings The black and white footage is from a behind-the-scenes featurette.

gossamerwings

+Broadway Classixs does it come on after this song as I didn't see it?

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Aphrodite2000

1y↑1

This song should be played after The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men!" 😄

Jorge Almeyda

Great musical.

N B

6y↑222

Best ‘just been dumped’ song ever? I think so.

Milby98

4y↑5

Nicholas Byrne my neighbour sang it in the garden at like 4am 😂😂😂

squeakybeak

3y↑1

I don't know... I love this but I think "Many a New Day" from Oklahoma takes the cake.

Ellen Holmshaw

3y↑1

@squeakybeak that’s where I came from 😃 glad I’m not the only one with that train of thought 🤣

Rebecca Servais

3y↑1

Evidently Rodgers and Hammerstein were good at writing just broke up songs

Liberté

An other example of 70 millimeters wide movie, a masterpiece!stereophonic sound and Technicolor rendering. BRAVO FOR this incredible spectacle, impossible nowadays, to much expensive in 70 millimeters and stereophonic sound no way. E

Your Local Broadcast

8y↑1

I was inspired to see this from Stairway to Stardom :D. This singer has a beautiful voice.

Sophie Jackson

11y↑1

I love singing this song in the shower... hahaha:)

Shoga

12y↑3

Hehehehe. This is the perfect breakup song. It's the first thing I thought of when ending a bad relationship the other day. =)

Suzanne Rose

she's got the absolute truth! Break it off, before it even starts. Hallelujah ! Drum him out of Your dreams! No more ringing my bell! Hasta baby--hit the road.

malp1

Also missing are the following lyrics: "If his eyes get dull and fishy when you look for glints and gleams, waste no time, make a switch, drop him in the nearest ditch. Rub him out of the roll-call and drum him out of your dreams."

Rehan

the setting is so beautiful

Allen Gumm

2y↑2

I agree with Oscar H.; the number does seem flat somehow. But I dunno--I don't think it had anything to do with the character shampooing her hair in a movie. A major problem, IMO, are the sudden cuts to the character on the horse. They draw focus from the number. And wouldn't it be more fun if Mitzi G. were prancing around and the camera was moving along with her? Here the camera is mostly static, and the performers seem confined by it.

On the other hand, maybe the camera should be completely static, and Mitzi and co. should just be filling up the confined space with their facial and vocal effusiveness, like Judy Garland and the chorus do in the glorious "The Trolley Song" in "Meet Me in St. Louis."

Liberté

5y↑5

In stereophonic soundtrack and cinemascope, a real Masterpiece NO way! Free week-end and gay songs like these, What a real pleasure! Waste no time and MUST listen To these no way! Real great new print in large wide screen! Emmanuel from Paris France

Bobby Wimsy

Do you know Anatole of Paris? See Danny Kaye in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(1946).

Hayley Grigg

8y↑317

mom used to sing this to me when I was little and gave me a bath and when I had nits haha

actavis999

8y↑5

+Hayley Grigg SAME

rosie jones

8y↑4

Same here! Only way she could get me to stop screaming to wash my hair!!

Alana Paton

8y↑4

I sing it to my three children my grandma wouldn't sing it to me X

Alana Paton

8y↑3

I sing it to my three children my grandma wouldn't sing it to me X

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Doug Calcaterra

12y

i love this song

cheneeamoi93

11y

The only movie by Rogers and Hammerstein I've seen is the sound of music. It's my fave movie of all time!

Stephen Cowley

Your missing a lot then many others to enjoy, although the stage shows are even better than the movies!

Jonathan Gordon

11y

I love this song

Tilly

I have to perform this as a solo next weekend

Interstate 20-11

3y↑11

There was also another part was never recorded: one about "dropping the man in the nearest ditch."

berean

Now I'd like that

abi reeve-jones

5y↑5

This has helped me through so many break ups

Jodie Campbell

5y↑242

"Cancel him" if only they knew back then that cancelling people would become so popular 😂

Malinda Smith

4y↑9

Jodie Campbell They did it but nobody called them on it. Blacks, Asians, islanders were all feared and discriminated against.

mcclanesolo

3y↑1

LOL

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Jennifer Wade

Trivia supposed factoid: prior to Broadway South Pacific it was generally assumed that washing one's hair too often impaired health. But after Mary Martin did this on stage 6-8xweek, attitudes changed. And, I suppose, shampoo companies rejoiced.

Catnap Gee

1y↑1

I was humming this song title trying to figure it out, what I interpreted was "i'm gonna wash that song right out of my head"

PicturePerfectMemori

I saw this on TV when I was like 6 or something and for some odd reason I always associated this with Blondie. Never looked it up until recently, so I've been mistaken for over 25 years. lol

TheKeenabob

We did this in HS. We actually had our actress wash her hair

fotomattx

9y↑67

I have always thought that truncating this song was a big mistake. It was more than a song, it is an early anthem for Feminism. The cut lyrics would have taken less than 90 seconds of screen time. I was hoping that the DVD with the Road show version (almost) would have this full number but it didn't. You are correct that the additional set of lyrics were never recorded at all. Richard Rodgers did not go to Hawaii for the production as he was ill in New York. Had he been there
the full song may have been kept in he film.

Stephen Cowley

Sadly I heard the opposite it was Richard Rodgers that had it cut, he also had cut the first version of the children singing dites-moi before the reprise with their father which you can hear on the soundtrack album, and before you see him having lunch with Nellie, apparently the European cut was more complete than even the Road show version was in the US my parents saw the European version at the Dominion Theatre in London and they said it was more complete than the US version.

Stephen Cowley

5y↑1

Apparently I have been told all the footage still exists of the complete version of this song as per the soundtrack album, it should there be put back into the film it was cut to produce the roadshow version as the original cut to this film runs over 3 hours

Name Watcher

3y↑1

Getting over a guy has nothing to do with feminism. Thats normal dating behavior.

Robert Wiegman

Joshua Logan's overly static direction didn't bring the vitality to the numbers that directors like Minelli, Sydney, Donen, even Robert Wise and Carol Reed brought with dolly ins and outs from full shots to medium shots when you can without missing action going on. If you notice they get a moving camera in whenever possible, including dropping from higher angles. Joshua Logan was a great drama director. He just didn't rise to the occasion like Robert Wise did.

lynemichelle

Reminds me of the old commercial “I’m gonna wash that gray right out of my hair”!

Bobby Wimsy

Song is ready made for Jan. 20.

Ari B

11y↑11

This song beats Taylor Swift any day. Thank goodness for the classics.

Lorna Phillips

8y↑55

Colonel Marcellus

6y↑1

I'm gonna wash that gray right outa my hair . . . hair color commercial from 1960s. Remember it?

CHUCK SCHAFER

I HAD TO GIVE A BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO A KID I HATED I SANG "I GOTTA WIPE MY ASS WITH A TWENTY DOLLAR BILL" TO THE SAME TUNE HAHA

Tilly

I love you thank you

justrosy5

Thank you!!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥

yelloworangered

That makes sense - washing hair onstage is a novelty - in a film - the woman just wants clean hair.

cance7984

11y

Better than the 2001 direct to T.V. remake.

Nicola Baker

I used this song instead of 'Happy Birthday' for my Covid handwashing routine. Still do.

A Krenwinkle

Mary Martin said later that she washed her hair four times a day on Saturday. First, when she got up in the morning. Second, the matinee show. Third, the night performance. Fourth, before bed. How'd she have any hair left?

Allysia

7y↑2

I have an audition for my school's production of this tomorrow!

ultrakool

12y↑1

i remember watching this as a young kid. i discovered the fairer sex as being enticing. but in the end...it's all show biz. women and men during warfare, don't mix. there, i said it. the south pacific is beautiful, in it's sheer elegance, tho

Mirielle Caradonna

What a bop

tlw1950

4y↑3

Never understood why one of the most well known songs in the score was so badly truncated in the film. I get so disappointed every time I watch it.

Mitch Hawkes

It's funny. Stage actress Mary Martin made the Nellie Forebush role sizzle on Broadway for years. Then curvaceous Mitzi copies the performance like an ape for the Hollywood film, and that is all people remember about this great South Pacific story.

Eisen J Eisen

That was very very cute!

Bianca Bregoli

anyone else listening to this still in 2018?

Broadway Classixs

266,000 views in the last year, so...yes.

AJ Write Mental

8y↑1

I used to watch the head and shoulders (or was it prell?) commercials when I was little, and never knew it was a song from an actual movie.

fud slush

8y↑2

It's from the 1949 show - the movie followed 9 years later :)

Stephen Cowley

Mary Martin actually used prell shampoo in the stage show in 1949 it was just coming out then she used it to make the lather suds

Amelia barrett

I love the song

mindeloman

Good movie and great cast. It's important to note. Robert Lecky was a marine wwii veteran that fought in 3 horrible campaigns in the pacific. He was wounded and shipped home. He married and became a newspaper writer. It was on a date with his wife they went to see the new movie south pacific. He sat and watched incensed. "This was not the war i remembered." people frolicking and singing on a island. It was a real war and millions died. He made a vow to write is story so the world will know. His book, "helmet for my pillow." is considered one of the best war memoirs ever written.

Broadway Classixs

5y↑1

His book was published in 1957. "South Pacific" did not premiere until 1958 - so this story could not be true.

mindeloman

@Broadway Classixs cynicism and absolutism is rampant in out society, today; and your reply is a case-in-point example of this. I'll admit, i got a few details wrong. But just because i may have gotten some things wrong doesn't mean it's absolutely impossibly not true, as you suggest. First, i misspelled his name. It's spelled, Leckie. Second, it was not the movie that inspired him. It was the actual broadway play he saw with his wife in 1951. He walked out halfway through, upset at such a fantasy idealistic vacation setting for war. He saw scores and scores of people die. He almost died from a shell explosion on Peleliu. He was a machine gunner in his squad. He was at the battle of tenaru river on Guadalcanal. He probably mowed down dozens of japanese with his machinegun. All this left a haunted man. He was afraid the true nature of the war would be forgotten and in 1951 he saw some of what he feared was coming true with the musical. If you need a reference i'll leave it below.

https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=273303