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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 276421" data-attributes="member: 5079">I only know her from the musical THE OPPOSITE SEX, which ...is one of the worst movies of the decade.&nbsp; Remakes are rarely as good as the originals, but there&#039;s a special cinematic purgatory reserved those garish, overproduced, Technicolored remakes of earlier, better, B&amp;W comedies.&nbsp; Classics ranging from IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT,&nbsp; BALL OF FIRE, LIBELED LADY to THE PHILADELPHIA STORY got that treatment.&nbsp;&nbsp; None of these remakes are particularly good, but the remake of THE WOMEN is dismal.&nbsp; One of the oddities of these remakes is how great stars were replaced by mediocre ones*.&nbsp; Myrna Loy being replaced by Esther Williams?&nbsp;&nbsp; Virginia Mayo replacing Barbara Stanwyck?&nbsp; Sheesh.&nbsp; Yet none of them were as poorly cast as THE OPPOSITE SEX.&nbsp; 1956 was really June Allyson&#039;s year for being set up to fail.&nbsp; Not only did she try replacing Claudette Colbert in a poor remake of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, she got stuck in this dud.&nbsp; Comparing Collins to Crawford is like a pussycat next to a tigress.&nbsp; *I think HIGH SOCIETY is inferior to THE PHILADELPHIA STORY but, at least, the cast has sufficient star power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 276421, member: 5079"] I only know her from the musical THE OPPOSITE SEX, which ... is one of the worst movies of the decade. Remakes are rarely as good as the originals, but there's a special cinematic purgatory reserved those garish, overproduced, Technicolored remakes of earlier, better, B&W comedies. Classics ranging from IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, BALL OF FIRE, LIBELED LADY to THE PHILADELPHIA STORY got that treatment. None of these remakes are particularly good, but the remake of THE WOMEN is dismal. One of the oddities of these remakes is how great stars were replaced by mediocre ones*. Myrna Loy being replaced by Esther Williams? Virginia Mayo replacing Barbara Stanwyck? Sheesh. Yet none of them were as poorly cast as THE OPPOSITE SEX. 1956 was really June Allyson's year for being set up to fail. Not only did she try replacing Claudette Colbert in a poor remake of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, she got stuck in this dud. Comparing Collins to Crawford is like a pussycat next to a tigress. *I think HIGH SOCIETY is inferior to THE PHILADELPHIA STORY but, at least, the cast has sufficient star power. [/QUOTE]

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