![]() It seemed like the right time to turn The Happiest Millionaire into a musical. Meanwhile, musicals such as Mary Poppins (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), and The Sound of Music (1965) were killing it at the box office. That play was based on a 1955 book called My Philadelphia Father written by Cordelia Drexel Biddle and Kyle Crichton. Disney bought the rights to the play but didn’t do anything with them for several years. The story had first been told in a Broadway play of the same name that premiered in 1956 starring Walter Pidgeon as Anthony Drexel Biddle. Drexel Biddle and his daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle. This movie-musical is (loosely) based on a true story and real people, namely, the life of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. So you don’t have to be a Blue Devil to enjoy it! (All of that will mean something once we get into the movie.) The Happiest Millionaire has a special place in my heart, and you can read my essay on that aspect of the film in Walter Magazine.īut it’s also a fun film because it stars two legends of the Golden Age, Fred MacMurray and Greer Garson, along with Gladys Cooper and Geraldine Page. I remember watching this movie in my freshman dorm room across the quad from the Biddle Music Building and the statue of Angier B. But I’m interested in it for another reason: the film is based on a true story that involves the Duke family for whom Duke University is named. This movie is mostly famous as the last live-action film that Walt Disney worked on before he passed away in December 1966. Via: Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own.
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