MGM's Into the Woods (1949)
Friday, January 2, 2015 at 3:30PM
NATHANIEL R in Into the Woods, Mashups, Old Hollywood

I don't know who made this time-travel brilliance or I would credit their awesomeness (please citizens o' the internet, credit your artwork!) but I got it from the New York Theater website and found it highly amusing. What if Into the Woods had been made by MGM circa 40 years before Stephen Sondheim wrote it!

If you're having trouble reading it the credits go like so...

Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Produced by Arthur Freed
Dances by Gene Kelly
Songs by Roger Edens
Screenplay by Betty Comden & Adolph Green

Starring...

Bette Davis as The Witch
Danny Kaye as The Baker
Judy Garland as The Baker's Wife 
Elizabeth Taylor as Cinderella
Gene Kelly as The Prince
Roddy McDowall as Jack
Margaret O'Brien as Little Red
Cesar Romero as The Wolf
Spring Byington as Jack's Mother
Jeanne Crain as Rapunzel
Frank Sinatra as The Other Prince
Rosalind Russell as Cinderella's Step-Mother
Anne Baxter and ______ (can't read it) as Cinderella's Step-Sisters
Marjorie Main as Granny
and
Katharine Hepburn as The Giant 

I basically love it but some of these people can't sing. I mean think of Bette Davis's croaking horror movie voice doing "Last Midnight". Yikes.

I dont know why but I burst out laughing when I got to Spring Byington as Jack's Mother. Brilliance. Though I think we can all agree that it was nice to see Tracey Ullman again in the here and now. 

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