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Once Upon a Mattress (1964)
Directed by Joe Layton, Dave Geisel
“The Broadway hit comes to the small screen with its original star!”
Comedy, TV Movie, Music, Romance · 1h 30m
Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, this television adaption of the 1959 Broadway hit was videotaped in black and white in front of a live audience and featured Burnett, Bova, Gilford, and White from the original Broadway cast, as well as new principals Bill Hayes as the Minstrel, Shani Wallis as Lady Larken and Elliott Gould (in his first appearance on any screen) as the Jester. Due to the reduced running time of 90 minutes, several songs and scenes were either cut or shortened. The conflict concerning Sir Harry and Lady Larkin was downplayed so that they were married in secret.
Cast
Carol Burnett
Princess Winnifred
Jack Gilford
King Sextimus
Joseph Bova
Prince Dauntless
Elliott Gould
Jester
Shani Wallis
Lady Larken
Bill Hayes
Minstrel
Jack Fletcher
Wizard
Crew
- Director
- Joe Layton, Dave Geisel
- Writer
- Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller, Jay Thompson
- Producer
- Joe Hamilton
Details
- Release date
- 1964-06-03
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy, TV Movie, Music, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Bob Banner Associates