1776 - Molasses To Rum

[elleng]

[Frasier Balzov]

1. 92-year-old John Cullum is still with us.

A native of Knoxville Tennessee.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191633/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Cool, Cool Conservative Men

was a minuet dance number from the original Broadway show, but it was cut from the movie release though it had been filmed. Story is, and I'm retelling this from memory, that Richard Nixon persuaded his friend Jack Warner to cut the number because it was too anti-conservative, after a White House preview. Supposedly Warner ordered all the films destroyed. But one survived, and it is included in the DVD version.

Richard M. Nixon. Film censor!

[markpkessinger]

4. Nixon didn't order the number to be cut4 from the film . . .

His staff ordered it to be cut from the performance of the musical at the White House, along with "Momma, Look Sharp" and "Cool, Cool Considerate Men." (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/01/1776-not-hamilton-is-musical-that-best-portrays-founders/ ).

Oh, and the minuet was "Cool, Cool, Considerate Men."

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The article you cite explicitly confirms my post:

"He even asked his longtime acquaintance Jack Warner — the staunchly Republican former president of Warner Bros. Studios and producer of the 1972 movie version of “1776”— to cut “Cool, Cool Considerate Men.” Warner not only made the cut but attempted to make it permanent by ordering his editor to shred the negatives of the scene."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/01/1776-not-hamilton-is-musical-that-best-portrays-founders/

[markpkessinger]

6. Right . . .

. . . He asked Warner to cut Cool, Cool Considerate Men. He did not ask Warner to cut Mollasses to Rum (or, if he did, Warner didn't oblige).

[The Blue Flower]

3. I've seen the movie and stage play

This was the most brilliant, chilling piece in a brilliant work.