How NOT to Adapt a Musical: Pal Joey (1957)

By the time Pal Joey made it to the screen 17 years after its Broadway debut, it looked very different. Here's why the Frank Sinatra film doesn't quite hit the mark. Sources: --Ewen, David. 1957. Richard Rodgers. New York: Holt. 1957. --Lindberg, Julianne. “Adapting Pal Joey: Postwar Anxieties and the Playmate” The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations. Oxford University Press. 2019 --McNally, Karen. When Frankie Went to Hollywood : Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity University of Illinois Press, 2008. --Mordden, Ethan. The Hollywood Musical. St. Martin’s Press, 1981. --Rodgers, Richard. 1975. Musical Stages : An Autobiography. Random House. 1975. --Sennett, Ted. 1985. Hollywood Musicals. Abradale Press. 1985. #filmhistory #franksinatra #classichollywood #ritahayworth #genekelly #singingintherain #musicals #myway #videoessay #moviemusicals #rodgersandhammerstein #film #oscars #snowwhiteremake #snowwhite