"LOSE THAT LONG FACE".....

From "The Judy Room":

Complete original version with
Judy Garland and Monette Moore

This video presents, for the first time ever, the newly discovered complete version of Lose That Long Face featuring the original footage.

The Lose That Long Face musical number in A Star Is Born was originally filmed in March 1954 by uncredited director Jack Donohue. The film’s principal director, George Cukor, reshot the sequence in May 1954.

The intent was to show the filming of a typical movie musical number, with star “Vicki Lester” (Judy Garland) flubbing her lip synch and then starting over. Jazz singer Monette Moore provided a quick vocal in a section of the number that was deleted prior to the film’s premiere.

Although most the film footage of the 28 seconds of cut material survived, the audio was thought to be lost for over sixty years. Garland collector Rick Smith purchased an acetate playback disc of the song which turned out to be the original version with the missing 28 seconds.

Restored and remastered by John H. Haley in 2015, this rare acetate gives us a brand new, previously unheard, “extended cut” of Lose That Long Face featuring more of Ira Gershwin’s wonderful lyrics, as it was originally intended to be heard.

This newly restored acetate is available on the new 2-CD set from JSP Records, Judy Garland Sings Harold Arlen.

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Watching this several times, it appears the release version (Haver's reconstruction) was edited down from this original footage.

I find it very interesting.

I love the way those kids dance with Judy. She and they seem to have a genuine rapport.