"How to Succedd in Business ..." - A Secretary Is Not a Toy 1967

[@richardfuchs3690]

It's sad that Tucker Smith never had a bigger career. He also turned up in Hello Dolly in a very small part. He was one of the best elements of WSS with a magnetic personality and incredible dancing skills.

[@aaliyahmariesouthwood2933]

R.I.P Tucker Smith 🙏🏾❤️

[@thomasleary2814]

Wow! I didn’t realize that that was the same guy who played “Ice” in WSS until you pointed it out and then I went back to look at this number again! Cool! (Pun intended!).

[@BryanBounds]

Just discovered his tremendous work in West Side Story. What an incredible performer and with a powerful presence.

[@PungiFungi]

Just watch Tucker Smith dance during the "Mambo" dance off between the Jets and Sharks in WSS, one can easily see he was the best male dancer of all of them.

[@klausweasley]

"MAD MEN" The musical! :)

[@erinesque1889]

This is a Fosse musical that I have not yet seen. I really need to!

[@leslieawest5062]

Love this great old Classic Movie!!

[@147mcrfan147]

I actualy love the fashion in this :p I wish i was alive in the 60s :p Without a doubt my favourite musical ever :D

[@leslieawest5062]

Great number, I really loved this movie, great cast, very entertaining.

[@SirCarl_XVIII]

I bought a cassette player from a guy the other week. There was a tape still in it when I got home. This was the only thing on it. Gave me heaps of laughs when this came on. Thanks AJ!!!

[@TheWicknator70]

Employee: "I hate causal musical Mondays."

[@peteradaniel]

Fosse, Fosse, Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! He must have done this one scene himself. Beautiful!

[@thomasleary2814]

I believe Bob did the original choreography on Broadway.

[@CarrotAtHeart]

Love this musical!

[@searchanddiscover]

very ironic since robert morse went on to play in mad men and well we all know their stance with secretaries....

[@raybo1018]

I can't believe that one time many years ago, a local station was airing this movie and cut this scene out completely! It was one of the best parts of the film! Thanks for posting.

[@rr7firefly]

Andre Previn was right when he said (based on his many years in the movie business) that taps are put into the movie soundtrack afterward. "It's the only way to get clean taps," he said.

[@PungiFungi]

Today, April 24th, would have been Tucker's 74th birthday. Happy birthday, Tucker! RIP :-(

[@pebblywon]

I love this choreography so much!

[@Purseiner]

Tucker Smith is my uncle. Sadly he is no longer with us. We all miss him very much.

[@rbianca1]

Sending love! He was so great!

[@MPHknows]

To everyone who thinks this song is sexist, it is, in a way. Not by direct words, because they ARE saying that women are NOT toys, but the tone. To anyone who is trying to claim the whole play is sexist, I understand where you're coming from. But my highschool recently put on this play and my drama teacher started explaining his view on what message the play was trying to show when it came to the women. He said that he thinks that they were the answer to "How to succeed in business without even trying". He said that, if you really pay attention to everyone, it seems like all of the guys (excluding Ponty in some scenarios) didn't really know what they were doing. It was the girls who were doing most of the work that you were shown. And he said that, if you think about how everything happened, the only reason most of the issues Ponty had got fixed were because of the women in the play. So, yeah, the character dynamic is sexist, but it's like the play itself is trying to show how much women in some businesses were the only reasons they kept running.

[@davidlehman6747]

Damn fine song -- great choreography.

[@BeckyIB]

A sweet celebration of vintage, and an interesting contrast to Mad Men's different vision of the same time frame.

[@arober9758]

Wow!!

[@PungiFungi]

Yes, he is very recognizable, because he is so tall. He was underrated.

[@Theonesymone]

if you watched west side story you'll notice that there's two of cast members in there one is, of course the great tucker smith and there's another one i can't remember his name but he was once of jet's. just watch the part where they made fun of the cop, you'll see who i'm talking about. he's the one with the light jacket with the big old patch on it.

[@WinstonRed]

i would like to work at this office.

[@myshoesbepimpin]

My school did this for their musical lol they did a great job XD

[@TheLittleFrenchy2]

Never knew Smith was in this ! So Bud has a minor part in WSS and Ice appears in How to Succeed... Cool :D

[@lafleurquicache]

true!

[@laminage]

Sometimes people forget that How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, The Best Of Everything and even Down With Love could have been The Prototype for Mad Men. Hard to believe that Robert Morse was in This Musical then Mad Men.

[@benthesane]

Doesn't he sort of play the same character in a way? Just a little older?

[@mortelli7]

They're Paris Originals. :)

[@PungiFungi]

@weirdoinchains, actually Tucker went back to the stage after West Side Story, in fact he was involved in a lot of WSS productions several years after the movie.

[@zimmawoman]

uber cool

[@peteradaniel]

@The1962driftingaway He came back to supervise and choreograph some of the numbers, and I think it especially shows in this one. His style is unmissable.

[@Clandesdyne]

Smitty is the original hipster. :D

[@PungiFungi]

@hotwriter36 , I saw that A-Team episode on the web, it was really more of a cameo. Also, check out the Police Squad! DvD. You can see him in the background in the first, second and sixth episodes.

[@ryoushii]

Apparently nobody from Mad Men ever saw this musical on Broadway in 1961, to go from the antics on that show.

[@awilensky]

This is where "Mad Men" the TV series came from.

[@agenttheater5]

i can't believe he got degraded from ice i west side story to this!!!

[@4021971]

Tucker Smith would have had a great career. The studio had great plans for him, but he was openly gay and there went his career. The guy was electrifying in WSS. What a waste of a great talent.

[@withonelook1985]

Bob Fosse AND Mary Blair... now how bad could that be...

[@rivertam42]

This reminds me of Mad Men

[@mljules]

I love how square this is supposed to be

[@WinterWonder99]

@xXRIeRIe0301Xx Haha I sang it thats why its my fave line lol. So your Miss Krumholtz?? Cool I had fun playing her! What is your costume like?? How are you going to play her?

[@The1962driftingaway]

I know that Bob Fosse did the original choreography for the Broadway production--did he have anything to do with the film version?

[@WinterWonder99]

Awww they cut out my favorite line haha "A Secretary is not a pet, nor an erectorset!" Maybe they felt it was too risque or something haha.

[@StubbornCanary]

@kevforr Is that good or bad? Or just a neutral remark? :P

[@chocolatesouljah]

Which one is Tucker Smith?

[@jetfire851]

2:05 Movie, you're trying to convince me that Charles Nelson Reilly is straight. It isn't working.

[@DorisDayFanatic]

That's not Charles Nelson Reilly, though he was in the OBC.

[@chocolatesouljah]

Exactly!

[@emilydavis8509]

has anyone else noticed all the secretaries are wearing the same shoes?

[@xXRIeRIe0301Xx]

@WinterWonder99 hah i

[@goombakiwi]

I'm reading the comments about how this song is "sexist"? I'm not seeing it. It delivers an anti-sexist message.

[@MsDancergurl]

i think they mean pad as in house.

[@VintageWhistles]

They just dont make them like they used to!

[@PungiFungi]

@matkapolka2222, Police Squad! is now on DvD.

[@Autostade67]

For the younger folk: yes, yes, yes, the early 60s - the fifties even - were not unaware of the crass monoculture of big business and corporate capital - but at least they had a sense of humour about it as both HTSIBWRT and 'the Apartment' clearly show. We've become so damn serious about everything. Both of these 'artifacts', through wry humour, tell a cynical truth about American life: it's not a meritocracy, it's about how you play the game and who you use play to play it and damn the fall out and collateral damage.

[@N0NC0mmital]

Am I the only one enthralled by stuffy-looking business men leaping about and singing whilst in suits?

[@ObligatoryPun]

What's his number?

[@richardfuchs3690]

It's a fun musical number and a sly dig at the casual sexism of the time. It's wrong to try to apply modern understandings of gender to something done so long ago.

[@elmolly93]

@lovely1833 so is mine :D

[@Nyssasaralee]

@The1962driftingaway im pretty sure that he did ... just like he had every thing to do with the coreo for damn yankees the film ..:)

[@17tmntfan]

2:29-2:43 wtf 0.o

[@judycadana]

you need to hear 'Brotherhood of Man' before you say that

[@MegaAstrodude]

Nope. Blacks have had a huge influence on pop culture since the early 1800s, when slavery was in full swing. They just didn't get credit for it until around the 1960s.

[@kevforr]

this play is clearly before black people had any influence on American culture.

[@WHQODJYSingers]

Oh, like none of this goes on today ... puleeze, what world do you live in? Besides, most secretaries are being replaced by business men's notebooks and ipads.

[@searchanddiscover]

what? they didn't do anything offensive to the black woman in the video...

[@flaggerify]

Leave out the race rubbish and just enjoy the number.

[@natgowild]

sexist or WHAT?!

[@michellemabelleobamalamash7653]

Very gay choreography.

[@notchuckproductions5029]

It is pretty happy