I'll Never Say No

The Unsinkable Molly Brown starring:
Debbie Reynolds
Harve Presnell
Ed Begley

[@TheSavageBreast]

Possibly the most romantic, unreasonable and destructive relationship premise -- but my all time favorite song.

[@55jimott]

I agree wholeheartedly! My favorite scene in the whole movie! Possibly my favorite scene of all movies! 💖

[@rubyslippers-cn1wj]

My favourite movie of all time too and I agree with you 💝💝💝💝

[@karenscott7946]

My favorite movie

[@karenscott7946]

Filmed in my hometown Telluride

[@jackiemcmeekin6551]

Harve Presnell has an iconic baritone voice. He sings with passion and so much energy! “Unsinkable Molly Brown” is a great movie. 🥰

[@nancyholohan5363]

I was just a kid but I fell in love this movie & this song my whole life. Musicals Are Magic❤️❤️❤️

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Wow! A stunning guy with a voice that reaches the moon! Never to be surpassed. Thank you, Harve and Debbie. ❤😊

[@shana.s4755]

The lyrics are simple but his singing makes my heart flutter. its hard not to fall in love when someone is pouring out they heart like this...

[@jackiemcmeekin6551]

A beautiful, romantic song with meaningful words. Harve Parnell is a great baritone. “Unsinkable Molly Brown” is a wonderful movie. Debbie Reynolds is also great star in it!

[@BeatlesFanSonia]

This is the most romantic song ever!

[@raymondgood6555]

Many thanks, Johannes Brahms

[@michelleishappy4036]

What an incredible voice Harve Presnell had!!!

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Pity about the terrible hairpiece. And hers. In the film you can't take your eyes off the wigs.

[@jackiemcmeekin6551]

Harve has such a great voice. I love the musical, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”!

[@pamtebelman2321]

Me, too, this song is gorgeous, romantic ,and beautifully sung.

[@debyshipton3080]

Love this song cause my husband used to sing it to me❣️

[@roberttippett3733]

He stopped singing?

[@jorgepeppertrees6612]

Waiting for someone to be ready vs forcing it, but he never left her alone lol. Perfect song for someone who feels mutually.

[@TahtahmesDiary]

@@roberttippett3733 Might have passed on. A lot of fans of these musicals are older 💜

[@roberttippett3733]

@@TahtahmesDiary Aww!

[@billhause]

I san it to my wife too. whenever she heard it she told me, "this song reminds me of you." rip myra 2019

[@TahtahmesDiary]

So romantic, yet sexy and yet sweet all at once! Such a precious scene 🥰

[@dot-hubbard-i-luv-my-beretta]

❤️I have the same chills , I haven't felt for years, and had when I first heard this song, and this performance, so so many years ago.❤️

[@jar8425]

This is one of my favorite songs, in one of my all-time favorite movies. Sung by the incomparable Harve Presnell.

[@Grapesforbananas]

It's so hard to resist his love!! :)

[@lorilarsen3447]

I fell for this movie when it was shown on TV and I was about 12. I cried so much near the end - when she comes into the room and sees the bed and then....

[@mrrossification]

me too! I was 12 years old and it was the first time I cried in a movie like that ,during that scene

[@tonitaylor-wuenschel8012]

RIP Debbie~ Heaven has another angel tonight

[@nicholadingalls8447]

Its mom here, I'm 39, seen it when 7 ❤ still🎉

[@dianavictoriaaljadeff8949]

Oneof the best all time Broadway baritones with Alfred Drake,John Raitt,Robert Goulet and Bruce Yarnell

[@janwintz8372]

Hi Diane, Well said! Absolutely loved the great Alfred Drake (the beautiful KISMET!) This song, sung by the exquisite Harve Presnell and in this beautiful setting, is killingly gorgeous!!! If for no other reason, I watch THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN just to hear Harve Presnell sing "I'll Never Say No". What a beautiful, beautiful voice! And what a beautiful, beautiful melody and LYRIC! KISMET is one of my very favorite musicals! Loved the beautiful voice of Doretta Morrow ("Stranger In Paradise", "This Is My Beloved"!!!) Love every song from KISMET!

[@raymondgood6555]

Presnell makes them all sound like amateurs

[@vincejelineo748]

Absolutely....

[@CharlieChilders-wm9gb]

Yes, I agree, except for John Raitt​@@raymondgood6555

[@annan9216]

Love this scene in the movie! Molly falls in love with him and so does he! 😍😍😍😘😘

[@Blissedx]

Still one of my favorite movies 🤎 Get you a man like Johnny Brown 🤎

[@personanon-grata5083]

I play this song for my cat, because she's my best friend. She's my only friend actually. A weird old lady and her cat. You've heard the story a million times. I love this song.

[@angelocruz172]

This song makes me wanna fall in love!! XD

[@janwintz8372]

Isn't it GORGEOUS!!!

[@karenryan78]

The first time I heard this amazing beautiful heartfelt song so long ago, I was totally mesmerized by the words as well as HIM and that VOICE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❗❗❗❗

[@jackiemcmeekin6551]

Debbie Reynolds convinced the director that she could play Molly Brown. She was fantastic in the part! Funny and great acting in the part! Thank you so much, “Parker Richardson” for the lyrics. 🥰

[@merrileebauman8941]

You probably know, they (the director and the producer) wanted Shirley MacLaine for Molly Brown in the movie. Debbie was so much better in it than Shirley would have been, there is almost no comparison. But, Shirley was under contract to Hal Wallis and he wouldn't let her out of her contract to do "Molly" for MGM (meaning MGM risked a lawsuit with Hal Wallis if Shirley signed to do the picture for MGM), so MGM finally, finally, finally offered the part to Debbie, who had been trying to, as you said, convince them she was right for the part ever since she saw it on Broadway, (at the suggestion of Marge Champion, who suggested Debbie see it because Marge thought Debbie was right for the part). The director tried to get Debbie to turn down the part even after MGM offered it to her, and through the first part of filming, the director didn't have faith that Debbie knew how to play the part correctly. BUT, after the rushes started coming in, he saw that she had been right all along, and was (as I think) doing a great job. The reason not more is made of the sinking of the Titanic in "Unsinkable" (which I have seen people point out) is that MGM kept cutting "Unsinkable's" budget due to their filming of "Dr. Zhivago," (being filmed in Europe), which was running way over budget, so they kept cutting "Unsinkable's" budget to give more to "Dr. Zhivago." I probably wouldn't care much about this movie at all if Shirley MacLaine had played Molly. It would be forgettable to me, except for Harve Presnell. (To me, to think of Harve Presnell playing the leading man to Shirley MacLaine in this movie sounds like a travesty).

[@kennethwayne6857]

@@merrileebauman8941 Agree with most of what you've said but I honestly don't think Shirley would have been so terrible. Remember how good she was in 'Sweet Charity'? At least I thought so. But you're right, Debbie and Harve together are incredible. Wish I could have seen them when they played 'Annie Get Your Gun' onstage together in the mid-'70's, directed by Gower Champion. I did see him play it in New York but by then his Annie was Lucie Arnaz who was very good.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

The plan was to have more songs from the show in the film, but as was said above, the budget ran out and songs were dropped. So they kept on repeating the same songs over and over again. They almost lost He's My Friend too, but the crew got together with the cast and they filmed it in a day. Apart from Belly Up To The Bar Boys which is terrific if you can find the original number before they cut bits of it out for television - but apart from that, it's not a very good film. And not a good score either.

[@MiaHessMusic]

What a voice!

[@raymondgood6555]

Presnell had the greatest voice of any movie star!!

[@raymondgood6555]

Melody courtesy of Johannes Brahms

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Yes. Meredith Willson had a habit of doing that. Obviously after The Music Man he really had exhausted his small talent.@@raymondgood6555

[@christiewilley7677]

I will miss you so much and Carrie. I am so glad you could be together!!!

[@TheLuellaNetwork]

My heart...love him so much lol

[@parkerrichardson3099]

I'll never say no to you, Whatever you say or do, If you ask me to wait for a lifetime. You know I'll gladly wait For a lifetime or two Just to look at you. I'll smile, when you say "Be Glad," I'll weep if you want me sad. Today is tomorrow If you want it so. I'll stay or I'll go, But I'll never say no..

[@monaclifton4862]

This classic film i is a tour de force, the performances are electric ⚡️ E still my heart ,blessed to be married to the love of my life,Gregory Hudson! 42 years April 17,2018,he never says ,”no”!

[@monaclifton4862]

Sorry typo ,senior moment lol,be still my heart!

[@catnipnbone]

I love this movie and have been looking for this! Thanks so much for posting it! Great song, great singer and such a good movie! :)

[@beh4846]

I love this song and always will. Thanks!

[@GwenEams]

I remember watching thi with my mom when I was around 12. It's on TCM atm so I sent a link of this to friend who is working today so she can watch with me. Thanks for the post.

[@robertbutler8004]

Those were the same words my sister-in-law always said I'll never say no.

[@georgehewett5539]

Would love to have seen Tammy Grimes reprise her Broadway role in the film version.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

If you'd seen Tammy Grimes do it on Broadway you might not say that. She gave the most mannered, irritating performance ever. And she couldn't dance.

[@reenster1953]

great song

[@karlakerr9267]

This would've had me for life 🥰

[@ashjac0009]

You can't say yes to everything. There are times you're gonna have to say no.

[@fannylablanche9952]

trop mignon :)

[@SeanMcGibbon]

wonderful

[@MrCristoforoantonio]

It's funny, but I really didn't like this musical at first. It had to grow on me. But Harve Presnell and Debbie Reynolds are fantastic!!!!

[@goodtrubble9688]

That's Enteriainmemt!

[@MisKChief]

😍

[@dw-ul9rq]

Beauty

[@zarkus6]

The melody of this is in the second movement of the Brahms Horn concerto!

[@janwintz8372]

I'm fascinated to learn this, Mark! I look forward to hearing the Brahms horn concerto with this beautiful, beautiful melody! I love Brahms' 3rd Symphony! It's one of my favorite classical works (after Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, the gorgeous fourth movement!!) On another "note"!, I read a cute quote from the great, great Bennett Cerf: "The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost." !!!!

[@swarze]

Actually, it is the second movement of the Brahms Horn TRIO, and the trio is played in a minor key. But YES! Definitely a similar tune.

[@raymondgood6555]

He actually wrote it as a piano piece when he was about 20, later turned it into his horn trio

[@melissamiller4576]

I got to watch this movie again except this time with my boyfriend

[@sobrietysociety]

The Unsinkable Molly Brown 🤍🖤

[@reenster1953]

great sibg

[@rocketmom60]

He doesn't look like the same man that sang Mariah in Paint Your Wagon.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

That's because in this film he was wearing a seriously bad wig. In Paint Your Wagon I think he lost it.

[@melaniecagle4348]

hajahe in this house crystal seems to run shit but lol who knows

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Dreadful song but he was a terrific singer. Unfortunately he sings it so often in the film you never want to hear it again.

[@fannylablanche9952]

Harve PRESNELL sing it at 70 years in duo with his daugter Etoile Ruby >>> on YT !!

[@sobrietysociety]

The Unsinkable Molly Brown 🤍🖤