I'll Plant My Own Tree

Helen Lawson's fire-spitting rendition of I'll Plant My Own Tree

[@Vitruvius123]

The best camp is camp that doesnt know it's camp. I loved this entire movie in all its glorious terribleness.

[@skreety0455]

Wonderfully gloriously showbiz! Ouch!

[@michaelmiller1215]

“Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls” (1970) is a CAMPY TERROR! But definitely worth watching!

[@drs.suzanavanoortsugito1455]

I love Susan Hayward movies. Susan Hayward was a great and talented actress. Her legacy will always be remembered...

[@itsjohn2000]

"Off stage I hate her, but on stage I am madly in love with her." One of the ten best (as in awful) lines in this guilty pleasure of a movie.

[@bkynbiker19]

Not to mention the look that Parkins gives him when he says it. Like -- "seriously?" ..

[@brunosalada7790]

such an obvious cheap judy dig

[@bkynbiker19]

Actually the character is based on Ethel Merman. And yes I am aware Judy was originally cast in the role @@brunosalada7790

[@ilovebarbra2]

@@bkynbiker19 She's like are you hearing and seeing what I'm hearing and singing?

[@arbitraryvegetarian9881]

@@bkynbiker19 Or the "look" could mean, "Oh, God. Not another gay one."

[@zzzbbbooo]

I actually love this! It's 60s glamour and how can you not love the late, great Susan Hayward?

[@DJHuk]

Especially without the wig.

[@brucekrause2801]

Can't get the song out of my head.....MM I'll plant my....stop it!!!

[@elizabethali8090]

This is priceless! Susan Hayward had guts to do this role! It's hysterical!

[@jamesryan6008]

Imagine how Judy Garland ( who was the original choice but was fired). Or Joan Crawford or Bette Davis ( both of whom were considered).

[@vinista256]

Not only did she bail out the production by agreeing to do it after they cruelly exploited Judy Garland (who was not in any condition to do it at the time) for publicity; Susan set as a condition for taking the role that Judy be paid in full, as if she had finished the project (which SHE only agreed to because she desperately needed the money).

[@akrenwinkle]

@@vinista256 If anyone noticed Susan Hayward making some exaggerated moves when walking, it's because she had a left wooden leg. She had done a film with John Wayne called "The Conqueror" and unbeknownst to the cast and crew, there had been nuclear testing at the remote desert site of the filming. Hayward began having leg problems half a year later, and it turned out to be a tumor, requiring amputation. Even keen movie-goers couldn't spot the prosthetic leg in Susan's later films. When Judy Garland found out that Susan refused to play Helen Lawson unless Judy was paid her full fee of $75,000, Judy arranged a lunch date at KFC, an unusual choice, but both ladies were down to earth. Since no alcohol was served there, Judy brought a thermos of Pepsi and vodka. Susan cracked, "Who do you think you are, Joan Crawford?" Each lady had a hearty laugh. Judy asked Susan "Is there anything I can do to repay your kindness?" Ever the classy dame, Susan didn't want a gift. She lifted the hem of her dress and said, "Sign my leg, honey." And Judy did! It saddens my heart to know that this kind of humanity no longer exists in today's Hollywood, all selfishness and cutthroat jealousy.

[@curlytoes22]

Unfortunately this movie/novel was too much like Garland’s life, and she was too drugged up and unhealthy to perform

[@skreety0455]

I love it! Susan could rock the Helen Lawson character. She knew the "business".

[@TheKissyfer]

This is one of my favorite scenes in VOTD :-). LOVE the colorful 60's mobile...so groovy! Sorry/Not Sorry ;-)

[@DJHuk]

Don't get me wrong, I love it too. It's just that it's ... uh ... bad.

[@leprechaunstud582]

@@DJHuk Bad, tacky, and doll inducin'!

[@ClarenceFisher]

@@leprechaunstud582 All of the above

[@markseiffert2731]

Margaret Whiting did the singing for Susan Hayward. Shame Judy Garland was fired from this movie. Patty Duke (who played Neely O’Hara) remembered that the director Mark Robson treated Judy horribly. Judy sang the song from the movie the following year at the Palace in 1967, perfect form, great voice, I’ll Plant My Own Tree”.

[@rick0e295]

Absolutely love this! So indicative of Broadway of the time. Believe this was Susan's final film role and Margaret Whiting voiced over this number. 🏆

[@jamesryan6008]

It wasn't Susan Hayward's final role. She made four or five more.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@jamesryan6008 Susan made 1 more film and did some TV work.

[@jackjules7552]

After her appearance in Valley of the Dolls Miss Hayward was forced out of the motion picture business and fled to Vegas to perform for drunks every night. In between she managed to do a TV movie here and there.@@akrenwinkle

[@paulmicheldenverco1]

That's Newhaven...off, off, off Broadway.

[@rick0e295]

@@paulmicheldenverco1 So, New Haven was not just All About Eve? 😉 What an Addison DeWitt!

[@johnflynn9619]

Susan was Sensational. Paul Burke was Very Underrated.

[@johnsax1445]

A glorious time capsule of that gloriously gaudy year 1967, before everything went to hell a year later.

[@richardfisher671]

The campiest film I've ever seen and this scene is about as campy as it gets. I love it.

[@jackjules7552]

So campy that Miss Hayward had to flee Hollywood after VOTD was released and ended up performing for drunks every night in Las Vegas with the occasional B movie mixed in.

[@flipsyboy]

Why couldn't they have wiped all the fingerprints off the Plexiglass pics of the mobile?

[@ClarenceFisher]

Wasn't in the budget

[@ilovebarbra2]

@@ClarenceFisher Endust and rags would have put it over .

[@uillchi]

In my fantasy, the plexiglass shatters when she hits the high note in "grow" and shards rain down on the audience

[@johnfd0210]

I like it!!!

[@johnzaragoza8576]

@@johnfd0210 I always thought a great Halloween costume would be great for a drag queen with someone carrying the mobile behind her and it keeps knocking her on the head and makes her dizzy!

[@crankenstein70]

and cuts the audience to shreds...LAWSON'S REVENGE

[@skreety0455]

Why not? Susan broke the glass ceiling before any other real broad ever tried.

[@PrincessofPower84]

I love this movie!

[@BSted-lm3mx]

Gaygasm. My go to when I need to battle.

[@abcbatman1966]

Martin Short once joked about this scene: "If this is the take they used, what did the outtakes look like?"

[@alanellaway5489]

Yeah ...that GREAT STAR Martin Short dishing a truly Great Star!

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

Probably better shots... Robson doesn't want naturalism but theatricality...

[@chrudolf]

Hey, we're supposed to be in 1967. This movie seems to happen in a parallel world where nobody has heard about the Beatles or the Byrds.

[@maxalberts2003]

Or anything.

[@georjajim]

Urbanguy, not true. Susan sang all the songs in "I'll Cry Tomorrow"…not dubbed. Ganjastu….FYI, Judy was fired due to her drug issues and not showing up. THe producer called Susan and asked her to step in as a favor to him. She said she would do it, but that Judy had to be paid full salary. Susan knew how Hollywood had used and abused Garland, and she would have no part of it…pretty classy, I'd say.

[@glenconmc]

Judy only got half salary and one costume, the famous paisley pant suit. It was nice that Susan tried for her though. Patty Duke said the director was the meanest SOB she ever worked with and wasn't very nice to Judy. Barbara Parkins said she did one scene with Judy and she was lovely.

[@AnteoTesila]

Honestly, it would have been very sad to see Judy in that role. Hellen Lawson was the representation of her life and how Hollywood destroys talents and makes them decadent

[@anthonyL1995]

AnteoTesila actually Neely is the representation of her life. More so in the original book but it is very obvious Neely is Judy.

[@AnteoTesila]

@@anthonyL1995 That´s true!! i remember the preparation sequence. is Judy´s life. Poor girl :(

[@anthonyL1995]

AnteoTesila Yeah, Hellen is supposed to be Ethel Merman. Who played Annie Oakley on Broadway as well as Rose in Gypsy among other things. Judy was originally cast in the movie version of Annie get your gun before being fired there too. Supposedly she was freaked out she wouldn’t be able to live up to Ethel. I think that’s what got her fired from her studio.

[@josephdebow]

Love this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@virtualworlddisorderrealit1848]

Thank god Judy didn't sing this dreadful mobile noise, thank god for Helen Lawson the audience was hearing impaired! She's so appropriately dressed for tree planting!

[@hotmarriedgays]

everyone in this movie contorts their body into weird poses while they sing. literally not one thing in this movie resembles planet earth.

[@shanedeleon5376]

I wonder how many times she got hit with a floating plexiglass blob during the filming of this scene

[@leprechaunstud582]

She kept the insurance company in jitters!

[@mjbaz1]

This sounds like the kind of song someone would croon on a Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy telethon.

[@bdh70]

Bless her heart

[@jerryspyratos2458]

Great sound.

[@edwardmiller9549]

Hayward should have won the Academy Award for this, at least in the supporting category. The winner that year, Estelle Parsons, failed to make her role in Bonnie & Clyde as iconic as Hayward did with Helen Lawson. Lawson is to Hayward what Scarlet O'Hara is to Vivien Leigh and what Mildred Pierce is to my dear friend Joan Crawford.

[@windstorm1000]

+Edward Miller well---parsons deserved it--Hayward was so bad she was good--there's a difference there.....

[@TotzkeMike]

You're nuts! ;-)

[@DJHuk]

If Forrest Gump can win Oscars, then yes, certainly that's the case.

[@waynehentley4332]

Rubbish!!

[@samm321]

Great clip. Thanks for posting it. Favorite line: "Off stage I hate her, but on stage I'm madly in love with her." Barbara Parkins looks like she's on drugs while listening to Margret Whitting's voice come out of Susan Hayward.

[@edwardmiller9549]

Well the movie is really about drug abuse so they got Hayward to drive everyone who saw this to drugs.

[@ilovebarbra2]

@@edwardmiller9549 I never used drugs, never thought about it until after I saw this scene and thought they would help me forget.

[@petermcdonald1744]

Well, at least the "Helen Lawson/Hit The Sky" headline isn't spinning, or piles of newspapers thrown out of trucks onto the sidewalk and torn-open by newsboys in those big, tweed caps,or flashing across Times Square in those blinking red bulbs, all vintage Warner Bros. style,

[@DJHuk]

Entertainment Weekly once called it "the worst song ever" in its DVD review of the movie. I always maintained it was "Having My Baby" but I'm willing to stand corrected.

[@ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

This song is lovely...Having my Baby is a nightmare.

[@DJHuk]

Even after Anka retitled it Having Our Baby, it was still a nightmare. @@ITSFULLOFSTARS1

[@maxalberts2003]

@@Bittersweet.Symphony. What were you expecting, Lee Marvin?

[@jamescarrington5521]

Oh, but that same tune when sung by the original actor to play Helen Lawson, Judy Garland...damn! The powerful way that Judy Garland finishes this song is, well....almost as legendary as Judy was herself. Only the audio exists now, unfortunately.

[@johnflynn9619]

In my opinion Margaret Whiting sung it better than Garland. Garland was a Great Talent. RIP But, the song just didn't fit her.

[@erinjohnson1124]

Judy’s version makes me want to plant a whole forest. Phenomenal!

[@ruthiehenshallfan99]

I have no idea if this is awfully amazing or amazingly awful.

[@Wsaetre]

It is both. That’s what makes it so outrageous and exciting all at once.

[@jackanthony976]

It is what it is.....

[@gsolomonla]

It’s everything, critics have panned it for decades, one star reviews, but then why is it so damn addictive, if you stumble upon it, you’ll keep watching. Yes it’s melodramatic, campy, and over the top, but it’s offset by that gorgeous song and John Williams brilliant score for the rest, the leading ladies were never more beautiful, especially Sharon Tate, this film will always be a tribute to her breathtaking beauty, she will be forever remembered and preserved here and never forgotten, the gorgeous costume designs by Travilla, such an accurate representation of 60’s glamour and style, set design as well, it’s just lush and glamorous, great sassy dialogue, especially Helen’s, always entertaining. A cult classic!

[@brucekrause2801]

@@gsolomonla ..."Neely O'Hara!!!",in that alley, "Where is everybody?". Every few years it pops up. Wasn't it Roger Eberts script?

[@gsolomonla]

@@brucekrause2801 Ebert wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

[@leprechaunstud582]

"Plant that tree, lift that bale, you get a little drunk...and you land on a Broadway stage under a fuckin' tacky mobile singing an even fuckin' tackier song!" Someone gimme a DOLL!

[@karllieck9064]

I developed scoliosis after I watched this video.

[@robinycus]

Hysterical comment

[@leprechaunstud582]

I developed psychosis!

[@jackanthony976]

You should be lucky that they didn't have Hayward lip sync over Judy Garlands voice. After all, Garland did prerecord the same song for the film prior to her being canned. Since the film was so unapologetically tacky on all counts I wouldn't be surprised if they would have had Hayward lip sync to Garland's voice thinking the movie audience would not notice. Then you might have developed something worse than scoliosis.

[@LATINHANDS65]

You win.

[@johnzaragoza8576]

@@leprechaunstud582 So funny, she does contort herself very oddly

[@robcop993]

I think I'll go cut my grass. But before I go, I have to ask one question: Why would a director build a humongous, multi-colored, plexiglass mobile and spin it around his star's face, obscuring it at times, during the movie's showstopping musical number? Just a thought.

[@PJChgo1]

...not to mention plexiglas covered with fingerprints and dust.....

[@ViolettaD1485]

Maybe he hated Helen Lawson so much he was hoping it would decapitate her.

[@blaydeforbes8775]

@@PJChgo1 it’s fabulous I love it

[@NewMatth]

He was madly in love with her onstage? Is he both deaf and blind?

[@jackanthony976]

It can happen. I remember meeting singer Lesley Gore offstage and she was a total evil bitch, but I still play her greatest hits CD quite often.

[@ilovebarbra2]

He was most likely high and or drunk from the booze and dope they supposedly don't go for on Broadway.

[@ilovebarbra2]

just drunk and high on dolls

[@charlescopenhagen6198]

Such a talent and such a loss!

[@HereticPharaoh]

Patty Duke said that Hayward watched how Margaret Whiting (who dubbed Hayward's vocals) performed the song in studio and attempted to emulate it on stage, which is why she looks so odd.

[@Fltattnj]

This song makes me laugh. My tree will offer shade when strangers go by.

[@RBS_]

...or, THROW it! ...ha-HAAA!! >soSHADY

[@julieerin115]

This act was supposed to be a major hit?!?

[@arbitraryvegetarian9881]

In movies, those numbers from "Broadway" are usually idiotic and have nothing to do with plot, etc. "Hit the Sky" was a major hit and they put huge-ass mobiles in every scene!

[@fivemile13]

An interesting use for rejected oversized guitar picks!

[@glenconmc]

I like the song!

[@vistaestrada]

I want that psychedelic mobile for my front porch!

[@leprechaunstud582]

It just turned up on Ebay...bid, baby, BID!

[@TarotMage]

This 'song' was written by Dory and Andre Previn...which is proof positive that sometimes drug-taking and song-writing isn't a good combination.

[@MerleOberon]

Somehow the movie version does the book justice.

[@leprechaunstud582]

Trash begets trash...

[@jackanthony976]

Valley of the Dolls is grade B trash and it ended the motion picture careers of both Barbara Parkins and Patty Duke. And both Sharon Tate and Susan Hayward would not live another five years. I'm not sure whose career could have survived this mess. I hope the rest of the cast did not give up their day jobs.

[@Kaboomboo]

@@jackanthony976 Well Tate and Hayward died due to circumstances beyond their control, not from this movie dude.

[@labbecedario1579]

​@@jackanthony976the only woman whose career wasn't wasted 'cause of this movie was Lee Grant, who won an Oscar 8 years later

[@akrenwinkle]

Belated, but the film strays far, far away from the book. Same with "Myra Brekenridge."

[@kennethpotts5056]

That's Margaret Whiting dubbing for Mrs Hayword, but on the soundtrack lp they could not use her because she had a contract with another record company so they used Eiieen Wilson(of Your Hit Parade) to record it with the musical track

[@shanedeleon5376]

I always thought that little lean she did at the end was so weird lol

[@jamesmorrison2055]

I always burst into laughter at that part. Looks like an aerobics stretch.

[@ilovebarbra2]

it is weird but is it supposed to be Helen looking up at the tree offering shade as strangers go by, cuz you know brother , she's a stranger there herself

[@ilovebarbra2]

I assume this is supposed to be the eleven o'clock number in the show starring Helel Lawson. Now imagine some Grande dame of Broadway, Patti Lupone, Angela Lansbury, or whoever comes out to sing this number, You're expecting a Don't Cry For Me Argentina, or an If He Walked Into My Life type of song, but instead you get Plant My Own Tree with a dirty mobile spinning around their head and nary a tree in sight.

[@rick0e295]

Love Susan. FYI, Maggie Whiting is the voice you hear.

[@johnnymfan5065]

How did Judy get the outfit Hayward wore towards the end of the movie to wear in her live shows or was it a copy? There are pix of Sharon Tate modelling in the outfit too online.

[@dolliesdieyes5590]

After Garland was fired, she got to keep the dress. She wore it on stage at her last performance. 1964, I think?

[@glenconmc]

@@dolliesdieyes5590 She wore it frequently on stage up to her death in '69. She wore it in '69 at The Talk Of The Town in London. She also had a white copy and red copy made.

[@dolliesdieyes5590]

@@glenconmc Wow, thank you.

[@johnzaragoza8576]

@@dolliesdieyes5590 Yeah, she just kept it. It was so tiny nobody else could wear it. God bless them both

[@dolliesdieyes5590]

@@johnzaragoza8576 Ah, I see. Thanks.

[@urbanguy99]

VOTD is such a classic. The hilarious thing that Susan Haywood appeared singing in many of her films...and she never sung a note - it was always dubbed by another singer

[@marcmitchel25]

I'll Cry Tomorrow, her voice. Credits: "Miss Hayward Sings"...

[@davidallen508]

@@marcmitchel25 Quite so and Susan was totally brilliant in one of the greatest films ever made.

[@jeffreyfeet]

Love Susan Hayward but I wish Judy garland had done this

[@alanellaway5489]

Not True

[@usmale49]

Susan Hayward did her own vocals in: "I'll Cry Tomorrow"! You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading misinformation. Surprised KZbin hasn't deleted your comment, Hot Shot!!

[@karllieck9064]

I'll plant my own weed, my own weed, and I'll smoke it slow.

[@Hugatree1]

Karl Lieck blows the original lyrics away. This was an embarrassment to the singer, and the songwriter but no one seemed to notice

[@karllieck9064]

Thanks, HP. But it was still deliciously awful. Lo!@@Hugatree1

[@bbt5358]

Hahahahaha ❤️

[@cwbrooks5329]

Hahahahahaha. Thanks, I needed that.

[@johnsax1445]

Omg, that made me laugh out loud 😄

[@maxalberts2003]

Why were there four old winos in the orchestra pit?

[@ilovebarbra2]

They did it for free.

[@rockeroller]

It's so f♡xking terrible I can't stop laughing

[@Julito-ty5ph]

can you imagine Joan Crawford in this role and performing this tune…..

[@joeyjosephs]

Judy Garland nailed this song, even the arrangement is better

[@glenconmc]

Agree.

[@philiphatfield-ev4kj]

That ridiculous mobile that is swirling around Susan Hayward looks dangerous. Hayward seems a little nervous!

[@ras613pa]

'Annie' does seem sort of upset when 'Burke' says that he 'absolutely loves' 'Helen. lol

[@arbitraryvegetarian9881]

It does seem she's detecting a personality indicator.

[@bkynbiker19]

More like mystified ...

[@ilovebarbra2]

@@bkynbiker19 Wouldn't you be? I know I would.

[@ToyotaGuy1971]

That's why her family tree doesnt branch. 💣💥

[@michaelmiller1215]

A bizarre psychedelic set! I can only imagine what this would have been if Judy Garland has sang this as originally cast. Margaret Whiting’s voice is great, but isn’t close to Susan Hayward’s speaking voice…

[@hillarymansfield1605]

You Judy fans know that Judy could've never pulled off that magnificent gown the way Hayward did. On Judy the gown had a full back, on Hayward it's backless!

[@edwardmiller9549]

The backless gown seemed to have a profound effect on her singing. As one critic said, she was singing in two zip codes.

[@glenconmc]

Judy looked amazing in all the costumes in the test. I would have put her in the pantsuit to sing the number.

[@glenconmc]

Judy looked amazing in all her costumes as you can see in the costume tests.

[@zzzbbbooo]

@@glenconmc She looked frail and ill, which she was. Susan was in full bloom here.

[@rabit818]

Propane didn’t polish the spinning colored acrylic.

[@brianlusk2557]

Love this song by Susan

[@MrRee-rs5dm]

Judy Garland would have been terrific in the Helen Lawson role. The voice is that is Margaret Whiting. Judy of course would have sung the vocals herself.

[@glenconmc]

Judy would never have stayed in those mobiles she would have been prancing around and selling it as only Judy can. So sad she didn't do this film.

[@JustMe-xz2ls]

I don't think so, as Judy was too sweet-natured. Helen Lawson was supposed to be a 'barracuda' as her monologue at the end calls it

[@andrebontemp]

I wonder why they don't let Susan make her own singing like she did in I'll cry tomorrow where she was excellent

[@edwardmiller9549]

Because she was really far from excellent. And you're a moron.

[@billf9847]

That diorama/moving kaleidoscope wtf

[@donnaturner9762]

It's like she's playing Whack-a-Mole with the mobile.......the set is ridiculous...surprised she didn't get a black eye LOL

[@rockeroller]

If Chauncey the gardener wrote a song.

[@hankaustin7091]

LOL!!!!!! I literally laughed out loud!! so true!

[@eugenegm]

How did she avoid being hit by the rotating plexiglass mobile sculpture?

[@glenconmc]

Judy's filmed costume tests survive and she looks great in every outfit. There are also some dressing room scene stills with Barbara Parkins. The director was mean to Judy and kept her waiting all day. This was from the mouth of Patty Duke. Shame as Judy would have been great.

[@barbswanson6510]

Please plant me in my grave now.

[@julietteyork6293]

Travilla designed the most exquisite, flattering gowns. The only outfits I didn’t love in this film were those worn by Anne (Barbara Parkins). I though they were too dowdy for her character.

[@bkynbiker19]

Barbara agreed, said she hated, HATED her wardrobe in this, all the beige etc

[@2onegrams]

This is from the movie, presumably it was sung by Margaret Whiting, Susan Hayward just mouth to it

[@rockeroller]

The sound of someone trying to polish a turd.

[@shayadayan3343]

The worsr songs ever

[@trig6]

The great Lawson......she was better than Merman.

[@ilovebarbra2]

My German Shepard's howling is better than Merman, OOF!

[@charlesbower8387]

The orchestra that is shown could never produce what we hear on the soundtrack. There are not nearly enough instruments.🙄

[@glenconmc]

It is also a slightly different orchestration to Judy's version. I like Judy's better and wish she had filmed it.

[@rainlori]

That's Hollywood!

[@stevetimms4100]

The lyrics make Zero sense! She seems to be inviting anyone, who visits 'her' City, to come and stay with her! As the character, was a selfish, egoistical person, it is highly doubtful, that she would show 'Charity' to anyone! Also, as Helen Lawson was supposed to be, just about the biggest Female Act in the Film, it is very odd that she only gets to 'Sing', (Mime!), one Song! If Helen, (Susan), had leaned sideways much further, she'd have fallen over!...

[@bradly2007]

Garland nailed this song, this version pales in comparison...

[@marcwielage4678]

The horror! THE HORROR!

[@davidwoolwine8349]

what was that?

[@ilovebarbra2]

The beginning of many a nightmare

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

She was accused of making drag queen gestures. I think you can see it.

[@AnteoTesila]

that was the idea!!! love it

[@charlescopenhagen6198]

Edith Mariner at her best

[@usmale49]

Thank you, I was trying to remember Susan Hayward's real name without having to GOOGLE it!!

[@charlescopenhagen6198]

@@usmale49Edith Mariner is the real name. I think she should have used the name

[@usmale49]

@@charlescopenhagen6198 Maybe, but people may have confused it with Ethel Merman! What do you think?

[@charlescopenhagen6198]

@@usmale49 I don’t think Ethel would have been an issue. Ethel was a big star while Susan had only a small part in 1942’s “I Married A Witch’.

[@waynehentley4332]

​@@charlescopenhagen6198Edith is not considered glamorous!!

[@charlescopenhagen6198]

I hate the plastic moving in front of her but Susan Hayward (Edith Mariner)

[@donatord]

That's not Miss Hayward's voice. I forget the name of the singer but I know who it isn't. She's still great.

[@fran_1978]

Margaret Whiting

[@keithmontgomery3039]

Margaret Whiting was dubbed for this.

[@dmmchugh3714]

What does the song even mean ?

[@karllieck9064]

Nothinhg It means norhing. She's high as hell.

[@waynehentley4332]

It's metaphorical for her life.

[@jimrick6632]

SIXTIES AWFUL STYLES...AND MARGARET WHITING SINGING FOR SUSAN...JUDY GARLAND RECORDED THIS SONG AND IT IS ON YOU TUBE ALONG WITH SUSAN MOUTHING TO GARLANDS RECORDING...SORRY JUDY DIDN'T MAKE IT TI THIS PART...SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT...

[@LivingDead6061]

so is she just miming to judy garlands version or did they re-record it so susan haywards actually singing?

[@maxalberts2003]

Um...have you ever actually HEARD Judy Garland's voice? This is Margaret Whiting's voice coming out of Susan Hayward's mouth.

[@alwaysblake148]

Susan Hayward was a great actress and star, but this is cringeworthy. Margaret Whiting's voice doesn't suit her, and the song is awful. Interestedly, Lena Horne sang it on TV and was tremendous.

[@marcmitchel25]

Lena could have sold ice in Alaska.

[@windstorm1000]

this song/performance is like a very pleasant car wreck--just try and look away!

[@ginger1961]

I like Anita Ellis, who is on the soundtrack release better. She sings it faster. Margaret's version is fine, but to me she sounds like she is behind the beat.

[@fivemile13]

It's Eileen Wilson on the soundtrack album.

[@TotzkeMike]

What a terrible, terrible song. Makes me laugh.

[@leprechaunstud582]

You aren't kidding! Rhyme "yard" with "hard." Yikes!

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

Yeah... I would like to hear her own voice for this song, not this dubbed version...

[@AllenMQuinn]

Susan was a star in her own right, but as Helen, she just wasn't "Diva" enough so this scene isn't very effective. Had Judy stayed, she would've brought that.

[@ilovebarbra2]

I agree , that song and Helen's leaning this way and that does not say huge Broadway diva even if it was a "real show" that would have been a throw away song sung by one of the lesser performer s in the show.

[@pinkydogbear]

what?

[@BrunoSilva-vz9lj]

It completely ruined Judy's version, and the movie definitely wasn't the same.

[@mariancarol8332]

What a strange song

[@maxalberts2003]

What the hell...? Dory Previn wrote these lyrics. Too bad. She's written much better for film. ("Come Saturday Morning" for example.)

[@bkynbiker19]

And then-husband Andre wrote the music ... they did virtually all the songs for this film

[@rrrich7]

what a riot. Susan Hayward couldn't give a singing performance worth something to save her life. all that weird posturing she does with her body. she is just awful. the lyrics make no sense anyway.

[@Hugatree1]

rrrich7 awful in a totally awesome way!

[@jackanthony976]

Part of being a professional singer is knowing how to use the body, eyes and face when singing. Hayward looks awkward because she was not nor ever claimed to be a professional singer.

[@ilovebarbra2]

@@jackanthony976 She could have at least faked it since her character Helen Lawson was supposed to be a huge Broadway musical star.