(HD 720p) R&H - "South Pacific", Younger Than Springtime

[@TheScottEF]

"Her mother was French, her father Vietnamese. During World War II, her mother and grandfather were persecuted by the Nazis for being Gypsies...In 1955, ...a seamstress, Nuyen was discovered on the beach by Life magazine photographer Philippe Halsman." "In 1986, Nuyen earned a master's degree in clinical psychology and began a second career as a psychological counselor for abused women and children, and women in prison. She received a Woman of the Year award in 1989 for her psychological work."

[@gilbertotongco1054]

Congratulations France Nguyen God bless you and your loved ones 🙏

[@12classics39]

Not a bad life. She got to make out with young John Kerr in one of the greatest musical films of all time and earn screen immortality, and then be a savior and hero to victims of abuse in the real world. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lindadeal3344]

A beautiful young woman and smart as well, she had many strengths and made use of them!🎉🎉❤😅

[@trwent]

Did Lt. Cable touch her tears??

[@patriciaalexander4925]

Not forgotten.

[@geetarnut]

This is a special movie for me,, I saw it in the theater in 1959, when I was only 6! it enchanted me then and still does now, especially since I fell in love with a beautiful Chinese lady, Shen Yanxia. I know the feelings that they both feel when they finally see each other again, wonderful movie, most beautiful, thank you for posting this!

[@SukieTawdry1000]

The scene in which Joe and Liat run to meet each other is one of the most romantic in film.

[@jackolantern6692]

I agree, i tear up every time i watch her excitedly running to meet her guy.

[@12classics39]

I love how he literally sprints toward her house and she meets him halfway; they cannot wait to see each other again.

[@dianalee3059]

Thank you for putting this together, highlights of one of my favorite movies of all time. Very proud to report the my Dad, Bill Lee, provided the singing voice for John Kerr and knocked Younger Than Springtime right out of the park. I miss you,, Daddy.

[@christinewhite6993]

Oh how awesome. I wish these wonderful singers who sang for actors got more credit.

[@richardigp]

This musical is insane! Insanely beautiful, insanely inspirational, insanely melancholy, insanely memorable, insanely beautiful, insanely memorable, insanely perfect. Thank you for 70 years of wonderful inspiration, hope and wonderfulness.

[@cattycorner8]

richardigp I agree. Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific is insanely beautiful.

[@allenjones3130]

SOUTH PACIFIC also lashes out against the insanities of war and prejudice.

[@alanhodges8839]

Can’t stop the tears watching this movie.

[@Angel-Adramelech]

Blindfold him and block his ears up@@alanhodges8839

[@MsTruNorth]

That final scene is so moving. The entire film is very touching.

[@alangelini8381]

":you've got to be carefully taught" is one of the best songs of all time. This wonderful movie should be mandatory viewing to those in Jr High School. thanks for a wonderful post Romy.

[@equalityforall5620]

Mandatory. I grew up with it and took it to heart.

[@JoanBasile]

Saw this play on senior. Day in high school never forget it look at it over and over never get tired of music just beautiful Joan Brooklyn

[@Tkondrat]

Whos here in 2019? I have watched this so many times

[@wandawong]

What really brings a tear to my eye, is seeing my old home. For a decade, I walked thousands of times over every single location in this film, as a part of daily life.

[@gossamerwings3632]

+wandawong That must be so nostalgic for you! I wished I knew that part of Kaua'i that well, too. I remember in the 60s how relatively unspoiled that island was and I went there because I wanted to be where the movie was filmed, now it's so crowded on some of those beaches esp. Ke'e.

[@sns8420]

+wandawong Hanalei Bay - we loved it there

[@janicesmyth1713]

I had forgotten how much I love this film. The music is amazing.

[@susanyork5089]

This breaks my heart every time , John Kerr so beautiful

[@cbi1991]

when i was a kid, everybody flocked to this film, [just like star wars] it was a gorgeous experience. the music is the most beautiful ever recorded. alfred newman's musical direction was a symphonic achievement that expanded R&H score to new heights.

[@marywiley2210]

This is one of my favorite musicals. I like how it approaches race discrimination in a very creative way. Rodgers and Hammerstein also did this with the King and I. Both of these musicals were definitely ahead of their time. And yes, sadly, people are "carefully taught."

[@douglaskay9959]

I agree, Carefully taught indeed.

[@lovesarahchang]

The film and ending made me cry. So tragic that the young girl....played so wonderfully by the beautiful France Nuyen, was deprived of the love of her life.

[@12classics39]

Hopefully Nellie and Emile let her know that he still loved her and was trying to find her when he was forced to go off on that fatal mission. Perhaps she was pregnant with their child and had something left of him. Undoubtedly she never forgot him. Her mother probably lived in regret the rest of her life for pushing him away instead of trying harder to convince him to stay, because he wouldn’t have gone on that mission if he’d made the commitment to marry her, and the mother gave up on him when he had one moment of doubt.

[@12classics39]

What an underrated scene where Liat runs across the island to meet Cable … stunning music, cinematography, and acting. The chemistry between John Kerr and France Nuyen is so palpable. Her last scene is heartbreaking because her silent tears reveal that she can somehow feel in her soul that he’s gone, even before Nellie confirms it. Hopefully Nellie and Emile let her know that he still loved her and was trying to get back to her.

[@nicfewer8393]

BarBara Luna, who played the role of Ngane and sang Dite Moi in the original 1949 Broadway production, was playing Liat on stage when the film was being made. Yes, the ending is tragic for Liat.

[@trwent]

France Nuyen was simply beyond beautiful in this film. And she still is.

[@bobbieh4457]

Unbelievably beautiful and romantic movie. Fabulous cast.

[@MsTruNorth]

How old was France when this film was made? She looks to be about 16 or 17 years old. Very mature acting for someone so young. She says so much with her eyes and facial expressions.

[@BetterWithBob]

@@MsTruNorth Doing the math, roughly 18-19

[@glenngannon]

I was very lucky to have had Dinner with Ms.Van Nunes, in Los Angeles, she told me she worked for the United Nation,s with children from war torn countries,..she emanated warmth, love and compassion.

[@nicfewer8393]

@@BetterWithBob The same age as BarBara Luna, who was playing Liat on stage at the time, having played Ngana in the original 1949 Broadway production. .

[@doloresgonzalez2184]

What a beautiful movie and I have watched it many, many times and have never gotten tired of the beautiful songs and the love story.

[@doloresgonzalez2184]

I enjoyed this musical and all the beautiful songs.The song Oklahoma is really great and lively.

[@stephanielee8918]

My fav musical of all times and everything abt the film. Love Younger than Springtime esp. sung by Mandy Patinkin. Never get tired of watching it. Thanks so much R & H.

[@brizpeg47]

OMG John Kerr was too beautiful for words...oh yes, the film and ti's message were too....

[@taurusfroggy]

this just may be the most romantic scene in all of cinema

[@minetheruaphadriel]

Thank you very much for posting this. I am now officially obsessed with South Pacific and John Kerr! My mother was hospitalized for 2 weeks and all I did was to watch this video over and over. It has definitely kept my spirits up, actually it still does.

[@dianalee3059]

Thank you for sharing that. Just wanted you to know that my Dad, the late GREAT singer Bill Lee, provided the singing voice for John Kerr. He knocked Younger Than Springtime out of the park!

[@minetheruaphadriel]

@@dianalee3059 Oh yes, bless him! I believe Mr. Lee is also the singing voice of Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music ❤️

[@avuncular300]

A wonderful film. I was very young when it was first released but enjoyed it enormously. I saw it in its full splendour at the Dominion Theatre on London. I fell in love with it then and am still enamoured of it. Halliwell may pooh pooh it for its colour filtered sequences, but I adore it for all its innovations. I has outlasted many others and will always be a benchmark for musical films.

[@freddy29228]

Love Rodgers & Hammerstein! Good old fashion magic! These songs are immortals.. Thanks for posting this here! "And I hold the world in my embrace..." from Younger than Springtime.

[@mariapage9135]

I saw this musical when J was a kid and never forgot how beautiful it is. I played the vinyl record over and over and memorized the sequence of the songs. Now, I have the CD and still remember the sequence and lyrics. We also danced to the music... I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of my Hair. 💝👏👏👏

[@10skylark]

thanks for including the clips from the movie about the secondary love interest, it's very poignant and the lovely songs and acting is so touching! i saw this movie in 1959 with my mother, it made a big impression on me as i was very young at the time, but seeing this compilation brings back happy memories!

[@nancystone6044]

PROBABLY MY FAVORITE MUSICAL MOVIE ALTHOUGH I LOVE ALL THE GREATS (OKLAHOMA, MY FAIR LADY, SOUND OF MUSIC, ETC.) THIS FILM WAS VISUALLY STUNNING, THE MUSIC WAS MOVING AND THE ACTING SUPERB.

[@davidsilver4339]

France Nguyen is of French-Vietnamese background. She is alive and well and living in my hometown, Santa Barbara.

[@kathleenknight4182]

you;ve got to be carefully taught...So far ahead of it's time (and not played in some theaters).....we are still trying to learn.

[@cattycorner8]

It was not included on the soundtrack I bought in the early 1960's.

[@yvonnewratten5855]

Wonderful film .

[@lovesarahchang]

Nuyen made her film debut portraying Liat in the hit 1958 film version of the stage musical South Pacific. Nuyen followed this with a role in the 1958 film adaptation of In Love and War. Her roles in these two films earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Female Newcomer.

[@willdon.1279]

I also come regularly to this superb, beautiful film, the epitome of young love, France and John just ravishing... and also many serious subjects, rarely mentioned, Rossano fleeing home for a wrong, but noble act. I found my "Liat" decades later, now 20 years ago. 🙂

[@larryng1940]

My favorite musical. It is hard to believe that it has been 64 years since I first watched it with my first date in high school. I love all the songs. I was very impressed by France Nuyen.

[@altonmcneill]

This is a very wonderful musical. I love the music, songs, and scenery.

[@seventysixvette]

My God, the young lady France Nuyen is about as beautiful as a lady can get.

[@theworldisreal4568]

Lucky Bob Culp!

[@juliemendoza5790]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE This Movie soooo muchhhh

[@yvonnewratten5855]

Could we have the full film on youtube please .its a long and brilliant film .

[@vintagebrew1057]

Romance just drips from this beautiful score......

[@johnneves9580]

South Pacific was an excellent show back in the day. Todays shows are not very good. Great songs back then.

[@susangeorge5251]

One of the most important songs I ever heard came from South Pacific. "You've Got to be Carefully Taught". Such a short song that sums up the whole problem between the races. Because I loved musicals I was familiar with South Pacific and and that song well before I became actively into marching for racial equality. I can remember preaching to my oh so religious parents when my father first brought home the broadway version of South Pacific with Mary Martin, and Ezio Pinza, that this song had to be followed because that was the truth. Most of the songs from South Pacific are just beautiful. " You've Got to be Taught, " is not really a beautiful song, but it is succinct, short and to the point. It is almost brutal. I love it.

[@gossamerwings3632]

Susan George I was wondering, did your parents find this song shouldn't be played and didn't want to listen to it? I think some people didn't know this song but bought the recording because of the other more famous songs and may've wished the song wasn't in the record. R & H apparently came up against some flack as people thought the song should be left out of the musical.

[@rudolftrost3534]

Susan George I still use that song to argue with many bigots but also to teach my kids to be supportive of racial, religious and sexual equality.

[@mrspenn1611]

Susan George just looked this song up....very powerful lyrics....very...! thanks for bringing it to my....our attention Susan.....all the best

[@devinbattley8492]

+Susan George what a wonderful review. My parents shared this with me. Thank You.

[@mikef5881]

I hope your parents got over their "religious" ideas. Glad you got the point while still young.

[@geetarnut]

You can't write better songs, or get better actors than they did for this wonderful, heartwarming, and yes,,, REALISTIC movie! These emotions evoked by the actors are real,, genuine, and,, what each one of us hopes we can have in this life,,, a loving mate,, and the extreme joy that GOD, in his wisdom wanted for all of us! Not getting religious here,, I agree with Einstein, "I see GOD in the DETAILS in life!"

[@steveweinstein3222]

I love in old movies the subtlety. Never anywhere shown when a couple "did it," but enough clues so the audience knew what was what when.

[@mromneyobama]

I agree!

[@denisesmith2379]

The first time I heard these wonderful songs was when our high school drama club put on the play and I was on the stage crew! Love it!

[@agirlherdogdonald7618]

So cool Denise. I found a new song "You've Got to Be Carefully taught. I want to learn that song

[@davidgaugamela9801]

Happy Talk is better every time I see it. France Nuyen is beautiful and expressive beyond words, the song phenomenal, sung and orchestrated to perfection.

[@garycapristo496]

Beautiful movie clips, Thanks for sharing

[@yvonnewratten5855]

Definately a musical to keep your spirits up yes .brilliant .

[@judyjones2475]

Wish there were more like this now x

[@margaretaa425]

Loved this movie all my life.❤

[@arthurriechert6473]

After watching this movie for the first time when I was a kid I always wanted to go live on a tropical island in the South Pacific.

[@gossamerwings3632]

+Arthur Riechert I also saw it as a kid and wanted to visit the South Pacific and 3 years ago in 2013 i went on a cruise to French Polynesia, it was a dream come true, I'd love to live on one of the atolls down there although it was extremely hot and really humid, the people on this atoll were so friendly and also almost all French speaking.

[@manospetridis1935]

+gossamerwings Better hurry before the chinese occupy it, bulldoze the entire area and make it into a military installation!

[@gossamerwings3632]

+Manos Petridis Why do you bother making snide nasty remarks, it's ironic that this movie about being tolerant hasn't taught you anything. You are homophobic regarding your remark about Anthony Perkins, and maybe you should get out of your own closeted life and maybe you're just jealous that I've been to the south Pacific something which you'll never get to do. Probably a Donald Trump supporter. Make sure you keep the country a safer place!

[@doogieschmoogie5849]

So warm...still as fresh today as 70 years ago

[@marydenise10]

Great Valentines Day love song never grows old!

[@leemarie5019]

Lovely video clips! Thanks for posting❤️👍✨

[@adam1984-p9j]

france nuyen is soooooo beautiful

[@adelasussman3838]

This wonderful musical and it's important message re racism will live on forever because of the genius of Rogers & Hammerstein!! I love this music as much today as I did as a young girl!!

[@Capristan1954]

Thank you Romi, well made and very enjoyable.....this made my evening,wonderful memories of my favourite musical.

[@cynthiaroque3701]

I like the scene of Liat and Cable.

[@geetarnut]

@romympanlilio No, I thank you,, for posting such a beautiful, and truly wonderful example of what we all want from life! I cry when I watch these scenes, although it is actually tears of mixed emotions,, the "pain" of loss,, and,, the incredible "pure joy" of being in love! God bless you, and thanks for the posting!

[@TheHeraclion]

beautiful,just beautiful.

[@amybaker4654]

This was another musical with a message,here we have a story that revolves around racism and it seems that you could tackle tricky subjects as long as there were beautiful songs like these.I have seen the film dozens of times and one stage production,why oh why did the producers have to mess abound with the coloured filters,what a distraction.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

This was a great musical, a great movie, a great story, and had a great cast. I think I'll watch it again this morning. I think France Nuyen (as it was spelled in the credits) was only 19 or 20 when this film was made. She actually had the title role in the stage production of "The World of Susie Wong" but Nancy Kwan got the title role in the movie version.

[@gossamerwings3632]

I think she was younger than that as the movie was released in March 1958 and she was born in July and I figure she was about 18 when the movie was filmed, I read that she was only 17 when she was chosen to play Liat and had to take some English lessons, Rosanno Brazzi did speak French and was able to converse with her and wonder if he was able to help during filming. Amazing that she learned her lines in Suzie Wong phonetically!

[@Mouse2409]

They spelled her last name wrong. It should be Nguyen, not Nuyen.

[@Ts-Angel-MW]

My Girl Back Homeと、そのあとのシーン、好きです。ミッツィーゲイナーは美人で歌も演技も上手くて憧れでした。

[@herrbauer]

Bill Lee (of The Mellomen) dubbed John Kerr's singing voice. (R & H again chose Lee to dub Christopher Plummer's singing voice in "The Sound of Music".) Opera singers Muriel Smith and Giorgio Tozzi sang for Bloody Mary and Emile. Of the principals, only Mitzi Gaynor sang for herself.

[@gossamerwings3632]

Ray Walston did his own singing, he was also in "Damn Yankees" with Gwen Verdon.

[@cattycorner8]

Wow interesting!

[@10skylark]

not to get picky, but, her name is France, not Frances or Francis. i presume she was named for the country, France, where she was born. she is a wonderful actress in her many appearances after South Pacific in movies and on television. however, back in those days Asian actors were not in great demand as they are more now, so she went to UCLA and got a degree in psychology specializing in women and child abuse cases. i would've loved seeing her on Broadway with William Shatner!

[@sueparkerjones1070]

Who could love South Park and South Pacific Rogers and Hammerstein SueX hits my heart

[@lesliebaldwin5645]

Been in love with Liat for 60 years

[@willdon.1279]

Even longer - and found my Liat, Ko, 19 happy years ago... ;-)

[@doloresweatherspoon2727]

Thank you so much for sharing the beautiful music.

[@lovesarahchang]

Later that same year ( 1958 ) Nuyen began starring on Broadway opposite William Shatner in The World of Suzie Wong, with Nuyen playing the title role. She won the 1959 Theatre World Award for her performance in the play, which ran for a total of 508 performances. She was to reprise her role in the 1960 film adaptation of the play and even shot half the film, but she was suddenly replaced with Nancy Kwan.

[@gilbertotongco1054]

France Nuyen is a picture of innocence and beauty

[@mrspenn1611]

Best film musical ever.... you can now get this DVD Blue Ray with all the bits added back in that fell on the cutting room floor......

[@gossamerwings3632]

+Stephen Pennell do you mean the 'gay' scene is now included? any other extra footage?

[@mrspenn1611]

Sorry gossamer ......would you mean the 'happy talk' that's quite gayyus. ....very happy it is....however if you are referring to a sexual thing as in homosexuallity then I very much doubt you will find filth like that in a musical. ......

[@mrspenn1611]

+gossamerwings good words Gossamer. ...I never read any homosexuallity in the original film ir the full film with various bits that were missing.....I recommend you buy from amazon the blue ray version....its awesome. ...

[@maldacious]

+Stephen Pennell chill you dirty nazi

[@johnthompson9171]

my favorite movie of all time it is full of emotions

[@MrTammo5151]

thanks for this romi really beautful

[@Joepipsquiggle]

Real Romance Real LOVE what this World needs NOW, please

[@rhpicayune]

A thousand thumbs up !! : )

[@CarolAnnRunham]

A beautiful song

[@clutchcargo2419]

This is how I picture love should be - in dreamland that is - it really is a beautiful movie !

[@samueldavidrucker7514]

A beautiful video. Thank you

[@melaniemills4505]

Stew Pot's voice sounds GRRRREAT! 😎🐅

[@AdmrlLocke]

This was great!

[@peggysuemcgrady5268]

Wonderful song.

[@cbi1991]

john kerr, god bless you, rip.

[@romympanlilio]

You're very welcome !! Thank you for watching, I'm glad you loved it,

[@BBBYpsi]

Bloody Mary's daughter in this movie was about as gorgeous as they come. If I am not mistaken she was from france.

[@1512592011]

Forget the ...girl back home. You found the most ..wonderfull woman of your life.

[@molliestanton2869]

Interesting that the song refers to her as a kid, who he "liked a lot."

[@TheEarlos99]

Love it :)

[@arthurriechert6473]

I'm stuck in Tennessee and it's colder than Siberia outside. Sigh!

[@gossamerwings3632]

+Arthur Riechert that cold? we went one August and it was so hot and humid you could cut it with a knife, that is, Nashville, Memphis and pretty much all the way to Knoxville, we headed next to Dallas to cool off!

[@arthurriechert6473]

+gossamerwings A friend of mine in Knoxville, TN said to me "I like Tennessee because we got good hot summers and good cold winters!" As if that's a good thing?

[@romympanlilio]

@maybudha I did not know that rating was disabled by default. I just enabled it. Thank you for calling my attention to it.

[@codexox1]

what a beautiful woman she is.

[@10skylark]

Rossano Brazzi was the best actor in the film he also did not do his own singing, only Ray Walston and Mitzi did their singing. the big brawny actor who played Stewpot in the beach scenes, his voice was dubbed by the guy who did the ad on tv "Tony the Tiger" in the breakfast ad, lol. Mitzi earned more money from the sales of the soundtrack recording than what she earned from acting in the movie.

[@romympanlilio]

Thank you for watching !!

[@shigsho]

Showcase Cinemas are having a special screening of this film nationwide in 2018. Check you local Showcase's special events list.

[@lovesarahchang]

Copy and pasted from wikipedia reference South Pacific film version. Rossano Brazzi as Emile de Becque (singing voice provided by Giorgio Tozzi) Mitzi Gaynor as Ens. Nellie Forbush John Kerr as Lt. Joseph Cable (singing voice provided by Bill Lee, uncredited) Ray Walston as Luther Billis Juanita Hall as Bloody Mary (singing voice provided by Muriel Smith, uncredited) France Nuyen as Liat

[@at12155]

that's Tioman Island off Peninsular Malaysia.

[@sijarboe5082]

I believe it was actually filmed in Kauai, Hawaii

[@RobertHamiltonhawaii]

France Nuyen is one of the most stunning women on film.

[@loukhuak1948]

Seen Twice to Listen to Grand Music Compositions.

[@KirateeChanar]

Hanalei bay is beautiful, Kauai Island Hawaii

[@susuannorman6253]

A nice song from the movie

[@romympanlilio]

Sorry, I meant they are enabled by default. I have no idea how they got disabled. I welcome ratings on all my videos. They are now enabled.

[@1512592011]

I'm in love.

[@MTknitter22]

This actor was fabulous too in every movie. He died too young. 💕 France Nuyen

[@HarryElmore-jl2pj]

Profound