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      • Based on the stage musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (better known for “My Fair Lady” and “Gigi”), this big-budget big-screen production was panned by all critics and tanked at the box-office.
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  2. Jun 19, 2018 · The New York Times called the score “elevator stuff.”. Paint Your Wagon, weighing in at almost three hours long, torched money throughout production. Paramount was cagey about the actual budget, but estimates range between $20 million and $26 million (or up to $187 million today).

  3. English. Budget. $20 million [3] Box office. $31.6 million [4] Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American Western [5] musical film starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg. The film was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 musical Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Loewe. It is set in a mining camp in Gold Rush -era California.

  4. A good actor can do this, but it's a waste when he must. The problem was money. It always is in these inflated big-budget musicals. "Paint Your Wagon" cost around $18,000,000, and there is probably no way to spend that much money on a musical and retain any degree of intimacy and feeling. The logistics forbid it.

  5. Paint Your Wagon. Lesley Ann Warren and Sally Ann Howes turned down the role of Elizabeth. Kim Novak was also approached, and Diana Rigg was set to star as Elizabeth but was forced to withdraw due to illness. Lee Marvin had to be made to look older in the movie, since at 44 he was only six years older than Clint Eastwood.

  6. Jun 2, 2021 · That's right...I'm talking about the western-themed musical that was one of the biggest flops of his career back in 1969 — Paint Your Wagon. We're talking a musical with choreography and ...

  7. Jul 17, 2007 · My Year of Flops Case File #50. Paint Your Wagon. An entire generation knows Josh Logan's Paint Your Wagon primarily as the movie the Simpsons rent expecting a typical Clint Eastwood bloodbath ...

  8. Logan's movie is a flop on many levels, a musical in which America's most macho actors, Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin, are miscast and required to sing. Full Review | Original Score: D | Feb 13 ...

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