"BLOOMER GIRL"

(5/28/56)

television version of 1944 hit Broadway musical comedy, based on book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg; produced and directed by Alex Segal; choreographed by Agnes de Mille, with spectacular Civil War Ballet; story is set shortly before Civil War and centers around Evalina, sixth daughter of a hoop skirt manufacturer who sides with her Aunt Dolly Bloomer, an avid suffragette, and falls in love with a handsome slave owner, Jefferson Calhoun. Stars Barbara Cook (Evalina) and Keith Andes (Calhoun), repeating their Broadway roles, and Carmen Matthews, Paul Ford, Paul McGrath, Heywood Hale Broun, with large cast of dancers and singers.