Paint Your Wagon (1969) |
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| Director(s) | Joshua Logan |
| Producer(s) | Alan Jay Lerner |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Film Adaptation, Musical, Romance, Western |
Featured Cast of Paint Your Wagon See More »
Lee Marvin(as Ben Rumson)
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Lee Marvin
(as Ben Rumson)
Clint Eastwood(as Pardner)
Paint Your Wagon
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Clint Eastwood
(as Pardner)
Jean Seberg(as Elizabeth)
Paint Your Wagon
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Jean Seberg
(as Elizabeth)
Harve Presnell(as Rotten Luck Willie)
Paint Your Wagon
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Harve Presnell
(as Rotten Luck Willie)
Ray Walston(as Mad Jack Duncan)
Paint Your Wagon
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Ray Walston
(as Mad Jack Duncan)
Alan Baxter(as Mr. Fenty)
Paint Your Wagon
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Alan Baxter
(as Mr. Fenty)
Paula Trueman(as Mrs. Fenty)
Paint Your Wagon
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Paula Trueman
(as Mrs. Fenty)
Robert Easton(as Atwell)
Paint Your Wagon
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1969
Paint Your Wagon
Released
1969
Robert Easton
(as Atwell)
Paint Your Wagon Overview:
Paint Your Wagon (1969) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Joshua Logan and produced by Alan Jay Lerner.
Academy Awards 1969 --- Ceremony Number 42 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Scoring | Adaptation score by Nelson Riddle | Nominated |
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Paint Your Wagon Quotes:
[Introduction to the song "They Call the Wind Mariah"]
Mad Jack Duncan: It's a living hell up here. What with the bloody rain, the bloody loneliness, and that bloody, bloody wind.
Mad Jack Duncan: It's a living hell up here. What with the bloody rain, the bloody loneliness, and that bloody, bloody wind.
Ben Rumson:
Now, don't tell me you've never been with a woman.
Horton: No, sir I haven't.
Ben Rumson: Well, that, that's terrible! Did you know you could go blind?
Horton: No, sir I haven't.
Ben Rumson: Well, that, that's terrible! Did you know you could go blind?
Ben Rumson:
Howdy Parson, welcome to HELL!
Mad Jack Duncan:
All right.
[grabs Jacob Woodling by the beard]
Mad Jack Duncan: What about it Mormons?
Sarah Woodling: [whispering] Jacob. We need every penny, Jacob. And I can't bear another day of those martyred looks. There. There it is again!
Elizabeth: This isn't a martyred look, Sarah. This look is puuuure - hatred.
Jacob Woodling: Quiet! Brigham Young has twenty seven wives and he hasn't had half the trouble with them that I've had with the two of you!
Elizabeth: Then simplify your life, Jacob. Sell me.
Jacob Woodling: But Elizabeth: you don't know what you'll get.
Elizabeth: I know what I've had.
[grabs Jacob Woodling by the beard]
Mad Jack Duncan: What about it Mormons?
Sarah Woodling: [whispering] Jacob. We need every penny, Jacob. And I can't bear another day of those martyred looks. There. There it is again!
Elizabeth: This isn't a martyred look, Sarah. This look is puuuure - hatred.
Jacob Woodling: Quiet! Brigham Young has twenty seven wives and he hasn't had half the trouble with them that I've had with the two of you!
Elizabeth: Then simplify your life, Jacob. Sell me.
Jacob Woodling: But Elizabeth: you don't know what you'll get.
Elizabeth: I know what I've had.
Pardner:
Ben, how's married life?
Ben Rumson: Pardner, it was so good that I forgot that I was married.
See More Quotes from Paint Your WagonBen Rumson: Pardner, it was so good that I forgot that I was married.
Paint Your Wagon Facts
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The song "Hand Me Down That Can of Beans" was performed by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, who were also extras in the movie. The band is most famous for singing "Mr. Bojangles".
The first attempt to film this property was by Louis B. Mayer and Jack Cummings in 1957. Planned as a Cinerama release with a screenplay by John Lee Mahin and new songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Arthur Schwartz, the project was abandoned when Mayer died. Gary Cooper was being sought to play Ben Rumson.
Lee Marvin was set to star in The Wild Bunch, a project that he helped put together with stuntman Roy N. Sickner, when Paramount offered him $1 million plus a percentage to star in this picture.
Although a musical, no choreographer was ever hired.
The play was produced on Broadway in 1951 and was one of the two properties Louis B. Mayer took with him after being ousted from MGM. Advancing age and the fact that Mayer had been so removed from actual film production for 30+ years rendered him unable to get it underway as a film.