A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader's young maid.A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader's young maid.A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader's young maid.
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia'Evening Primrose' was filmed and originally broadcast in color, but the color master has since been lost.
- GoofsThe dialogue suggests that the film is set in 1940, when the short story upon which the movie is based was written. However, portions were filmed in a real store during off-hours, so there are countless things from the '60s featured throughout, including vehicles, clothing, hi-fi record players and other electronics, and the prominently featured book "Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum," which was first published in 1965.
- Quotes
Charles Snell: What goes on here?
Roscoe Potts: Life, my boy. And death, of course. You can't have one without the other.
- Alternate versionsThe program was shot and telecast in color, but the master videotape vanished from the vaults decades ago. The DVD version is in black-and-white, transferred from the best of the three kinescope prints which are known to exist.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Nutcracker (2008)
Featured review
More recordings of the music
On Mandy Patinkin's 1987 CD Dress Casual, the music from Evening Primrose is sung by the two great interpreters of Sondheim's music: Patinkin and Bernadette Peters. It was a wonderful introduction to the songs. The CD itself suffers from something common in his albums, a too-large modulation in volume, which is forever causing you to turn the volume up, then down, then up again.
But the singing itself is gorgeous. These are two magnificent voices singing music representative of Broadway's best composer, and it's a wonder we haven't heard the tunes more often in the many tributes to Sondheim. The plot idea is as old as Greek mythology, and over-used. Anyone interested in Sondheim at all should get a listen to this CD.
But the singing itself is gorgeous. These are two magnificent voices singing music representative of Broadway's best composer, and it's a wonder we haven't heard the tunes more often in the many tributes to Sondheim. The plot idea is as old as Greek mythology, and over-used. Anyone interested in Sondheim at all should get a listen to this CD.
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- Davenicity
- Nov 26, 2009
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- Filming locations
- West 42nd St, New York City, New York, USA(Classic NY Website - A new flagship store was built in 1913 close to West 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. The new location had nine floors of retail space and purchasing offices in the basement. The new location focused more of their attention on clientele from the nearby Theater District and the Carriage Trade. Many local actors stopped by the store while on break from their theater production. The store was busiest between the hours of 11 am to 2 pm, when people working in and around the area were on their lunch hours.)
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- Runtime1 hour
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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