Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

Peter O’Toole and James Coco are directed by a script-wielding Arthur Hiller on Luciano Damiani’s “depressing” set for Man of La Mancha. This was the film that killed the roadshow in America once and for all. From the collection of Photofest.

Director William Wyler and star Barbra Streisand confer during the filming of “Don’t Rain on My Parade” in Funny Girl. Body language suggests the two have switched jobs. Streisand is sitting in producer Ray Stark’s chair. From the collection of Photofest.

The Finian’s Rainbow gang: director Francis Ford Coppola, stars Petula Clark, Don Francks, and Fred Astaire, producer Joseph Landon and star Tommy Steele. From the collection of Photofest.

Peter O Toole and James Coco are directed by a script-wielding Arthur Hiller on Luciano Damiani s depressing set for Man of La Mancha. This was the film that killed the roadshow in America once and for all. From the collection of Photofest.

Director William Wyler and star Barbra Streisand confer during the filming of Don t Rain on My Parade in Funny Girl. Body language suggests the two have switched jobs. Streisand is sitting in producer Ray Stark s chair. From the collection of Photofest.

The Finian s Rainbow gang: director Francis Ford Coppola, stars Petula Clark, Don Francks, and Fred Astaire, producer Joseph Landon and star Tommy Steele. From the collection of Photofest.