DOCTOR DOLITTLE

TLEDoctor Dolittle
20th Century-Fox, 1967, Color, 145 minutes
Released December, 1967

Rex Harrison is the 19th-century English doctor who embarks on a quest to learn the languages of animals and along the way meets such strange creatures as the two-headed Pushmi-Pullyu, the Great Pink Sea Snail, and Anthony Newley. Song-filled family gem, based on the stories of Hugh Lofting, also stars Samantha Eggar, Richard Attenborough.

Setting: Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, 1845

Produced by: Arthur P. Jacobs
Associate Producer: Mort Abrahams
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Assistant Director: Richard Lang
Screenplay: Leslie Bricusse
Based on the Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting
Music Directors: Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage
Music and Lyrics by: Leslie Bricusse
Music Scored and Conducted by: Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Herbert Ross
Production Designed by: Mario Chiari
Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves
Set Decorations: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Costumes Designed by: Ray Aghayan
Sound Supervisor: Murray Spivack
Sound: Douglas Williams, John Meyers, Bernard Freericks
Director of Photography: Robert Surtees
Special Photographic Effects: L. B. Abbott, Art Cruickshank, Emil Kosa Jr., Howard Lydecker
Color by De Luxe
Film Editors: Samuel E. Beetley, Marjorie Fowler

Awards: Academy Awards for Best Song ("Talk to the Animals") and Best Special Visual Effects (L.B. Abbott). Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Score (Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage), Best Original Score (Leslie Bricusse), Best Sound, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Cinematography (Robert Surtees) and Best Film Editing (Samuel E. Beetley and Marjorie Fowler)

Cast: Rex Harrison [Dr. John Dolittle], Anthony Newley [Matthew Mugg], Peter Bull [General Bellowes], William Dix [Tommy Stubbins], Portia Nelson [Sarah Dolittle], Samantha Eggar [Emma Fairfax], Richard Attenborough [Albert Blossom], Muriel Landers [Mrs. Blossom], Geoffrey Holder [Willie Shakespeare], Norma Varden [Lady Petherington], Diana Lee [singing voice of Samantha Eggar]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra before movie); [0:02] Main Title (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:08] My Friend the Doctor (sung by Anthony Newley); [0:18] The Vegetarian (sung by Rex Harrison); [0:30] Talk to the Animals (sung by Rex Harrison); [0:45] At the Crossroads (sung by Diana Lee dubbing for Samantha Eggar); [0:52] I've Never Seen Anything Like It (sung and danced by Richard Attenborough, Rex Harrison and Circus Performers); [1:03] Beautiful Things (sung by Anthony Newley); [1:13] When I Look in Your Eyes (sung by Rex Harrison); [1:23] Like Animals (sung by Rex Harrison); [1:27] Intermission (medley of song score played by Orchestra); [1:33] After Today (sung by Anthony Newley); [1:41] Fabulous Places (sung by Diana Lee dubbing for Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newly and Rex Harrison); [1:57] I Think I Like You (sung by Diana Lee dubbing for Samantha Eggar and Rex Harrison); [2:14] Doctor Dolittle (sung by Anthony Newley, William Dix and Children); [2:27] My Friend the Doctor (sung by Childrens Chorus)