Vivian Blaine - Take Back your mink (Guys and Dolls,1955)

[joby]

Man alive, the orchestration in this number is so brilliant. That ending gets me every time. And of course the dancers are amazing, love Vivian Blaine

[femalemuto]

I'm doing this as a school play now and we saw this in school *everybody screamed at this part*

[thekiss]

Oh, this song makes sense. Weird that this is so widely-performed in high schools when it only makes any sense as a burlesque number

[BadBigBuelah]

I love this number in the show. A few years ago I saw a Regional Production of Guys and Dolls. The point in the song where they remove the clothing, Adelaide had a costume malfunction and what she was wearing underneath began to also fall off. The chorus girls jumped into action and surrounded her as they finished the number.

[classicalduck]

I conducted an eight-performance run of this show at a community theater in Minneapolis, forty years ago. I still remember all the cues!

[MVHS]

This, along with West Side Story are two of the musicals I never did get to be in

[SandybeachesAG]

im a hot box dancer in my schools production of this and im so excited for this song!!!

[MichelleOlivetti]

Yes, good dancing but I am mostly wowed by those beautiful dresses. I want one!

[HopeflRomantc]

They replaced "Go Hollanderize it" with "go shorten the sleeves" which really makes no sense. "Hollanderizing" was a process of dyeing and treating cheap muskrat fur to make it look and feel like the much more expensive mink. Many "mink" coats in the 40 and 50s were actually Hollanderized muskrat. So that implies that Nathan gave Adelaide a cheap imitation mink, in which case, she could afford to give it up!!

[Suninitib]

Saw this film first time when I was very young. Always loved this scene. It’s four in the morning and just came to mind. Thanks so much for posting. I hoped it would be here somewhere. 🤗🤗🤗 going to watch it again now. 🥰

[Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

This song is freaking iconic. Well, not just the song, but this performance in general.

[MJK]

One of the better numbers in the show.

[cookieanon]

3:34 i don’t know why I really like this move lol

[aimeecorrea]

Bro my song is different than that is like from my ballet class I mean my tap class yes I do have tap class but my song is different than that it’s different but it’s tape back and mink like what but I don’t have that dress I just got my costume last Saturday and I only go on Saturdays like my dad picked it when is my first day

[MrRraoulof]

I wonder how many takes before they got this right. At 3.41 it goes wrong, one of the girls steps on the mink of her neighbour.

[thomasdelvin]

has an almost 3 d quality how they do that ?

[toxickiller]

What is the name of the lead singer in this number my school is doing a musical and I wanna be her😂

[Tina-qppy]

How did get those dresses off so easily because there was no velcro then, and how did they pick everything up so fast without dropping anything?

[aarongareau]

I love you baby let’s run anyway anywhere maybe even Paris I am half French after all

[romanticandperky]

My older sister does a great Vivian Blaine impersonation, and her and her mother-in-law once custom made a fur coat for Hillary Clinton-and my older sister is also a staunch Trump supporter! True story!