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strong>Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (8
March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress.
A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained
in
London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s she
had
appeared in several films, including Tom Jones (1963), and Georgy Girl (1966) which
won her a New York
Film Critics Award and
nominations for an Academy
Award and a Golden Globe
Award.
In 1967, she made her Broadway debut,
and performed in several stage
productions in New York while making frequent returns to London's West
End. She
performed with her sister Vanessa in Three
Sisters in London, and in the
title role in a television production of Whatever
Happened to
Baby Jane? in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s
in
films such as Shine (1996) and Gods
and Monsters (1998), for which she received another Academy
Award
nomination.
The Saga of Jenny" is a popular song written for the 1941
Broadway musical
Lady in the
Dark, with music by Kurt
Weill and lyrics by Ira
Gershwin.
The music is marked "Allegretto quasi andantino"; Gershwin describes
it as "a
sort of blues bordello".[1]
It was premiered by Gertrude Lawrence in the role of Liza
Elliott, the editor of a fashion magazine. In the context of the show,
the song
comes in a dream sequence in which Elliott defends her indecision about
marriage
by telling the tale of "a girl named Jenny/Whose virtues were varied and
many—/Excepting that she was inclined/Always to make up her mind".
The song was included in the 1944 Hollywood film Lady in
the
Dark.
Artistes who have recorded the song include Gertrude Lawrence,[2]Dawn
Upshaw[3],
Julie Andrews, Ute
Lemper, and by Benny Goodman & His
Orchestra with Helen
Forrest.
Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
Book: Moss Hart
Premiere:
Thursday, January 23, 1941
Jenny made her mind up when she was
three
She herself was going to trim the Christmas tree
Christmas Eve she
lit the candles, tossed the tapers away
Little Jenny was an orphan on
Christmas day
Poor Jenny, bright as a penny
Her equal would be hard to
find
She lost one dad and mother, a sister and a brother,
But she would
make up her mind
Jenny made her mind up when she was twelve
That into
foreign languages she would delve
But at seventeen to Vassar, it was quite a
blow
That in twenty-seven languages she couldn't say no
Poor Jenny, bright
as a penny
Her equal would be hard to find
To Jenny I'm beholden, her
heart was big and golden
But she would make up her mind
Jenny made her
mind up at twenty-two
To get herself a husband was the thing to do
She got
herself all dolled up in her satins and furs
And she got herself a
husband--but he wasn't hers
Poor Jenny, bright as a penny
Her equal
would be hard to find
Deserved a bed of roses, but history discloses
That
she would make up her mind
Jenny made her mind up at fifty-one
She
would write her memoirs before she was done
The very day her book was
published, history relates,
There were wives who shot their husbands in some
thirty-three states
Jenny made her mind up at seventy-five
She would
live to be the oldest woman alive
But gin and rum and destiny play funny
tricks,
And poor Jenny kicked the bucket at seventy-six
Jenny points a
moral with which you cannot quarrel,
Makes a lot of common sense--
Jenny
and her saga prove that you're gaga
If you don't keep sitting on the
fence
Jenny and her story point the way to glory
To all man and
womankind
Anyone with vision comes to this decision--
Don't make up your
mind
