Janet Blair Man" (both 1948), but was dropped by Columbia and did not return to pictures for several years. She made a rare dramatic appearance in the British horror film "Night of the Eagle" (1962). She played the wife of Tony Randall in the comedy "Boys' Night Out", a motion picture released in the same year, which starred James Garner and Kim Novak. In 1950, Blair took the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the U.S touring production of the stage musical "South Pacific", making more than 1,200 performances in three years. "[I] never missed a performance", she noted proudly. During the
South Pacific (musical) plan, to affiance Liat to a wealthy French planter on the islands. Cable struggles, during the story, with his own racism: he is able to overcome it sufficiently to love Liat, but not enough to take her home. Another source of the musical is the eighth story, "Our Heroine", which is thematically paired with the 12th, "A Boar's Tooth", as both involve American encounters with local cultures. "Our Heroine" tells of the romance between Navy nurse Nellie Forbush, from rural Arkansas, and a wealthy, sophisticated planter, Frenchman Emile De Becque. After falling in love with Emile, Nellie (who is introduced