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
Little Nellie Kelly (musical) Theatre, Edinburgh, from 17 to 29 November 1924, when the cast consisted of Reginald Purdell, Sylvia Caine, Arthur Brander, Patrina Carlyon, Bernard Clifton, Bryan Danzil, Babs Farren, Madge Haines, Edwin Henderson, Eileen Leslie, George McCloskie, Hugh Reading, Charles Ross, and Tom Woods. In November 1923 a production was mounted by Benjamin Fuller, Hugh J. Ward, and Harry Hall in Australia, running first for four months at the New Princess Theatre, Melbourne. It arrived at the Grand Opera House, Sydney, in mid-August 1924 and ran there for ten weeks. The 1940 musical film "Little Nellie Kelly", starring Judy Garland, was broadly