Fiddler on the Roof [1971] (1 disc)

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• Topol was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award (New York City) for Actor in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof for recreating his film role of Tevye and is still performing the role in regional theater (as of 2009).
• The film was a surprise hit in Japan where its obvious love for crumbling tradition struck a chord with Japanese audiences.
• The film version omits two songs from the stage production - {Now I Have Everything} and {The Rumor}.
• Every time Topol talks on camera to God, he's talking to a white ball on the end of a stick held out of camera range.
• The {Sunrise Sunset} scene was not lit by electric light but by hundreds of candles.
• To make Topol look older, the makeup team clipped 15 white hairs from director Norman Jewison's beard and applied them to Topol's eye brows (seven on the left, eight on the right).
• Before production Norma Crane was diagnosed with the breast cancer which would eventually kill her. She told only director Norman Jewison, co-star Topol and associate producer ^[?] Patrick J. Palmer, all of whom kept her secret.
• Topol was only in his mid-thirties when he performed the role of an older Tevye.
• According to producer ^[?] Walter Mirisch, ^[?] Anne Bancroft declined the role of Golde.