Once Upon a Mattress

TV Movie
1964
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

8.4/10

147

YOUR RATING

10User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos

More like this

6.2

3.7

8.0

6.3

5.8

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

4.5

6.2

7.1

7.4

7.2

8.5

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
The original Broadway production of "Once Upon A Mattress" opened at the Phoenix Theater (Eventually running at a total of five separate theaters!) on May 1, 1959, ran for 244 performances and was nominated for the 1960 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical. Carol Burnett, Joe Bova and Jack Gilford reprise their roles. Carol Burnett was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

Crazy credits
For the end credits, we see the castle help moving the mattresses around, and then the camera zooms in on one of them, and the names and credits are printed on the mattresses. The process is repeated throughout all the credits.

Connections
Featured in American Masters: Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character (2007)

Soundtracks
MANY MOONS AGO
Music by Mary Rodgers
Lyrics by Marshall Barer
Sung by the Chorus

User reviews10

Review

Featured review

8/10

The show that made Carol a star!

Despite the cuts, this early TV adaptation of "Once Upon a Mattress" is a treasure. Many of the original cast members re-created their roles from the 1959 Broadway production, among them Jane White, Jack Gilford and Joseph Bova. But it's Carol as swampy Winnifred the Woebegone that's the center of attention, and deservedly so. Elliott Gould, then a Broadway musical comedy performer ("Irma la Douce", etc), is fine as the Jester and look closely and you'll spot Michael Bennett (years before his work on "Follies" and "A Chorus Line") in the chorus. Shani Wallis later was a lead in the Oscar-winner "Oliver!"