I’ve been able to get a hold of some more HQ stills from Jon’s live television broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA. Jon played the part of Prince Christopher to Julie Andrews’ titular character. There are three that are in colour so we get to see Jon’s handsomeness as well as the colour of one of his costumes.
I found this on Youtube and thought you’d love to see it. There is a video with a few of Jon’s MAJOR DAD bloopers. Jon played the part of Brigadier General Marcus C. Craig on the show for its final three seasons. I’ve been rewatching this show and found Jon’s humour so funny. How he delivered the lines so perfectly despite Matt Mulhern (Lt. Eugene Halowachuck) and Beverly Archer’s (Gunnery Sgt Alva Bricker) comedic timing…. I’d say these three were the stand outs for me during the show’s final seasons. I did watch it in the show’s first season but didn’t think it found its feet until the second and the additions of Archer and Jon. I have to say I adored Shanna Reed (Polly Cooper McGillis), Marisa Ryan (Elizabeth Cooper McGillis), Nicole Dubuc (Robin Cooper McGillis) and simply and totally loved Chelsea Hertford (Casey Cooper McGillis). I had begun watching the show due to having seen Gerald McRaney (Major John McGillis) on the show Simon and Simon. While I did like season one, having Jon added just made my watching of this show that much more perfect.
Finally, I have Jon’s work from the 1957 live television broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA. I’ve been after some high quality stills for you and I finally got them. I have to apologize for the lesser quality of the screencaps and some of the production material, however, I was limited to the quality of the DVD. Unfortunately this hasn’t been remastered for a Bluray release and I’ve found nothing denoting there will be one. Sad really considering the milestone this original broadcast has in television history. This aired live on CBS on March 31, 1957 to massive ratings, massive for that time. According to Jon who of course plays our Prince, after the airing he walked out onto Times Square in New York to empty streets. May I say, Jon never looked more dashing. The line he cuts in his dancing, costume and his fine honey-dripped voice leaves much to a girl’s heart to desire in a Prince to wish for. The way he takes Julie Andrews into his arms and eyes makes us all swoon for the day our prince does come. Until that time, Jon can be that placeholder. I know for me he’ll always have a place in my heart. I”ve also included the soundtrack for your listening pleasure. Click on the iPod and open in your preferred listening application. The soundtrack is available on iTUNES. CINDERELLA also stars Howard Lindsey, Dorothy Stickney, Alice Ghostley, Ilka Chase, Edie Adams, and Kaye Ballard.
In light of the new Kenneth Branagh version of CINDERELLA due out in theatres in March, I thought it might be time to take another trip down that staircase with the glass slipper and remember Jon in his role as Prince Christopher from the 1957 live televised airing of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical of the same name. Though in the new version the part of the Prince is being played by Game of Thrones star Richard Madden. In this version the Prince has a new name. That is Kit. Can Richard compare to Jon? I think he’s my close second since no other can compare to Jon. The clip is the part where Christopher is in search of his princess and is all about to give up hope. Here Jon joins Dorothy Stickney in a reprise of Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful. In the making of on the DVD, Jon tells of his flub up where he sang over Dorothy. You can tell he knew he’d done the unforgivable, though I will give him a pass because he’s Jon Cypher and he was just so earnest in his wanting to find his princess. And if that princess was Julie Andrews, wouldn’t you be?
Happy New Year everyone and I hope your Christmas Holidays were the best ever. Mine were great and the New Year started off great for me. Thanks to everyone who has visited the site in the last year and here’s to a wonderful 2015. To start off the year, I have some stills of Jon from his work as Dirk E. Maurier from the ABC television soaper DYNASTY. I think it was great for Jon to have been able to be a part of three very successful series during the 80s. That he played three different characters on three different shows on three different networks was great for him. Those roles and series were; Dirk Maurier on ABC’s DYNASTY, Jeff Munson on CBS’s KNOTS LANDING and Chief Fletcher Daniels on NBC’s HILL STREET BLUES. I can’t think of any actor that had that kind of elasticity when moving between networks, yet Jon did it and created three distinctly different characters. Kudos to him.
The last for the night…yeah, right! The same year Jon guested on MCMILLAN & WIFE he also did an episode of the spy series MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE in the part of Art Stafford a rich member of a drug syndicate set in Southeast Asia. Jon’s main raison d’être is to be a general rat, a condition he plays to maximum effect.
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