Marianne McAndrew, Hello Dolly, 1968. Newman and Ann-Margret tested as Irene Molloy - finally sung on the soundtrack by Gilda Maiken and Melissa Stafford. Like Dolly, herself, Carol Channihg, Newman had beaten Streisand to a Broadway Tony award in 1962. Newman’s husband, songwriter Adolph Green, admitted he’d voted for La Barb!
