It's actually what Kristin Chenoweth's voice teacher taught her. She made the mistake of telling Ellen about that when she was a guest one time, and then when Ellen put together "Ellen: the musical!", well, this was an obvious thing to include.
According to her autobiography, her hoohoo also tells the weather, thanks to a really improbable accident in which she broke her tailbone. (Apparently, if you're short, skinny, and female, your tailbone is closer to your hoohoo than it is for men. Who knew?)
They're actually sort of the B-couple in "Follow the Fleet", behind Randolph Scott and Harriet Hilliard (later Harriet Nelson, of "Ozzie and" fame). When Harriet -- a schoolteacher, even -- gets tempted by Randolph in his stalwart and slightly dim manly manliness (and he was very manly), she gets to sing the deathless song Get thee behind me Satan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjL1IzM2oGQ). It also has Fred and Ginger dancing to "Let's face the music and dance" near the end; during part of the dance, her heavy beaded sleeve comes up and slaps him across the face during a spin -- you can actually see it happen if you pay attention -- and he just carried on and finished the number. They tried to get another take without the thwack, but he was so wary of the sleeve that he wouldn't get close enough to her, and it kept messing up the rest of the choreography, so that wound up being the take they used.
Why, yes, yes I do know lots of strange and useless trivia about the oddest movies!
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According to her autobiography, her hoohoo also tells the weather, thanks to a really improbable accident in which she broke her tailbone. (Apparently, if you're short, skinny, and female, your tailbone is closer to your hoohoo than it is for men. Who knew?)
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Why, yes, yes I do know lots of strange and useless trivia about the oddest movies!