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Gypsy (1962)
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786307884789
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6307884789
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: April 01, 1992
Running Time: 143 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 01, 1962
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Editorial Review:
Widely considered, top to bottom, one of the finest musicals in Broadway history, Gypsy got lucky in its film version. Granted, Rosalind Russell doesn't have the bell-ringing voice one craves for in "Everything's Coming Up Roses," but as a domineering stage mom, she's truly fearsome. Trouping through vaudeville with her is her daughter, the future celebrity stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, played by Natalie Wood in all her youthful lusciousness. The production is studio-bound, but this actually fits the unreal show-biz world depicted. The Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim score has no weak spots, and some of the burlesque numbers ("Let Me Entertain You" and the riotous "You Gotta Get a Gimmick") are so authentic, you'd swear they were at least 100 years old. Gypsy is one of those big, somewhat stately musicals that does satisfying credit to its stage origins; no cinematic ground-breaking here, but a swell way to spend a rainy afternoon. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An Under Appreciated Gem!
One of my favorite musical films. In Rosalind Russell's capable hands, Mama Rose becomes a flesh and blood, living, breathing, and heartbraking character. She gets the pathos and the ambition and the humor and the hurt just right... I love it! The rest of the cast is also first-rate.
Rating: - Gypsy
I remember watching this movie as a child, however, the message is still the same today......you have to make yourself happy. Love this movie.
Rating: - You can't go wrong with Roz
I was ever so cautious about buying this DVD. First, there was the anxiety about potential editing horrors that destroy so many movies on DVD. Then there's the Herculean struggle of resolving who the best Mama Rose really was. And of course, everyone knows that the only movie that ever made full use of the medium to improve a musical was The Sound of Music. So my expectations were already low.
I saw this movie years ago, and the faintness of my memory suggested to me that it wasn't ... Read More
Rating:  - Musical
I've always loved this movie. Natalie Wood is one of my favorite actresses. Some people might not like this because it is a musical. But it is a wonderful movie. Rosalind Russell gives a great performance. It is well worth watching.
Rating: - Tragedy and Farce
I remember watching "Gypsy" on television as a child, when it would come on some Saturday afternoon in the days before cable. Much of the wider implications were lost on me at the time but I remember thinking even then that, in spite of the upbeat and carefree score, "Gypsy" is essentially a tragic story. Loosely based upon the life of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, the heroine does not die in the end; she becomes rich and famous, but she spends her life taking off her clothes for crowds of leering ... Read More
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