Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.
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"Reminder that the real Rose Hovick was a lesbian and also definitely killed a few people."
We stan!
“remember, you’re a lady. you make them beg
for more.. and then don’t give it to them!!..”
raaa i love musicals so much!!😭
rose is an absolute queen 👸
natalie wood is gorgeous <3
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Interesting choice to start the story at the 90 minute mark!
natalie wood in this movie is the very definition of “go girl give us nothing” also every second of this made me feel like I was having each of my teeth pulled out slowly with no novocaine while someone scraped my skin off with a potato peeler.
i refuse to believe that that woman who pretended her daughter (who she named gypsy rose) was sick until she was murdered by the girl and her bf had never heard of this musical
It's about Mama Rose (which...makes the name...wrong...I'll get into it). Apparently 1962 was too early for antiheroines, because instead of actually examining the darkness of Rose, for example her years of exploitation of her children, constant guilt tripping, and inability to let her daughters make any decisions for themselves, the film instead makes her a sympathetic character, a hard worker. She has abandonment issues, but when Herbie leaves her (her worst fear coming true), the film is sympathetic to her, instead of seeing Herbie removing himself from a decade of her toxicity as a good thing. Maybe we're still too scared of antiheroines. I mean, the internet hated Rey from Star Wars for being TOO perfect, how would people react…
pretty cool that i would fuckign lop off my own leg and hand it to stephen sondheim to beat me over the head with huh
A massive spectacle of a musical, classic old Hollywood grandness. Rosalind Russell was born for this role, her energy is unmatched, and Natalie Wood is just darling. Way too long, it drags, not the movies fault though it’s just that it’s a very long musical.
Cinematic Time Capsule
1962 Marathon - Film #75
Hello everybody.
My name’s Cammmalot, what’s yours?
Rosalind Russell stars as the pioneer women without a frontier, along with Natalie Wood as the cat’s whiskers and Karl Malden as a really poor promise collector.
There’s singing, there’s dancing, and even a pantomime cow!
Although some viewers may find the overall pacing to be a load of banana oil, if you hang in with Rosie & team long enough, you just know everything’s gonna be dipsy-doodle.
Now, if they'd only release the Tessie Tura Cut!
”That Tessie Tura must be a very fancy lady”
Not really sure it was the intent but the idea of using expensive Technicolor Cinemascope on a story about low-rent stardom and the horror of showbiz moms is so funny to me. The “jigglies, jiblonkas, bazooms” guy from Peter Jackson’s King Kong would’ve been a fan of Natalie Wood’s tacky burlesque act.
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Imagine how good this could be if the script wasn't absolute garbage. I want to cry at the thought. I would die for Rosalind Russell but Jesus she gave me a migraine. WHO on earth thought it was a good idea to make the movie TWO AND A HALF HOURS LONG and give the meat of the story LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR???? Natalie wasn't even in it until like 40 minutes in and even then her screen time was unimportant. I just have so many questions.... how did this... get... made... LIKE THIS?
As coined, I assume, by Gypsy Rose Lee herself "America's Most Celebrated Stripper" and what that means to us isn't much anymore. It's not to say there isn't burlesque revival or the flash of a leg is archaic in terms of sensuality, the thing that Gypsy misses in timelessness isn't her fault. Celebrity is fleeting, and the relevance of Gypsy is unfortunately only the beginning of why this movie doesn't entirely work. Though, quick caveat, I did enjoy this musical, but that is only because I finished the book very recently. The book and film work rather nicely as companion pieces -- I'll get to that later.
Unbeknownst to herself at the time, Gypsy is probably better remembered for being…
