Golden Girl

Good movie!

Good movie!

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Golden Girl

i remember this great Mitzi Gaynor movie, it also stuck in my memory, Mitzi gave a stellar performance, and you could see then that she would be a massive star as was the case. look out for Mitzi's new DVD box set of her 8 TV shows coming shortly, also her new website which is also coming shortly. they are the following MITZI, MITZI'S 2ND SPECIAL, MITZI FOR THE FIRST TIME, MITZI'S TRIBUTE TO THE American HOUSEWIFE,MITZI AND 100 GUYS, MITZI ROARIN IN THE TWENTIES, MITZI ZINGS INTO SPRING, MITZI WHATS HOT WHATS NOT, if you are interested in buying these fabulous TV specials contact MITZIGAYNORDVD@GMAIL.COM all the best from Gloria one of Mitzi's biggest fans

An ok film and great for Mitzi Gaynor fans. It seemed like a Calamity Jane wanna be... but Dennis Day, a pretty bland performer (albeit with a really good voice) and Mitzi are not a match for Howard Keel and Doris Day and an MGM production. It's the usual Hollywood totally fabricated biography, 90% fiction, so don't expect this to be a true story. One of the great things about Mitzi was that although she wasn't in the league of Cyd Charisse or Vera Ellen as a dancer....at least she did her own singing which made her a true all-around performer (her voice is not all that powerful, but it is pleasing). At 19, when this was filmed, her energy is boundless and when she's onstage, particularly with Dennis Day, he becomes invisible.She is cute, talented and this really was her first chance to strut her stuff.

I have always liked Mitzi and I think she was one of the prettiest, and definitely the spunkiest, actresses of the time. The movie is fun but in no way historically accurate. For example: in the movie Lotta is 16 when she begins to perform. In reality she was only 6. In the movie her father is a gambler and ex-vaudevillian, he was actually an ex-bookseller who, with his wife, opened a boarding house in Grass Valley, California, during the gold rush. In the movie she sees Lola Montez for the first time on stage, actually she and her family were neighbors with Lola and Lotta spent many hours learning how to sing and dance from her. At the end of the film it is obvious that she will marry her fiancé, Tom Richmond. In real life she remained single. If you overlook the historical inaccuracies the movie is great.

Mitzi Gaynor as Lotta Crabtree, real-life Civil War-era chanteuse whose starstruck ambitions and songbird talents took her from her family's humble boarding-house to stages across the country. Fame-and-footlights drama designed for impressionable young girls of the 1950s, with old-fashioned songs and humor, Gaynor displaying the requisite spunk. Una Merkel is wearing as Lotta's disapproving mother, male supporting cast equally mediocre, while the Oscar-nominated song "Never" is practically buried underneath umpteen choruses of "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers". Directed in a perfunctory manner by Lloyd Bacon, who probably had one eye on the clock. *1/2 from ****

How could I have lived 61 years & not properly appreciated the talent & beauty of Mitzi Gaynor? She was great...she has the rare ability to present innocence, freshness, and be quite sexy....what a lady. The story of the Bella Union, or at least some of it was fascinating to me. I only wish there had been something said of her visit to Tombstone Arizona, the Birdcage Theater, which also hosted Eddie Foy, shortly after Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday spent evenings in the, then new, Birdcage. Could anyone elaborate on the historical accuracy of her relationship with a Southern Officer? Since she never married, it leaves one wondering. This movie, along with South Pacific will initiate many searches/viewings of Mitzi Gaynor movies. Does anyone here have any further info on Mitzi Gaynor's present activities....still making appearances?....healthy?

In common with a fellow reviewer I saw this movie as a teenager.I remember it vividly, probably THE FILM which made the deepest impression on my young mind. I would really love for my grown children to see it.Yes I have moved on to appreciate much more sophisticated movies,in fact have little time for the majority of films made today. GOLDEN GIRL is-was a really good feel movie that has stayed with me for fifty years. I may add that few persons have seen anything like the number of films I have devoured in my lifetime.To films every day, three-hundred and sixty days a year. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to order a DVD of this movie or if anyone would part with their copy? Lets form a Golden Girl fan club? Lyn Kristensen Oslo Norway