Gypsy [VHS]

by (Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Sr.) (Producer: Mervyn LeRoy) (Editor: Philip W. Anderson) (Writer: Arthur Laurents) (Writer: Gypsy Rose Lee) (Writer: Leonard Spigelgass)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Product Group: Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
ISBN: 6305128359
EAN: 9786305128359
UPC: 085391675532
Binding/Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 143 minutes
Release Date: 1998-10-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
SKU: 052609009
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Comes in original slip-case. VHS tape in good condition. All items ship from a smoke-free home.

Editorial Reviews

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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

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