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Gypsy

  • 19621962
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  • 2h 23m
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7.0/10
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Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Rosalind Russell, and Paul Wallace in Gypsy (1962)
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Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
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    • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Arthur Laurents(based upon the stage play: book by)
    • Gypsy Rose Lee(from the memoirs of)
    • Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Rosalind Russell
    • Natalie Wood
    • Karl Malden
    • Mervyn LeRoy
    • Arthur Laurents(based upon the stage play: book by)
    • Gypsy Rose Lee(from the memoirs of)
    • Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Rosalind Russell
    • Natalie Wood
    • Karl Malden
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 92User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 3 Oscars

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    "Gypsy" Karl Malden, Natalie  Wood 1962/Warner Bros.
    "Gypsy" Rosalind Russel, Ben Lessy, Karl Malden. 1962 Warner Bros.
    "Gypsy" Rosalin Russell 1962 Warner Bros.
    "Gypsy," Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, and Karl Malden 1962 Warner Bros.
    "Gypsy," Rosalind Russell 1962 Warner Bros.
    "Gypsy" Natalie Wood and Rosalind Russell 1962 Warner Bros.
    "Gypsy," Karl Malden, Rosalind Russell, and Natalie Wood 1962 Warner Bros.
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    Natalie Wood as Gypsy Rose Lee in "Gypsy," 1962.
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    Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell
    • Rose Hovick
    Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood
    • Louise Hovick
    Karl Malden
    Karl Malden
    • Herbie Sommers
    Paul Wallace
    Paul Wallace
    • Tulsa
    Betty Bruce
    • Tessie Tura
    Parley Baer
    Parley Baer
    • Mr. Kringelein
    Harry Shannon
    Harry Shannon
    • Grandpa
    Morgan Brittany
    Morgan Brittany
    • 'Baby' June
    • (as Suzanne Cupito)
    Ann Jillian
    Ann Jillian
    • 'Dainty' June
    • (as Ann Jilliann)
    Diane Pace
    • 'Baby' Louise
    Faith Dane
    • Mazeppa
    Roxanne Arlen
    Roxanne Arlen
    • Electra
    Jean Willes
    Jean Willes
    • Betty Cratchitt
    George Petrie
    George Petrie
    • George
    Ben Lessy
    Ben Lessy
    • Mervyn Goldstone
    Guy Raymond
    Guy Raymond
    • Pastey
    Louis Quinn
    Louis Quinn
    • Cigar
    Trudi Ames
    Trudi Ames
    • Scottish Girl in Uncle Jocko Scene
    • (uncredited)
      • Mervyn LeRoy
      • Arthur Laurents(based upon the stage play: book by)
      • Gypsy Rose Lee(from the memoirs of)
      • Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Before the decision was made to dub most of her vocals, Rosalind Russell attempted to do her own singing. The results are an extra feature on the soundtrack CD. After Ethel Merman died, a tape of the Russell recordings was found in a box in Merman's closet. Merman, furious that she had not been cast in the film, evidently kept a copy of the Russell vocals as a strange, somewhat vengeful consolation prize.
    • Goofs
      During the birthday party scene, when the landlord comes in the shadow of a boom mike is visible on the wall.
    • Quotes

      Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: I said, turn it off! Nobody laughs at me! Because I laugh first. At me! Me, from Seattle! Me, with no education. Me, with no talent, as you kept reminding me my whole life! Well, Mama look at me now. I'm a star! Look! Look how I live! Look at my friends! Look where I'm going! I'm not staying in burlesque! I'm moving, mabye up, maybe down! But wherever it is, I'm enjoying it. I'm having the time of my life! Because for the first time, it is my life! And I love it. I love every second of it! And I'll be damned if you're gonna take it away from me! I am Gypsy Rose Lee! And I love her! And if you don't, you can just clear out now!

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits are superimposed on a closed stage curtain, below which is an orchestra and conductor, performing the film's overture. The overture has been truncated from the stage version's original overture, but is otherwise quite faithful to it.
    • Alternate versions
      The song "Together, Wherever We Go", along with the second duet part of "You'll Never Get Away from Me" was cut after the film was first released and was, for the most part, forgotten (both songs feature Karl Malden). it was supposed that all prints of these songs had disinigrated (the video version even says that they are no longer available). Recently, a film collector was found who had an old print of Gypsy with these songs intact but in very poor condition. They are included on the dvd in the "bonus" section.
    • Connections
      Featured in Superstar (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Let Me Entertain You
      (1959) (uncredited)

      Music by Jule Styne

      Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

      Performed by Ann Jillian and Morgan Brittany

    User reviews92

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    8/10
    Interesting, Lively Fictionalized Biography; Fascinating...
    "Gypsy" is a very difficult movie to have achieved from a writer's standpoint. As is true of "Dr. Zhivago" and "The Searchers", much of the film is told from the point of view of a younger person, who serves as the viewer's alter ego within scenes while the central character does little. This book, play and film was the result of Rose Louise Hovick's biography of herself and her mother before and at the beginning of her celebrity as "Gypsy Rose Lee", burlesque icon. The film is filled with famous songs and comedy scenes, alternating with moving confrontations that for once gain by having been real ones. Among the songs are "Some People", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "All I Need is the Girl" and "You Gotta Have a Gimmick", "Small World" and more. The memorable comedic scenes involve the repetition of Dainty June and her boys coming onstage in various guises, with a two-person cow dancing behind her; the three strippers who try to teach Louise how to succeed; the children singing, "Momma Get Married"; and "Please Mr. Goldstone" in gratitude to the producer who inexplicably likes their corny act. The moving scenes are Herbie, Mama's boyfriend, trying to convince her to give up her hard-minded pursuit of show business fame, Louise realizing the girl a young boy dancer says he needs is not she; her realization just before she goes onstage at a burlesque theater at her mother's insistence that she has one talent--she is a pretty girl, etc. the songs by Jule Styne all work, but only some are classics. the direction of the film by Mervyn LeRoy is very good, economical, and only occasionally look staged the device of theatrically closing out a scene by artificially dimming the lights for me works in this fictionalized biography; we get as viewers the feeling we are seeing glimpses of an interesting life, partly because of this device. Costumes by Orry-Kelly, Howard Shoup and others, the cinematography of Harry Stradling, Sr., excellent period sets, art direction and more are major assets to this colorful but never-splashy musical success. not the last of director LeRoy's here is that we see theatrical scenes and scenes in a theater as well or better handled than in any other film I know. The actors including the three strippers, Faith Dane, Betty Bruce and Roxanne Arlen are wonderfully funny; Benny Lessy as Mr. Goldstone, Louis Quinn, Guy Raymond and Harry Shannon get all they can out of their small parts. the children who play Rose's girls are all good, particularly Ann Jillian as June. As Herbie, Karl Malden is energetic and first-rate at conveying his love and his desire for a normal life, for the children and himself. Natalie Wood is too thin-voiced to be great but she is a seasoned performer and underplays Louise intelligently. As Rose, Rosalind Russell occupies the active center of almost every scene. There is another way to play Rose other than as someone coldly obsessed with fame; I saw Giselle Mackenzie do the role onstage as a caring obsessive, one who would not be denied justice for her children as she was for herself. But Rosalind Russell is alternately brassy and wheedling, working everyone for exactly what she needs while pretending to be pushing for the sake of her daughters. She is intelligent, always interesting and frequently epic in her hunger for what has eluded her in her own performing career. And in "Rose's Turn" we see that her extraordinary charisma and courage were indeed something special. This is a show business biography of unusual believability and intelligence for all its laughter. And a memorable musical biography that works differently on film, but does work very effectively.
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    • Jul 15, 2005

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      • November 1, 1962 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Stage 19, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Mervyn LeRoy Productions Inc.
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