Gilda Live
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Mike Nichols |
| Written by | Anne Beatts Lorne Michaels Marilyn Suzanne Miller Don Novello Michael O'Donoghue Gilda Radner Paul Shaffer Rosie Shuster Alan Zweibel |
| Produced by | Lorne Michaels |
| Starring | Gilda Radner |
| Cinematography | Ted Churchill |
| Edited by | Ellen Hovde |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Gilda Live is a 1980 American comedy musical film starring Gilda Radner, directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Lorne Michaels.[1] Radner and Michaels and all of the writers involved with the production were alumni from the television program Saturday Night Live.
Summary
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Gilda Live is a filmed version of the comedic one-woman show performance of Gilda Radner Live on Broadway. Originally titled Gilda Radner: Live from New York and renamed Gilda Live for the film debut.[2] The show had success as a play but the film itself and the record album as well, both released in March 1980, were flops with critics and the public. The Gilda Live film was shot in Boston a few weeks before the start of Saturday Night Live's fifth season in 1979. It was decided not to film it in New York because of union problems. More footage for the film was shot at The Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 1979.
The film itself was a collection of Radner's most popular Saturday Night Live characters and sketches. It included Roseanne Roseannadanna, Emily Litella, Candy Slice, Judy Miller, Lisa Loopner, Nadia Comăneci, and Rhonda Weiss, and many other skits and performances such as "Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals," which was more risque than the original TV version, as this version was the only scene that got the film an R rating, "I Love to Be Unhappy", "Goodbye Saccharine" and "Honey (Touch Me with My Clothes On)". Skits were also performed by Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci.[2] The tagline to the film was: "Things like this only happen in the movies."
Cast
[edit]- Gilda Radner as Self / Various Characters
- Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci
- Paul Shaffer as Don Kirshner / Arnie Schnachtman / Student Body President / The Candy Slice Group
- Nils Nichols as Roadie
- Bob Christianson as Audition Scene Pianist
- Howard Shore as The Candy Slice Group
- Diana Grasselli as Rouge
- Myriam Valle as Rouge
- Maria Vidal as Rouge
VHS and DVD information
[edit]Gilda Live has been released on VHS and was digitally remastered in 2000, and released on DVD through Warner Brothers' on-demand Warner Archive label on November 3, 2009.[3]
Critical reception
[edit]The New York Times wrote, "Nothing in "Gilda Live" is funnier than, or a substantial departure from, the material Gilda Radner does on "Saturday Night Live." But the film ought to satisfy her fans."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Erickson, Hal (2015). "Gilda Live". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-12-25.
- ^ a b c Maslin, Janet (March 28, 1980). "Screen: Gilda Radner:A Revue of Repertory". The New York Times.
- ^ "Gilda Live". warnerbros.com.
External links
[edit]- Gilda Live at IMDb
- Gilda Live at the TCM Movie Database
- Gilda Live at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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- Saturday Night Live films
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