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Your Learning Zone - The Opposite Sex (1956)
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Starring: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller
Directed By: David Miller
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301980722
Format: Color
ISBN: 6301980727
Label: MGM/UA Home Video
Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video
Release Date: 1995-02-24
Running Time: 116
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
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Summary: The movie The Opposite Sex
Comment: Love the movie but I do wish the color quality of the video tape I purchased was better.
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Summary: DVD please!
Comment: I love both this movie and 'The Women'. Both are gorgeous to look at and entertaining besides. However, I wish that someone would either reissue this one on VHS (thereby making it so that normal people can buy it and not have to pay the inflated prices for used ones) or put it on DVD, which it deserves. AND if they could also, at the same time, make it widescreen. I so much hate full-screen versions of any movie.
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Summary: DVD PLEASE!
Comment: LOVE THIS STORY!!!! Please put it on DVD. Such catty fun, especially Joan Collins, in training for her future Dynasty role. Amazing cast and beautiful costumes, would love to wear one of those evening gowns!
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Summary: All Pros
Comment: After reading the Joan Blondell biography that came out last month I was anxious to see one of her films, so I put my hands flat on the TV screen and prayed, then switched on DVR and looked under "Guide" and lo and behold, THE OPPOSITE SEX was playing, and Robert Osborne foxy as ever was explaining to Turner audiences that MGM had originally planned this picture for Grace Kelly but instead she left the screen! I just can't picture her playing the part--not, at any rate, the part as written here. Then Osborne explained that Joseph Pasternak 9the producer) had it re-written fr Esther Williams who was going to be playing an ex swimming star who gave it all up to become Mrs. Steven Hilliard. Guess that's what happened to Esther Williams in real life, maybe she got the idea during the brief period she was "attached" to this script.
Anyhow when they scraped the bottom of the barrel and picked June Allyson, they made her an ex-singing star instead, one who has been "retired" for ten years but who picks up her old career when she discovers her husband (Leslie Nielsen) has been having an affair with Crystal Allen (Joan Collins) and she wants to show him up and, perhaps, to be her old self again after staying in the sidelights for ten years. When Matthew Kennedy wrote, in JOAN BLONDELL: A LIFE BETWEEN TAKES, that Blondell was so desperate for a part that she used her own daughter (who became June Allyson's stepdaughter when her dad, Dick Powell, left Joan to marry June) to beg June to give Joan a part--anyhow when I read that I saw red myself, remembering all the times I've been desperate, when I used a little girl to intercede for me with a powerful woman. And how I'd been used by men just like Joan Blondell was by not only Dick Powell but Mike Todd and what's his name too! So I was curious to see how June Allyson and Joan Blondell would be playing their scenes together. To their credit, they are pros and you would hardly even know! Joan has a hilarious ecene where she and Dolores Gray are sitting in a Broadway theater watching a musical number about bananas, and Joan (who is pregnant for the 7th time) is getting morning sickness as the chorus just keeps bringing out more and more bananas and singing about them. The expressions that cross her face are just hilarious. Finally she rushes past Dolores Gray and aghast theatergoers and wobbles running up the aisle to the ladies room of the theater, where Patty Duke is pulling the wig off Susan Hayward's head--oops, wrong movie--but not so wrong, because the famous VALLEY OF THE DOLLS scene between Neely O'Hara and Helen Lawson had its origin right here at Charlotte Greenwood's dude ranch when Dolores Gray finds out that she's losing her busband to--Ann Miller--and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is born.
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Summary: total bust
Comment: The movie in 1939 was witty and funny with the novelty of an all female cast. In typical 1950s style, they had to add color, men in the cast and characters that didn't quite fit. It didn't have to mimic the original movie but it's long, the musical numbers are not enjoyable. It seemed suited to the tastes of the day but it had nothing to do with Claire Boothe Luce's play or movie. Check out
The Women instead.
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