VHS : Big Blonde (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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starring: Sally Kellerman, Victor Griffin, Harris Laskaway, Trey Wilson, Jess Osunadirected by: Kirk Browning
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780769727059
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0769727050
Label: Kultur Video
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 37342
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 01, 1980
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Description:
Sally Kellerman stars in Dorothy Parker's 1929 O. Henry Prize-winning short story which poignantly chronicles the decline of a vivacious showroom model and good-time party girl in the 1920's, who gives up her high-life for marriage with a travelling salesman (played by 'Third Rock from the Sun's' John Lithgow). When he turns out to be a hard-drinking philanderer, the marriage deteriorates; and the now-blowsy and dissolute aging flapper turns to drinking for solace, moving from man to man as she sinks into an alcoholic haze and a deep funk.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "What a sport, what a dancer, what a girl!"
Dorothy Parker's 1929 short story, transformed into a stage play under the direction of Kirk Browning in 1980, loses much of its impact in the transformation. Though the script, written by Ellen M. Violett, stays close to the action of the story, the sense of time and place--the Roaring Twenties in New York--is lost in this production. Parker wrote this story with mordant humor and malicious wit, presenting a free-spirited model who married, suddenly discovered that she loved being a housewife, ... Read More
Rating:  - Better than Cats!
I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats, I'd see it again and again.
Sally Kellerman (who I loved on the show MASH) is just simply awesome. She glows from head to toe. If she did not not win an Oscar for this role (or a Tony or a Steven or something), she should have.
The movie also has a great cast of supporting characters, Jason Richardson, whose role symbolizes the lost child in us all, does so with great conviction.
In a very small but well played role, ... Read More
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