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Title: One of the worst musicals ever made!
Review: Lucy is great on TV, but she cannot be the kind of mega star needed to put this material across. She doesn't have that great chraisma of Roz Russell, or Angela Lansbury, who should have been in this film.It is dead from the beginng, no life at all, and Lucy seems to know it.Did Auntie Mame ever really need music? Esp. of this awful sort?? Roz Russell reigns over all remakers and their casts. Her film is IT, and Herman and Lucy should have known better.I saw Lucy in Wildcat years ago..very funny, very unconventional,but limiting. Her kind of comedy is in the Marx Bros. tradition; and this is her genuius, not this stuff. Even Angela L. had trouble with Mamme's terrible lyrics and serious moments.Poor Lucy..she needed a better attraction than this, and the director, notoriously bad.Forget this and go to Roz Russell and Lucy's TV show from the 50's, not the later shows from the 60's, which have Mameish qualities that are best avoided.
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