The sweet wears off of most women's faces as the reflection of her beauty and favor, fades in the eyes of her disappearing admirers, only to be replaced by her duplicity and manipulative intrigues. And soon, doors no longer open themselves and sympathy is lucky to be replaced by even pity.
Poor Patty Duke. She loathed her director in that film and he gave it right back to her. She writes in CALL ME ANNA that the film's producers took the cast on a cruise ship--along with Jacqueline Susann--and premiered the movie on the boat. Unfortunately, the film ran fast and people's voices came out high-pitched and goofy. However, once VOTD was in general release it made a fortune. I would like to see an honest-to-goodness remake of it, one that more closely follows events in the novel. The casting in the original was pretty much right on but the performances were so uniformly terrible that you just had to sit in the theater and suspend your disbelief while holding your nose. Not to mention the cheap shaky sets and an audience of four old men showing up for Helen Lawson's "Big Night." One of the set pieces on stage had dirty fingerprints all over it. Were the director, the cast and the entire crew on Quaaludes? Almost unbelievable that so trashy a product could be released in the USA as a full-length movie, and even more unbelievable that it could earn back all the money it did. As ever, people all over the world are starving for thrills.
WHAT'S with the hair-dos in this movie? Their hair was always huge when they were drunk or high, and then it just flattened out like a tire when they sobered up. And WHAT was with the bizarre hairpieces or "falls" as they were called in the USA? Imagine wearing ten pounds of fake hair, plus some sort of gigantic headgear, then having to walk around in a bathing suit and stilettos. What? What?
People be trying to make Flo and Mary the star of the show. It's crazy cause the only thing interesting about them is their connection to Diana who carried them to the top...but you all want to make the backup singers the stars...you all be lowkey hating Diana....she was skin and bones from all the pressure...to not make a mistake. Berry was harder on her than anyone else that's why she had an eating disorder but she gets no sympathy from you all...that sympathy goes to Mary and Flo only...if it wasn't for Diana we wouldn't even know who they are.
I came here after seeing a Swedish version of this sung by the British-American singer. Sarah Dawn Finer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a9IhM6uExo4.html
She looks older here than she did when she did SoM and in the 1970s. She changed her hairstyle completely by then so that it was short, bobbed, with a fringe framing her face. It was a much better look and softened her features. The singing is superb, obviously.
This may have been the last time we heard her voice before the permanent damage shortly aftetr in Hong Kong. What a tragic trip, the beginning of her last leg.
All these years later, such a beautiful song and a wonderful feeling. I’m almost 60 in for the first time. I did a waltz to this song and it was like a dream come true for a young girl in an old woman’s body thank you.
The three gems were always on, and had a magical formula together. And always professional live and in career. An interesting thing is their look here, one of their more different looks - an island, Polynesian type of style, very chill. A different style, yet still very Supremes.
