My Geisha
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Actor: Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Shirley MacLaine, Yoko Tani, Yves MontandBrand: CARDIFF,JACK
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of My Geisha
DVD Review: Tokyo Razz
Summary: 2 Stars
With the possible exception of The Possession of Joel Delaney, easily MacLaine's most bizarre film. Here she's cast as a Hollywood slapstick queen who's so desperate to be taken as a serious actress that she secretly flies to the Orient and, unbeknownst to her film director husband (Yves Montand), poses as a geisha to land the lead in his movie production of Madame Butterfly.
Any resemblence to a remarkably similar I Love Lucy special of three years earlier (wherein Lucy and Ethel posed as geishas to fool their husbands while on vacation in Japan) is practically italicized. MacLaine's character has red hair, like Lucy Ball---and her character is even named "Lucy Dell." Need more convincing? Bob Cummings figures prominently in both the TV sitcom *and* this movie!
What might have proved amusing as the punchline to an outlandish '50's sitcom (husband doesn't immediately recognize wife under geisha drag, but when he does, turns tables on her--ha ha!) is weak tea stretched out to feature-length and played relatively straight. And despite being billed as a comedy (laughs are few and far between, even when intended), this is actually more of a soap opera, with MacLaine constantly fending off Cummings' advances while using her disguise to test her husband's fidelity. The jarring movie-within-a-movie climax (a sobbing MacLaine commits hari kari with a samurai sword--a buzz kill seen twice!) hardly adds to the fun; meanwhile, a dour Montand wanders through the proceeedings looking like he's just had a bout with a plate of bad sushi. Beautiful location cinematography just points up the artificiality of the rest of theproduction.
Ironically, just a year later, MacLaine would be much better served by the same trite disguised-lover plot (with Jack Lemmon as the masqueradee) in Billy Wilder's infinitely more entertaining Irma La Douce.
Description of My Geisha
When a director does not cast his wife as the lead in his new movie, a version of Madame Butterfly, she disguises herself as a geisha, lands the lead role, and finds herself the object of unwanted attention from the lecherous leading man.Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-DEC-2006
Media Type: DVD
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