Gilda Live

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Gilda Live

Directed by	Mike Nichols
Written by	Mike Nichols Anne Beatts
Starring	Gilda Radner
Cinematography	Ted Churchill
Editing by	Ellen Hovde
Release date(s)	1980
Running time	96 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Gilda Live is an American film released in 1980 starring Gilda Radner. It was directed by Mike Nichols and was produced by Lorne Michaels. Radner and Michaels and all of the writers involved with the production were alumni from the television program Saturday Night Live.

[edit] Summary

Gilda Live is a film of the comedic one-woman show performance of Gilda Radner Live on Broadway. Originally titled "Gilda Radner: Live From New York" (renamed "Gilda Live" for the film debut), it had a steady success as a play but the movie itself and the record as well, both released in March 1980, were complete flops with critics and the public. The Gilda live movie was shot in Boston a few weeks before the start of Saturday Night Live's 5th season (late summer/early autumn of 1979). (It was decided not to film it in New York because of union problems). More footage for the film was shot at The Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 1979. The film itself was basically a rehash (although a little more risque, as the film was rated R) of Radner's most popular Saturday Night Live characters and sketches. It included Roseanne Roseannadanna, Emily Litella, Candyslice, Judy Miller, Lisa Loopner, Nadia Komonich, and Rhonda Weiss, and many other skits and performances such as "Let's Talk Dirty To The Animals", "I Love To Be Unhappy", and "Honey (Touch Me With My Clothes On)". Skits were also performed by Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci. The tag line to the film was: "Things like this only happen in the movies."

[edit] VHS/DVD Info

Gilda Live has been released on VHS and was digitally remastered in 2000, but it has not been remastered out on to DVD form and the VHS went out of print as of 2002. However, it is still available from different sellers on certain commercial websites.