My Geisha (1962)
My Geisha (1962)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 7600 kbps | 8.1Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 Italian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #3 German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #4 French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #5 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: English, Danish, Spanish, German, Swedish, French, Italian, Norge
01:59:00 | USA | Comedy
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 7600 kbps | 8.1Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 Italian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #3 German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #4 French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #5 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: English, Danish, Spanish, German, Swedish, French, Italian, Norge
01:59:00 | USA | Comedy
Paul Robaix is a well known director, married to Lucy Dell, a famous movie star. Robaix wants to make a movie of the classic play Madame Butterfly, but he doesn't want his wife to play the leading part, as in his previous pictures. Producer Sam Lewis and Lucy Dell think up a scheme to get her in the picture after all. Lucy disguises as a Geisha, and gets the leading part in the picture. When Robaix finds out he gets so mad, he wants to divorce Lucy…
Director: Jack Cardiff
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yoko Tani, Tatsuo Saito, Tamae Kyokawa, Ichirф Hayakawa, Alex Gerry, Tsugundo Maki, George Furness, Junko Aoki, Nobuo Chiba, Marion Furness, Kazue Kaneko, Satoko Kuni, Mayumi Momose, Nariko Muramatsu, Akemi Shimomura, Kyфko Takeuchi, Akiko Tsuda
My Geisha (1962)
My Geisha (1962)
In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her husband. Shirley MacLaine stars as Lucy Dell, a comic actress married to equally successful director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand). Though Paul has found success creating comic vehicles for Lucy, he wants to expand his range by making a lavish adaptation of Madame Butterfly on location in Japan, using a local actress as the star. Lucy feels she can play the part just as well as any Japanese woman, and, with the help of the film's producer (Edward G. Robinson), she hatches a plot to prove it. She poses as Yoko Mori, an innocent young geisha on her way to joining a convent, and her husband is immediately determined to cast her. Of course, the masquerade proves more difficult than imagined, and things become especially complicated when Lucy's Hollywood playboy co-star (Robert Cummings) falls in love with her demure Yoko persona. Opting for mild, character-driven humor over farce, My Geisha provides a few knowing jibes at Hollywood and comfortable performances from MacLaine and Montand, but the film's treatment of Japanese culture will likely seem dated to modern audiences.
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My Geisha (1962)
"my geisha" is charming. suspend belief a bit, and one realises how good an actress shirley maclaine is and how convincingly she becomes a geisha.
the movie is fluff. but the attempt to parallel the plot to the libretto of "madama butterfly" is clever and almost successful. edward g.robinson as sharpless; maclaine as pinkerton, and montand as butterfly… it is a very literate attempt to use the sub-plot as the driver for the main plot.
there are moments when one is reminded of a doris day-rock hudson frolic - expected in a comedy from 1962. but there's also a real "edge" that comes from the characters being a little less than saccharine. as has been pointed out, the cinematography is quite sharp. so there is an air of substance to the production, and quality is evident.
in the end, though, one just should enjoy it.
~ spook95613
My Geisha (1962)
