Ugh, Bea wouldve made a FABULOUS Disney villain 😍

@BabaEjo88

2 ай бұрын

YES!

@HauntFreak13

2 ай бұрын

Pat Carroll was perfect as Ursula but Bea would’ve killed it too

@scottu.5365

2 ай бұрын

Bea was actually offered Ursula, well, her agent was given the option and turned it down for Bea apparently. Next in-line was Elaine Stritch, she didn't work out, then Pat Carroll came in and killed it

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

​@@HauntFreak13they chose Pat because she had the same sound as Bea. I wish Bea said yes, then two of my Disney favorites would have also been from the same musical. Bea as Ursula and Angela as Mrs. Tea Pot

These two together is awesome.

Sometimes I feel self-conscious about my very low voice. Then I watch this, and I remember how fabulous it is to be a girl with a husky voice.

@AnnetteSparkle

Жыл бұрын

I always wished for a husky voice, especially as a child - like the great Kathleen Turner 💕

@bobbylcraig

Жыл бұрын

Just don't smoke two packs a day.

@tomtalker2000

11 ай бұрын

@@bobbylcraig Yes Bea and Lucy were heavy smokers.

@memyselfandeye76

10 ай бұрын

Bea and Lucille's baritone voice is attributable to cigarettes. Not sure why but it has a different sound than a deep voice that occurs naturally. That being said, I have one too, and I learned to appreciate it as I got older.

@johnpickford4222

9 ай бұрын

@josettedaejung6309: Beatrice Arthur naturally had a low voice but Lucille Ball smoked worse than a polluted chimney-about 3 or 4 packs/day-which was the cause of her low voice. She did so much damage to it that she couldn’t be dubbed. In addition the excessive smoking weakened the cells in her face creating the sagged line look that required a soft filter throughout the film. The smoking also affected her breathing and therefore her interpretation of the songs. A terrible choice to play the role even if she paid $2 million of the $14 million film cost (about 14.3%). Too bad 20th Century Fox didn’t let her buy the title role in CLEOPATRA as they could have saved millions 😂

Bea Arthur has so much presence. She just jumps out on the screen as a star.

The fact that Lucy and Bea are in the same thing makes me happier. Lucy was an icon.

i'm in love with bea's singing

@jessicalillianweinberg4401

4 жыл бұрын

I knew she played Vera Charles but I had to kind of take a second look / listen to be sure it was really her. SUCH a different look from Dorothy Z.

@angelbrown7556

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@claudermiller

3 жыл бұрын

Actually Bea would have been a better Mame.

Beas wit was superb

I adore Bea’s voice

Bea is so beautiful....

Bea’s voice is so goood

@joannetailor4094

2 ай бұрын

Aĺl I ever want to see is this or something similar. Not today's crap

If "frenemies" were a movie scene. Love it!!!

Despite what has been said negative about the movie and Lucille Ball (Bea hated it btw) - I still think it was one of the best feature length movie musicals I've ever seen and I thought Lucille and Bea were wonderful in this film. I absolutely fell in love with it the first time I saw it - no apologies. It is a fine piece of work in my estimation.

@jmd26

5 жыл бұрын

I think Mame, like West Side Story, works despite having a flawed lead. I don't think Richard Beymer is very good in WSS at all, and Natalie Wood is just passable. However, WSS is still a classic due to the music, the dancing, and Rita Moreno. I don't think the movie version of Mame is a classic, but I enjoy watching it. Randy Man, NEVER apologize for liking anything! : - )

@nonenoneonenonenone

4 жыл бұрын

@@jmd26 That's true, and part of what killed musicals for me, is the constant casting of actors who could not really sing or dance, who did not really belong in a musical. And, not trusting the choreography, so putting dance numbers in vernacular settings with vernacular props.

@jusssayin480

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you haven't seen many good movie musicals.

@sevenwatson5854

Жыл бұрын

I love Bea but the best musical is Hello Dolly with Barbra!

@BobChippewa

Жыл бұрын

The movie bombed at the box office big time

I think that they were fabulous.

I expected to hate Lucy, but like her, and them, in this song. Bea Arthur shows her usual brilliance of course.

Two of the greatest comediennes (before everyone became simply “comedians”) of them all, their timing was always impeccable, and they were unafraid of pushing the envelope to hitherto unimaginable lengths. Without those two, all that followed may never have been.

Miss old musicals...

This would have to be the best bitch session in movies, probably in history! Terrifically performed by two of the best female entertainers of this age. Love it and never tire of them performing and camping it up. Rest in peace ladies you will be remembered long after many others are gone.

@csm92459

8 ай бұрын

Garry--If you want a great cat fight watch "The Mirror Crack'd" with Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, Elizabeth Taylor and KIm Novak. The scene where Kim "crashes" Taylor's party has got some of the best insults on film! "Love your outfit darling. What are you supposed to be--a birthday cake? Too bad everyone's already had a piece." kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKR8qsyKcrWag5M.html

@joannetailor4094

2 ай бұрын

Can't agree more

We need this era of film to come back.

How amazing to see my two idols perform together. My heart can't take it. I miss dearly these two so much!!

@johnpickford4222

Жыл бұрын

Get yourself to the hospital but only to have your sight, hearing and common sense checked. This film sucked!

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

It would have been better with Angela Lansbury and Bea.

Just discovered this gem. Of all versions of Auntie Mame, this is my favorite 🏆! 💓

Idc what no one say, I think Bea would've made a damn good album!

This is the best example of underplaying for effect I’ve ever seen. Both of them in top form. This is a masterclass. ❤️❤️❤️

wonderful wonderful wonderful! Oh how I wish we could have seen more of Bea Arthur.

Omg Bea is gorgeous !

Dorothy Zbornak and Lucy Ricardo...

@gandhiroupoulas

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Lucy why are you in your mame costume? It’s Been almost 46 years since this movie was made *Lucy replies* because you don’t care what I wear and I don’t care about your opinion *slaps lucy* SHADY PINES

@georgearmantrout6591

4 жыл бұрын

Cary grant movies

@gandhiroupoulas

4 жыл бұрын

What about it?

Best thing about the movie.

The shade of it aaaallllll thats a friendship lol

Dear Lord, how I miss these ladies! Fantastic!

GLORIOUS

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. This version is one of my all time favs.

@ds2465

Жыл бұрын

@@johnpickford4222 Oh shut up. If she likes it, she likes it.

@demon2051

Жыл бұрын

Really?

I loved this movie. As a child, I saw it on the big screen at the beautiful Radio City Music Hall.

So f'n purrrfect. Love both u gals!

Ugh how good this would have been with Angela Lansbury!

@cliff9685

5 жыл бұрын

frumaatholoid she would have energized the movie, but this movie also need more help than just Lansbury. It had a 70s feel about it, just something off about it

@RaymondHng

5 жыл бұрын

You'll have to settle with this. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iI120Zeepc-_l6Q.html

@rickredmond9847

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/qpWLlbuNcd3RiKQ.html

@antmagor

4 жыл бұрын

frumaatholoid I would defend the honor of the late Lucille Ball, but it’s like the song says “But who else but a bosom buddy will tell you the whole stinking truth.“

@cassdaley2652

4 жыл бұрын

Bea was the only good thing about this movie. Angela would have completely saved this movie. Lucille just couldn’t sing and especially not at this point.

Wow, nice editing in that section. Bravo.

This is everything! Love it! Yasss, 2 Legends at their BEST!!! Bea looks beautiful.

thanks for including the deleted part

Oddly enough, Bea Arthur had an episode of the Golden Girls where Betty White and Rue McClanahan were busy watching "I Love Lucy".

@marblebongos2794

Жыл бұрын

Who did Lucy play again?

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

​@@marblebongos2794Lucy played Lucy!

It still AMAZES me how much of a PRESENCE Lucy was! Bea Arthur, Carol Burnett, and ALL the women after owe everything to Lucy!!!

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

Not really. All those women owe it to Gracie Allen.

@michiganspencer6920

19 күн бұрын

@@minilea144 Lucille Ball was around long before Gracie Allen. In fact, one of the first appearances of Lucy was a Three Stooges short "Three Little Pigskins (1934). She was a Hollywood star in the 40's before her TV show. Her business Savvy and intelligence created Desilu Studios (which allowed a young writer - Gene Roddenbery - to produce a new series...Star Trek).

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

@@michiganspencer6920 I have NO idea where you got your information from. Gracie was from Vaudeville. By the time Lucy was born, Vaudeville had basically died down. Gracie had done shows in the 1920's and had multiple films under her belt. Not to mention, Lucy said Gracie and her husband George inspired her in comedy scene. She was trying to be a serious actress but chose a different path. So wherever you got that Lucille was around long before Gracie was, gave you false information.

@michiganspencer6920

19 күн бұрын

@@minilea144 I thought you were referring to women in TV. If you're including vaudeville and silent films, then Mabel Normand and Marion Davies predate Gracie as predominant comedic actresses.

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

@@michiganspencer6920 Mabel didn't precede Gracie. They were out around the same time. She also wasn't known for Vaudeville like Gracie was. She had a couple films under her belt but was mostly linked to scandals. And she passed away young. Marion came after Gracie, and wasn't known for comedy like Mabel or Gracie. She was molded/groomed by Hearst mostly playing damsel characters/romantic ladies. George and Gracie Allen started their show before I Love Lucy in 1949 on radio and 1950 on TV and lasted until 1958. Gracie is one of the rare who went from Vaudeville, to silent to talkies to radio to TV.

Bea's hat! I can't!

If this skit wasn't made for gay men everywhere then I clearly don't know what it was made for.

@rpghero46

4 жыл бұрын

i dedicated that song to my best gay bosom buddy.

@susaedu368

3 жыл бұрын

Two drag queens, Jinkx Monsoon and Alaska Thunderfuck made a terrific version of it. The video is here on KZread

@TradBarbie

3 жыл бұрын

40 year old widows 😊

@paulanthonyhoeflich8988

2 жыл бұрын

Sweetheart. This was made for us to replicate. With our gay bffs.

@dwhite3209

2 жыл бұрын

Hear hear!

Lucy ! Bea ! I have EVERYTHING Lucy ! Dools, books, plates, magazines ,snow globes, Bottles of Vitameatavegimin... Bea? Every season of Golden Girls, magazines and dolls...how I miss you !

i did not like the movie but i love this song .it reminds me of me and my best friend, we fight ,argue and insult (only in fun), but when we need each other we are there.

@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz

7 жыл бұрын

tara lang 1958 version with Rosland Russell is golden that's my all time favorite

@taralang8854

7 жыл бұрын

mine too rosalind russell made that movie great

@josettedaejung6309

2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the friendship between Dorothy and Trudy McMahon on GG.

Tears in my eyes

If you enjoy this, please treat yourself to Bea and Angela Lansbury performing this live at the Tony Awards. Seriously. It makes this version look like a high school musical.

NYC - Radio City Music Hall - Christmas 74 Show - Mother and I - what a grand outing it was.

@garyphillips7518

2 жыл бұрын

My father took me to the premiere at radio city music hall I was 9. Turned out to be the last big premiere they ever had.

@kaila62kaila

2 жыл бұрын

I think I was there too!

Once you learn that they slightly unfocused the shots of Lucille to help hide her age, you will never unsee it...

@TheCarnivalguy

6 жыл бұрын

Another trick was to place a light weight gauze like material over the lens of the camera.

@jmd26

5 жыл бұрын

It's called diffusion. A skilled and experienced director could get away with it. A talented director is able to play to the leading lady's vanity, using tricks with lighting and focus to take some years off of how she looks. That usually includes having some level of diffusion in all shots of a scene. When you ONLY have Lucy's close up shots and one person shots out of focus, and all the rest in focus, it's very obvious, and takes you out of the scene. It's exposes the leading lady's vanity, rather than hiding it. Lucy also had a system of taping behind her ears to make her face appear more taught, as she was afraid to go under the knife for plastic surgery. She actually looks pretty good here, all things considered. What's that quote from Sunset Boulevard? "There's nothing tragic about being 50, unless you're trying to be 25"

@antonewilson4310

2 жыл бұрын

Evidently she had her own camera operator who was expert at shooting her and he accompanied her on every production she was involved in.

@sekinsocal

2 жыл бұрын

Same with Doris Day

my 2 fav actresses ❤️❤️

Best frenemies song ever.

I love Bea Arthur and want a amazing actress and beautiful person on the inside and out. And I love Lucille Ball what an amazing actress and TV's greatest actress. She started the family TV show.. But if you really look closely at Lucille Ball and you will see what a stunning beautiful woman Lucille Ball was.... Lucille Ball was quite older in this movie. But what a beautiful woman she was you can just look at the TV shows and the movies and her pictures and see what a beautiful woman she was really was.. I hope when I die I get to meet Lucille ball. there's quite a few people that I would like to get to meet one day that have passed over. But she has to be top of my list...

I just love Bea outfit.

Lucy and Bea are brilliant. I love it that you've included a still where there's a section of music cut from the movie. I wonder if this footage exists. I love LUCY/MAME. Thank you! i

hugh jackman & ryan reynolds should do a cover of this song

Bea Arthur reminds me that I can still be gorgeous with a deep, husky voice. She was incredible ❤

I just viewed this after watching the official Warner Archive channel upload of the same scene, and it is truly astounding how much more magnificent the stereo rendition is. You did a great job blending the elements here (including the little notations for the extended and deleted sections). I would LOVE to see the entire film properly issued in true stereo.

@sgabig

6 ай бұрын

why was that specific verse deleted?

I can't stop thinking about how Bea's costume looks miserably uncomfortable and hot. Imagine wearing all that under those hot movie lights.

Omg this filled my heart ❤

Love those two Icons ❤

In a video interview with the Archive of American Television, Bea Arthur was asked if she had any career regrets - and she said her one regret was appearing in this movie. She said Lucille Ball was horribly miscast and being in this movie was an "embarrassment" for her.

@thomasmagnum3588

Жыл бұрын

I believe she only agreed to do it because her husband Gene Saks was directing.

They sure don’t make ‘em like this anymore !!!!!

Rip Lucy and Bea bosom buddies in heaven

Rarely seen...in stereo.....LAUGH!!!!

omg I know Bea Arthur just from Golden Girls :-)

Fantastic! I love her voices.

My favourite queens LoL especially Bea Thank you🌹🌹

The 2 funniest women/people that ever lived.

Incomparable … both of them.🍸🏳️‍🌈

Wonderful campery!!

Awesome!

Two classics...

I *adore* this.

Lucille's voice got so froggy from the chain smoking cigarettes. 😪

@InconvientNecessity

7 жыл бұрын

Did she smoke them or eat them

@annielookingglass4996

5 жыл бұрын

Brock Wayne NJ

@jamesjfisk4968

5 жыл бұрын

I don't really remember her voice being any less froggy in the 50s.

@Destroythenavel

5 жыл бұрын

By 1960 her voice was shot.

@demon2051

5 жыл бұрын

Back then People liked voices like that

Gotta love a man with a stache, and audio abilities... LOL

Thank you for sharing!

KZread really recommended this 50 years later 🤦🏾‍♀️

Still Funny!!

Oh GOD Thank you for this!!

It’s Great

Sounds great--you did a wonderful job. I wish the whole movie could be stereo-ized. :)

@hexum7

7 жыл бұрын

I wish the whole movie could be autotuned ( by whole, of course, I mean Lucy's parts) not t mention re-edited to get rid of some of the numbers tgat go on for far too long

Lucilles hat though!♥

Bea was my favorite and Angela should have been In the movie!!

One of my favorites no matter who plays mame. Is there a revival show yet?

when actresses could really sing and act and TV was good R.I.P Bea Arthur and Lucille Ball

@Anonymous-xm8ir

5 жыл бұрын

Lucille Ball couldn't sing, check out Angela Lansbury to hear a real singer

@Mxyzptlksac

4 жыл бұрын

Due to years of chain smoking Lucy’s voice was shot.

@angelgstag

3 жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-xm8ir You’re wrong. Lucille Ball could sing...she was on key, on time but her voice was very damaged from smoking and using it incorrectly during I Love Lucy and Wildcat. Just, don’t say that she “couldn’t sing”. That is not true.

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

​@@angelgstagshe could NOT sing. Most of what you hear was pieced together post production. The only singer there was Bea. Even Lucy said she couldn't really sing.

This is the song of frenemies.

Add Debbie Reynolds and Angela Lansbury and it would be absolutely legendary

Lucy really COULD sing :) Love it

@JoshuaBlogshua

7 жыл бұрын

I LOVE Lucy but she really can't sing. Watch a version with Dorothy Zbornak and Jessica Fletcher. There's a reason Ricky didn't want her in the show.

@13blanket

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Sophy Best comment I've seen in months.

@EricNorton627

7 жыл бұрын

Grayson Sparkman If Lucy had done this a decade and a half earlier she would have sounded much better. Shouting so the audience could hear her on the set of "I Love Lucy," coupled with raising her voice an octave so Lucy Ricardo would sound younger and more innocent and naive, followed by exhausting herself working on "Wildcat," and, of course, smoking three packs of cigarettes a day just destroyed her voice. Lucy was never a professional singer, but when she was younger she could at least sing competently.

@darreylhenderson8979

6 жыл бұрын

They actually had to piece her songs together, often each phrase was from a different take because her voice was so poor.

@mykel1990

5 жыл бұрын

She could sing where?

😧 She met Lucy ! Love her

These two women would have been great in Golden Girls together 😂

The reference to Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein confused me. Vera and Mame are not lovers.

Thank you Disney Ashman Demos III Gina...you'll always be my bosum buddy. Who else would understand why we have elephants in the jello?

Reunited at last ❤

Yes *Lawd* 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

I hate the bashing this movie gets. I thought the two of them were both fantastic in this number. I enjoy this film and i wont apologize.

Very good. I actually did 6 songs from the film onto a DVD-R, used the DVD release from the film and the Rhino soundtrack which is in true stereo, and those 6 songs actually match perfectly. How much better a musical is in stereo, even though I hate what Lucy did to some of these top Broadway songs. I wish Warner would have just used what they could do in stereo, and left the rest in mono, at least we would be able to watch the film on the new blu-ray and get SOME of the songs in stereo. It's Today syncs perfectly, but the title tune doesn't because it was shortened for the soundtrack album (sadly). That would have been a great number in stereo.

"section extend in film" damit, I knew I remembered a line that isn't there

I’m still trying to grasp that’s the lady from Golden Girls!😮

Wow this is sad compared to the Broadway version. However Bea is always a show stopper

@angelgstag

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the problem. If there wasn’t something to compare it too..it would have very different reviews. I never saw the Broadway show and I know Lucille Ball was not a singer but her character would have a voice like hers...raspy and rough. She was not off-key but people just keep comparing her to Angela Lansbury. I can’t imagine Angela looking as divine as Lucille Ball did in the movie!

@headofcosmospictures1232

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelgstag Lucy being cast as mame was only one of this movies many problems, the plot is really thin aswell

@minilea144

19 күн бұрын

​​@@angelgstagwhat are you talking about? She was not divine. Do you know how many flattering angles and Vaseline screens they did to make Lucy look good? Angela would have done just as well. She was always just as regal without all that foolishness. Had they remade it to be like the Roseland Russel version, Lucy might have done a way better job. Just as quirky just no songs.

oh GOD! i LOVE THAT SCENE...IF WISH YOU HADN'T CUT OUT THE FIRST PART "BEFORE" THEY STARTED TO SING. WHICH WAS SETTING UP THE SCENE. THAT WAS A MISTAKE. PLS DO THIS OVER AND INCLUDE IT. AS SOOOON AS THEY WALKED IN TO THE HOTEL BAR. BEA SITTING THERE... COME ON... IT MADE THE SINGING PART HYSTERICAL. TSK TSK. YOU GOOFE3D THIS UP.

Guess no one actually eats in this restaurant, eh...

The original Edina & Patsy

@infonut

Жыл бұрын

I am reminded of Algernon Moncrieff's response to John Worthing's statement regarding Gwendolyn and Cicely: John Worthing: "“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister." Algernon Moncrieff: "Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

Interesting how Bea Arthur's voice echoes on the lyric "My crony"; maybe because Lucy had to record her songs one line at a time. Actually, this is one of Lucy's better songs, and Bea sounds better than she does on the cast album because she can sing in a lower key she seems more comfortable with. But Lucy reciting lines like "Your voice is the voice of a frog" and "It's time to adjust to your age": talk about asking for it!