A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show Saturday Night Live (1975).A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show Saturday Night Live (1975).A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show Saturday Night Live (1975).
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- TriviaThis was filmed at the same time as The Blues Brothers (1980), which created a conflict for Paul Shaffer. At the urging of Lorne Michaels, Shaffer chose to work on this film. His part in The Blues Brothers was given to Murphy Dunne, and John Belushi is said to have remarked, "Paul Shaffer is not a Blues Brother."
- GoofsFirst 7 + 5 = 12, but later 7 + 5 = 8, then back to 12 again on Miss Emily Litella's blackboard.
- Quotes
Father Guido Sarducci: That's forever. Forever. I know some Priests they say forever and ever. I really don't think the 'and ever' is necessary. Forever kinda covers it, you know. Forever means forever.
- Alternate versionsNBC edited 18 minutes from this film for its 1982 network television premiere.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Love, Gilda (2018)
- SoundtracksI Love to Be Unhappy
Lyrics by Gilda Radner
Music by Paul Shaffer
Above Average/South Fifth Avenue ASCAP
Featured review
See it on video--with one finger on the fast-forward button
For years I watched this movie on a personal videotape with all the dross edited out---most of which contains Don Novello (aka Father Sarducci) filling up time while Gilda Radner changes costumes backstage. Recently seeing the film "uncut", I cannot begin to say how Novello drags this down. He is the worst kind of unfunny comedian, with smug, pothead observations about life stemming from the obviousness of the human condition and dated bits of politics which are no longer topical. Radner, on the other hand, is amazing in her sets: rarely frantic or desperate for laughs, she plows right through if a joke happens to bomb. If only Hollywood could've tapped into this bottle of unabashed energy and self-delight, we might've seen Gilda in some hot comedies. Her takes on Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna are outrageously funny, her timing so sweet when she sings "The Way We Were" as Lisa Loopner, her wit sharp but always tempered with love. She clearly was one-of-a-kind, proving that Hollywood does make mistakes--one of them being its inability to turn this crowd-pleasing woman into a star. **1/2 from ****
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- moonspinner55
- Sep 1, 2001
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Джильда в прямом эфире
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,261,507
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $344,234
- Mar 30, 1980
- Gross worldwide
- $2,261,507
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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