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The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
Directed by
William Gazecki
Not Rated
2014
1h 35m
Documentary
7.3
74%
60%
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A documentary focusing on the tumultuous early days of this iconic vaudeville superstar who ruled the 1920's Flapper Era in the United States.
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Cast of The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
Sophie Tucker
Self (archive footage)
Tony Bennett
Self
Carol Channing
Self
Kaye Ballard
Self
Shecky Greene
Self
Barbara Walters
Self
Chubby Checker
Self
Mickey Rooney
Self
Connie Stevens
Self
Jane Kean
Self
Mamie Van Doren
Self
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker Reviews
Newsday
John Anderson
Fewer and fewer people have a first-person memory of her, unless they're old enough to have watched Ed Sullivan, but William Gazecki's heartfelt portrait all but brings her back to life.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
I wish the film, which is mostly a standard-issue talking-heads-and-clips affair, had showcased more of her performing, but what we see still justifies her fleeting fame.
New York Daily News
Graham Fuller
This gossipy, affectionate movie about the daughter of Jewish Ukranian immigrants' rags-to-riches story and her survival as a star into the mid-1960s is a lot of fun. But it doesn't get under her skin.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
"The Outrageous Sophie Tucker" is an outrageously dull documentary. This is not the subject's fault.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
There are lots of archival clips, photos and interviews with celebrities who knew her, such as Tony Bennett and Barbara Walters.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A delightful, toe-tapping and illuminating tribute to Sophie Tucker.
EDGE Boston
Phil Hall
Sophie Tucker was a great talent that deserves a great film. This isn't it.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Strongest when reveals her innovations in musical style and marketing, weakest when it strings together anecdotes. . . Original materials are seen in constant montages.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
You will love every minute of this walk through show biz history.
Movie Dearest
Fr. Chris Carpenter
An important, generally enjoyable tutorial on a great show-woman's life. My only gripe against it is the too prominent played on film by biographers Lloyd and Susan Ecker, who also co-produced.
Mark Leeper's Reviews
Mark R. Leeper
portrait of an indomitable woman, punctuated with her songs and her monologues
Boston Herald
James Verniere
A fascinating, archeological piece of showbiz history.
Boston Globe
Loren King
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker is rich with such tall tales and juicy nuggets, befitting a larger-than-life icon.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Though placing the cheerleading Eckers front and center as key interview subjects gives their film a self-congratulatory, gee-whiz quality, "Outrageous" compensates by giving you a good sense of who Tucker was and how she got where she did.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The movie isn't especially well made, yet because Tucker is such a gloriously rich figure - immigrant turned runaway mother turned vaudevillian turned superstar - she renders its formal and aesthetic shortcomings (mostly) irrelevant.
Village Voice
Abbey Bender
Though some more exploration of Tucker's influence would be welcome, the documentary does make fine use of archival materials culled from Tucker's immense collection of scrapbooks from every year of her career ...
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
The "Last of the Red Hot Mamas" has lapsed into showbiz obscurity, something that William Gazecki's loving documentary clearly hopes to correct.
Battleship Pretension
Dayne Linford
Distant, admiring, by the numbers, and completely devoid of character.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
The film bombards the viewer with too many snippets from the six decades' career, a number of them still photos from her 400-plus scrapbooks and some jazzed up in hokey animation.
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