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The Outrageous Sophie Tucker

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The wild early days of the vaudeville superstar.

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The Outrageous Sophie Tucker

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John Anderson Newsday 08/13/2015
3/4
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. Go to Full Review
Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor 07/24/2015
B
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. Go to Full Review
Odie Henderson RogerEbert.com 07/24/2015
2/4
"The Outrageous Sophie Tucker" is an outrageously dull documentary. This is not the subject's fault. Go to Full Review
Dayne Linford Battleship Pretension 01/14/2021
Distant, admiring, by the numbers, and completely devoid of character. Go to Full Review
Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics 07/24/2015
9/10
You will love every minute of this walk through show biz history. Go to Full Review
Phil Hall EDGE Boston 07/24/2015
2/5
Sophie Tucker was a great talent that deserves a great film. This isn't it. Go to Full Review
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05/09/2017 not the most exciting doc as far as how its made but the subject is so cool, not to mention old and not so well remembered, that its well worth a look...if ur into show biz history, vaudeville, female performers, etc and its good for getting ready for the 50th julesworks follies live variety show tonight at Jean Cocteau Cinema! See more 12/25/2016 This is how you do a biographical documentary! A true love letter to the great Sophie Tucker, covering 60 years of her amazing career. The soundtrack is fantastic with her old recordings being remastered and cleaned up. I loved it. See more 08/23/2015 Who was Sophie Tucker? Beats me and I just sat through THE OUTRAGEOUS SOPHIE TUCKER. This doc is so bad, so inane, it belongs on the list of films where you ask, "Have these people ever seen a movie?" Poor Sophie deserves much better than this. See more Gaspar M 08/01/2015 Really a great documentary about a legend in show business and what a little perseverance, talent and uniqueness is all about. I highly recommend this one. See more 08/01/2015 Wonderful historical footage from the career of a giant in history of show business. Too much of the producers See more 07/30/2015 The "critics" are nuts and Sophie would have told them so. A really really interesting documentary that was fun and entertaining about a bigger than life personality. There is no problem with the movie other than there was as much movie or video that one would want to see. But, look when she lived! She was born before, radio, movies, TV, and the internet. Get a life movie critics. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis The wild early days of the vaudeville superstar.
Director
William Gazecki
Producer
Lloyd Ecker, Susan Ecker
Production Co
Innovative Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 8, 2016
Runtime
1h 36m
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