Product Details

• Actors: Jane Russell, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Meeker, Fred Clark, Una Merkel
• Directors: Norman Taurog
• Format: NTSC
• Studio: MGM/UA Video
• VHS Release Date: February 20, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000059ZWQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #406,947 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Likable Romantic Comedy, July 16, 2003

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lynn del sol "lynn_del_sol" (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

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Call me nuts. Maybe it's the 1957 beach bungalow replete with retro furnishings, but I thought this movie was loads of fun. Jane Russell plays a Hollywood Star who is abducted on the night her latest sizzler "The Kidnapped Bride" hits the screens. Keenan Wynn and Ralph Meeker play her likable kidnappers.

At first Russell tries to escape, but soon she realizes that if she *does* get away the public will think she's staged a cheap publicity stunt, and her career will be ruined--so she extracts a promise from Meeker and Wynn to make the kidnapping certifiably authentic.

Of course the obvious happens; Russell and Meeker start to fall for each other--he, trying harder and harder to prove that it is a real kidnapping to protect her career--she trying to find some way to make the whole thing look fake and keep him out of jail.

There were a couple of reasons I thought his film was a cut above the normal faire. For one thing, Russell's character is initially presented as a hard-headed business woman who just needs a tough enough guy to deliver true love--but Meeker plays against this stereotype. He's no softie--he slaps her in the beginning when she starts to treat the whole thing as a joke--but he's just...well...nice. Russell also plays against the stereotype, remaining cheerful and level headed throughout the film, and not letting love turn her into something mushy and "feminine."

Inevitably, the film's a bit dated. There are requisite scenes with policemen and agents and movie moguls, but for the most part they're kept mercifully short. By and large we get a picture of two rather ordinary and charming people who discover that by putting aside their normal lives they have a chance to find happiness together.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very predictable, paradoxable, enjoyable love story., May 12, 2002

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Lloyd A. Westbrook (Ringgold, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (Amazon.com Exclusive) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of those films that somehow grabs one. The first time I saw this movie was in 1964 late at night before all the
networks were filled with talkshows. There's something about
watching a movie late at night that endures a movie to one--The
Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is just such a movie. It's not an academy award winner, nor a tear-jerker, but it's just good clean predictable light-hearted romantic comedy. Can you just imagine being kidnapped by two "dangerous felons" and then shortly just before the police arrive to rescue you, you find yourself in love with your kidnapper. "Honest Sarge, no one but no one's gonna believe this." This is a motion picture for those who need a break from all the high powered violence on t.v. these days. There's only one problem with this movie, once you get used to the tracking problems with the video tape, you can actually watch the movie. It's so inexpensive that it's not
worth the effort to send it back, just purchase another one like I did and hope it plays back properly. But what does one expect for [the price]!

4.0 out of 5 stars Tragic Memory of Free Bubble Gum, January 11, 2008

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Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Loved seeing the long ago location shots of LA and the PCH--check out the mighty international airport, with its two terminals which must have seemed like a grand palace of aviation back then. I don't know about the house that Ralph Meeker and Keenan Wynn have holed up in. If that's a real house, it should be in all the guidebooks. Jane Russell doesn't get to sing much in this movie but she does wear three great outfits, including the fuzzy pink nightgown they give her to cover up her sex appeal. She carries on a delightful and extended exchange with Meeker about "bubble gum," a word coded with shades of meaning involving sexuality and the pursuit of pleasure to which she has devoted all her life, but he far too little. He complains that when he was a poor boy, there was one store in his neighborhood that would close on Sundays and holidays, and when it was closed, the kids wouldd read the sign in the window that said, "Free Bubble Gum," but when the store was open, the bubble gum was not free and it was stale to boot.

Jane Russell sums him up nicely saying that even though he's grown, he's still living his life like the embittered and cheated little boy he once was.

Later she tells him that the reason that he didn't try to make love to her while she was in his power is that maybe he doesn't like the flavor of bubble gum she offers to him!

I guess Hollywood must have been infected with bubble gum metaphors because right after we saw this show, we watched AUTUMN LEAVES and Joan Crawford keeps begging Cliff Robertson to date girls his own age but he sighs and tells her, he tried, but they were "jitterbugs" and "bubble gum addicts," chewing and popping the gum in his ear while they were in his arms on the dancefloor. Joan can't help cracking up at Cliff's woebegone expression as he describes these "bubble gum addicts."

In THE FUZZY PINK NIGHTGOWN (in beautiful black and white, with a percussive Billy May soundtrack that's out of this world), Ralph Meeker got one of his very few leading man parts. He's a revelation, hard as nails when he has to be, but soft and kittenish, wearing on fetching cashmere sweater after another. It's all about the masculinity in THE FUZZY PINK NIGHTGOWN, and Meeker proves that just like his name, he's enough man to be a woman when it feels right.