Product Details

• Actors: Lesley Ann Warren; Rita Moreno; Dianne Kay; Tony Curtis; Barry Primus; Kip Gilman; Howard Morris
• Directors: Steven Hilliard Stern
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Miracle Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 2, 2002
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001FUXRE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #83,585 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Three gorgeous dancers are hired for a new review in Los Vegas at Caesars Place. As the plot unravels, we see the girls going through various trails in their private lives as they prepare for the opening of the show. excellent performances, particularly by Lesley Ann Warren and Rita Moreno carry this too true to life drama.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile effort, especially from Lesley Ann Warren, April 12, 2005

By	Rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Portrait of a Showgirl (DVD)

An interesting melodrama, this production features Lesley Ann Warren, Rita Moreno and Dianne Kay as three dancers of differing skill levels who are hired for a new revue in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace, where the picture is set, and focusses upon various travails within their private lives as they prepare for the opening of their show, with the eponymous Warren's character deservedly garnering the most screen time. As a Broadway dancer recruited for the engagement, Warren plays high-stepping Jillian Brooks, whose need for success upon the stage is altered by her affairs of the heart, while Moreno portrays a veteran hoofer whose husband (Tony Curtis) is a sucker for entrepreneurial scam artists, and Kay is an inexperienced beauty queen from the Midwest. The film could easily have been much less engaging, as clichéd situations abound, but the episodic script is effectively utilized and includes a good deal of skillful dialogue, there is splendid editing by John Woodcock, and a strongly appropriate thematic underscore is provided by Jimmie Haskell, while the performance of the talented and generally underprized Warren goes beyond the expected implications stemming from her comeliness.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars for Lesley Ann and Rita fans only, April 12, 2005

By	Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Portrait of a Showgirl (DVD)

PORTRAIT OF A SHOWGIRL is the made-for-TV movie genre at it's trashy-best. Musical theatre veterans Lesley Ann Warren and Rita Moreno shine as two hard-boiled hoofers looking to make the 'Big Time' in Las Vegas.

If you're a fan of Lesley Ann and Rita, you'll adore this film. The picture quality is quite lousy, but just having this campy gem on DVD is a miracle in itself.

Not the girls' finest hour, but worth a look nontheless.

2.0 out of 5 stars DVD , September 18, 2007

By	Iwa Iniki "Kaiulanishinju" (California, USA) - See all my reviews

The picture quality on this DVD was terrible. I wish it had been better because it had a great cast.