The Outrageous Sophie Tucker

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Movie Info

The wild early days of the vaudeville superstar.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

William Gazecki
Producer:

Lloyd Ecker, Susan Ecker
Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 10, 2016
Runtime:

1h 36m

Cast & Crew

William Gazecki
Director

Lloyd Ecker
Producer

Susan Ecker
Producer

Phil Ramone
Executive Producer

Gene Schwam
Executive Producer

William Gazecki
Cinematographer

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Critic Reviews for The Outrageous Sophie Tucker

All Critics (20) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (6)

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.

August 13, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

John Anderson
Newsday
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.

July 24, 2015 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
She's a great character, so it's sad that "The Outrageous Sophie Tucker" isn't a better movie.

July 24, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
"The Outrageous Sophie Tucker" is an outrageously dull documentary. This is not the subject's fault.

July 24, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Odie Henderson
RogerEbert.com
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker is rich with such tall tales and juicy nuggets, befitting a larger-than-life icon.

July 23, 2015 | Full Review…

Loren King
Boston Globe
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.

July 23, 2015 | Full Review…

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
Distant, admiring, by the numbers, and completely devoid of character.

January 14, 2021 | Full Review…

Dayne Linford
Battleship Pretension
You will love every minute of this walk through show biz history.

July 24, 2015 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…

Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics
Sophie Tucker was a great talent that deserves a great film. This isn't it.

July 24, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Phil Hall
EDGE Boston
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.

July 24, 2015 | Full Review…

Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
A fascinating, archeological piece of showbiz history.

July 24, 2015 | Rating: B plus | Full Review…

James Verniere
Boston Herald
Strongest when reveals her innovations in musical style and marketing, weakest when it strings together anecdotes. . . Original materials are seen in constant montages.

July 24, 2015 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Nora Lee Mandel
Film-Forward.com

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