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The Opposite Sex (1956) | 
| Director: David Miller
Actors: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
Category: Video
Buy Used: $35.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 6212
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 116
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301980727
UPC: 027616213433
EAN: 9786301980722
ASIN: 6301980727
Release Date: February 24, 1995
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Condition: Good condition Original box in hardcase. International airmail shipping
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 DVD PLEASE! July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
LOVE THIS STORY!!!! Please put it on DVD. Such catty fun, especially Joan Collins, in training for her future Dynasty role. Amazing cast and beautiful costumes, would love to wear one of those evening gowns!
All Pros December 11, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
After reading the Joan Blondell biography that came out last month I was anxious to see one of her films, so I put my hands flat on the TV screen and prayed, then switched on DVR and looked under "Guide" and lo and behold, THE OPPOSITE SEX was playing, and Robert Osborne foxy as ever was explaining to Turner audiences that MGM had originally planned this picture for Grace Kelly but instead she left the screen! I just can't picture her playing the part--not, at any rate, the part as written here. Then Osborne explained that Joseph Pasternak 9the producer) had it re-written fr Esther Williams who was going to be playing an ex swimming star who gave it all up to become Mrs. Steven Hilliard. Guess that's what happened to Esther Williams in real life, maybe she got the idea during the brief period she was "attached" to this script.
Anyhow when they scraped the bottom of the barrel and picked June Allyson, they made her an ex-singing star instead, one who has been "retired" for ten years but who picks up her old career when she discovers her husband (Leslie Nielsen) has been having an affair with Crystal Allen (Joan Collins) and she wants to show him up and, perhaps, to be her old self again after staying in the sidelights for ten years. When Matthew Kennedy wrote, in JOAN BLONDELL: A LIFE BETWEEN TAKES, that Blondell was so desperate for a part that she used her own daughter (who became June Allyson's stepdaughter when her dad, Dick Powell, left Joan to marry June) to beg June to give Joan a part--anyhow when I read that I saw red myself, remembering all the times I've been desperate, when I used a little girl to intercede for me with a powerful woman. And how I'd been used by men just like Joan Blondell was by not only Dick Powell but Mike Todd and what's his name too! So I was curious to see how June Allyson and Joan Blondell would be playing their scenes together. To their credit, they are pros and you would hardly even know! Joan has a hilarious ecene where she and Dolores Gray are sitting in a Broadway theater watching a musical number about bananas, and Joan (who is pregnant for the 7th time) is getting morning sickness as the chorus just keeps bringing out more and more bananas and singing about them. The expressions that cross her face are just hilarious. Finally she rushes past Dolores Gray and aghast theatergoers and wobbles running up the aisle to the ladies room of the theater, where Patty Duke is pulling the wig off Susan Hayward's head--oops, wrong movie--but not so wrong, because the famous VALLEY OF THE DOLLS scene between Neely O'Hara and Helen Lawson had its origin right here at Charlotte Greenwood's dude ranch when Dolores Gray finds out that she's losing her busband to--Ann Miller--and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is born.
 total bust November 15, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie in 1939 was witty and funny with the novelty of an all female cast. In typical 1950s style, they had to add color, men in the cast and characters that didn't quite fit. It didn't have to mimic the original movie but it's long, the musical numbers are not enjoyable. It seemed suited to the tastes of the day but it had nothing to do with Claire Boothe Luce's play or movie. Check out
The Women instead.
A Story of Love, Revenge and the Right Nail Polish. The Fabulous Musical Remake of THE WOMEN! September 25, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The '50s were one long stereophonic blast of Bad Musicals We Adore, as panicky studio heads--desperate to lure audiences away from their TV sets--thought it wise to add songs when remaking such earlier hit pictures as IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, BALL OF FIRE and MIDNIGHT. The results were some of the all-time champs in the unintentionally funny sweepstakes. Perhaps the best of the worst is THE OPPOSITE SEX, the 1956 tune-up of THE WOMEN, which boasts a title tune that goes like this: "Why do men who should know better/Gape at a well-filled sweater/What's there about it/That keeps them craning their necks?/The answer is the opposite sex!" Yes, the song's lyrics also rhyme "opposite sex" with "cancelled checks."
The fun begins at Sydneys beauty salon, where Manhattanite Ann Sheridan tells us, "Pounds and reputations are both lost in the steam room, and one woman's poise is another woman's poison." When Sheridan, Dolores Gray and Joan Blondell learn that the husband of their chum, June Allyson, is cheating on her, they race to dine with Allyson at "21"-- where we glimpse such cutting-edge fashion accessories as a transparent plastic purse, in which one lady keeps her live pet Chihuahua! Gray drops large clues about Leslie Nielsen, Allyson's straying spouse, which pains Sheridan. Why? It seems Allyson's a real "woman," whereas Sheridan and cronies are just "females, the lost sex, substituting fashion for passion, and the analyst's couch for the double bed." In the unlikely event that we fail to understand what it is these women need, Gray and Blondell hotfoot it to a Broadway show, supposedly to catch an eyeful of Nielsen's mistress, chorus girl Joan Collins, but really to watch the film's calypso ode to bananas. Freud would've loved the lyrics: "We got banana steak, banana boats or banana stews, banana dresses and banana shoes!"
Well, someone on this movie was certainly bananas -- what else could possibly explain a later production number, reprising the title tune, in which Collins and other chorines straddle revolving psychiatrist's couches? While watching it, Allyson learns that Collins has been seen in public with her husband and child, so she storms into Collins's dressing room and snarls one of our favorite Bad Movie lines, "You've been seeing my daughter!"
Soon Allyson's off to Reno for a divorce -- a sequence enlivened by Gray and Ann Miller getting into a wig-pulling cat fight -- after which, Allyson resumes her career to become, like most single mothers returning to the job force, a big TV star. Your jaw will drop when this middle-aged matron, wearing a Peter Pan collar, tries her hand at a seductive vamp song, "Now! Baby, Now." Prowling around a hideous ueber-'50s set -- all magenta bass fiddles against turquoise blue skies -- Allyson sings to tux-clad chorus boys, "Though the future is the pleasantest tense/What I want's in the presentest tense!"
In the end, Allyson wins Nielsen back, a dubious victory at best, but not before Gray's Reno pickup, singing cowboy Jeff Richards, wows tout Manhattan by warbling a tune called---we're not making this up -- "Rock and Roll Tumbleweed." At song's end, the crowd goes wild -- by which time you'll be falling off your sofa with glee.
 please put on dvd. July 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
June Allyson was one of the biggest stars of the 1950s and her movies deserve to be put on dvd. This is another good movie with June Allyson.
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