Bosom Buddies (STEREO) - Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur - Mame
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- For fun, here is the stereo version of "Bosom Buddies" from the 1974 film adaptation of MAME, sung by stars Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur, synced to the final film footage.
Opening in 1966 on Broadway, MAME is based on the 1955 novel AUNTIE MAME by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play, of the same name, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
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Ugh, Bea wouldve made a FABULOUS Disney villain 😍
YES!
Pat Carroll was perfect as Ursula but Bea would’ve killed it too
Bea was actually offered Ursula, well, her agent was given the option and turned it down for Bea apparently. Next in-line was Elaine Stritch, she didn't work out, then Pat Carroll came in and killed it
Sometimes I feel self-conscious about my very low voice. Then I watch this, and I remember how fabulous it is to be a girl with a husky voice.
I always wished for a husky voice, especially as a child - like the great Kathleen Turner 💕
Just don't smoke two packs a day.
@@bobbylcraig Yes Bea and Lucy were heavy smokers.
Bea and Lucille's baritone voice is attributable to cigarettes. Not sure why but it has a different sound than a deep voice that occurs naturally. That being said, I have one too, and I learned to appreciate it as I got older.
@josettedaejung6309: Beatrice Arthur naturally had a low voice but Lucille Ball smoked worse than a polluted chimney-about 3 or 4 packs/day-which was the cause of her low voice. She did so much damage to it that she couldn’t be dubbed. In addition the excessive smoking weakened the cells in her face creating the sagged line look that required a soft filter throughout the film. The smoking also affected her breathing and therefore her interpretation of the songs. A terrible choice to play the role even if she paid $2 million of the $14 million film cost (about 14.3%). Too bad 20th Century Fox didn’t let her buy the title role in CLEOPATRA as they could have saved millions 😂
Bea Arthur has so much presence. She just jumps out on the screen as a star.
i'm in love with bea's singing
I knew she played Vera Charles but I had to kind of take a second look / listen to be sure it was really her. SUCH a different look from Dorothy Z.
Me too
Actually Bea would have been a better Mame.
Beas wit was superb
I adore Bea’s voice
If "frenemies" were a movie scene. Love it!!!
Bea’s voice is so goood
Aĺl I ever want to see is this or something similar. Not today's crap
Bea is so beautiful....
I think that they were fabulous.
Despite what has been said negative about the movie and Lucille Ball (Bea hated it btw) - I still think it was one of the best feature length movie musicals I've ever seen and I thought Lucille and Bea were wonderful in this film. I absolutely fell in love with it the first time I saw it - no apologies. It is a fine piece of work in my estimation.
I think Mame, like West Side Story, works despite having a flawed lead. I don't think Richard Beymer is very good in WSS at all, and Natalie Wood is just passable. However, WSS is still a classic due to the music, the dancing, and Rita Moreno. I don't think the movie version of Mame is a classic, but I enjoy watching it. Randy Man, NEVER apologize for liking anything! : - )
@@jmd26 That's true, and part of what killed musicals for me, is the constant casting of actors who could not really sing or dance, who did not really belong in a musical. And, not trusting the choreography, so putting dance numbers in vernacular settings with vernacular props.
Maybe you haven't seen many good movie musicals.
I love Bea but the best musical is Hello Dolly with Barbra!
The movie bombed at the box office big time
Two of the greatest comediennes (before everyone became simply “comedians”) of them all, their timing was always impeccable, and they were unafraid of pushing the envelope to hitherto unimaginable lengths. Without those two, all that followed may never have been.
This would have to be the best bitch session in movies, probably in history! Terrifically performed by two of the best female entertainers of this age. Love it and never tire of them performing and camping it up. Rest in peace ladies you will be remembered long after many others are gone.
Garry--If you want a great cat fight watch "The Mirror Crack'd" with Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, Elizabeth Taylor and KIm Novak. The scene where Kim "crashes" Taylor's party has got some of the best insults on film! "Love your outfit darling. What are you supposed to be--a birthday cake? Too bad everyone's already had a piece." czcams.com/video/rpHHjQBR4S0/video.html
Can't agree more
How amazing to see my two idols perform together. My heart can't take it. I miss dearly these two so much!!
Get yourself to the hospital but only to have your sight, hearing and common sense checked. This film sucked!
Miss old musicals...
So f'n purrrfect. Love both u gals!
We need this era of film to come back.
I expected to hate Lucy, but like her, and them, in this song. Bea Arthur shows her usual brilliance of course.
Dorothy Zbornak and Lucy Ricardo...
Hey Lucy why are you in your mame costume? It’s Been almost 46 years since this movie was made *Lucy replies* because you don’t care what I wear and I don’t care about your opinion *slaps lucy* SHADY PINES
Cary grant movies
What about it?
wonderful wonderful wonderful! Oh how I wish we could have seen more of Bea Arthur.
Just discovered this gem. Of all versions of Auntie Mame, this is my favorite 🏆! 💓
This is the best example of underplaying for effect I’ve ever seen. Both of them in top form. This is a masterclass. ❤️❤️❤️
Omg Bea is gorgeous !
I LOVE THIS MOVIE. This version is one of my all time favs.
@@johnpickford4222 Oh shut up. If she likes it, she likes it.
Really?
Dear Lord, how I miss these ladies! Fantastic!
If this skit wasn't made for gay men everywhere then I clearly don't know what it was made for.
i dedicated that song to my best gay bosom buddy.
Two drag queens, Jinkx Monsoon and Alaska Thunderfuck made a terrific version of it. The video is here on CZcams
40 year old widows 😊
Sweetheart. This was made for us to replicate. With our gay bffs.
Hear hear!
It still AMAZES me how much of a PRESENCE Lucy was! Bea Arthur, Carol Burnett, and ALL the women after owe everything to Lucy!!!
Ugh how good this would have been with Angela Lansbury!
frumaatholoid she would have energized the movie, but this movie also need more help than just Lansbury. It had a 70s feel about it, just something off about it
You'll have to settle with this. czcams.com/video/VYBo5eulYgA/video.html
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frumaatholoid I would defend the honor of the late Lucille Ball, but it’s like the song says “But who else but a bosom buddy will tell you the whole stinking truth.“
Bea was the only good thing about this movie. Angela would have completely saved this movie. Lucille just couldn’t sing and especially not at this point.
Best thing about the movie.
Idc what no one say, I think Bea would've made a damn good album!
The fact that Lucy and Bea are in the same thing makes me happier. Lucy was an icon.
Bea was my favorite and Angela should have been In the movie!!
I loved this movie. As a child, I saw it on the big screen at the beautiful Radio City Music Hall.
Oddly enough, Bea Arthur had an episode of the Golden Girls where Betty White and Rue McClanahan were busy watching "I Love Lucy".
Who did Lucy play again?
GLORIOUS
The shade of it aaaallllll thats a friendship lol
i did not like the movie but i love this song .it reminds me of me and my best friend, we fight ,argue and insult (only in fun), but when we need each other we are there.
tara lang 1958 version with Rosland Russell is golden that's my all time favorite
mine too rosalind russell made that movie great
It reminds me of the friendship between Dorothy and Trudy McMahon on GG.
Wow, nice editing in that section. Bravo.
If you enjoy this, please treat yourself to Bea and Angela Lansbury performing this live at the Tony Awards. Seriously. It makes this version look like a high school musical.
This is everything! Love it! Yasss, 2 Legends at their BEST!!! Bea looks beautiful.
I love Bea Arthur and want a amazing actress and beautiful person on the inside and out. And I love Lucille Ball what an amazing actress and TV's greatest actress. She started the family TV show.. But if you really look closely at Lucille Ball and you will see what a stunning beautiful woman Lucille Ball was.... Lucille Ball was quite older in this movie. But what a beautiful woman she was you can just look at the TV shows and the movies and her pictures and see what a beautiful woman she was really was.. I hope when I die I get to meet Lucille ball. there's quite a few people that I would like to get to meet one day that have passed over. But she has to be top of my list...
NYC - Radio City Music Hall - Christmas 74 Show - Mother and I - what a grand outing it was.
My father took me to the premiere at radio city music hall I was 9. Turned out to be the last big premiere they ever had.
I think I was there too!
I can't stop thinking about how Bea's costume looks miserably uncomfortable and hot. Imagine wearing all that under those hot movie lights.
Bea's hat! I can't!
Lucy ! Bea ! I have EVERYTHING Lucy ! Dools, books, plates, magazines ,snow globes, Bottles of Vitameatavegimin... Bea? Every season of Golden Girls, magazines and dolls...how I miss you !
thanks for including the deleted part
I just love Bea outfit.
Best frenemies song ever.
It's such a shame that Lucy cast herself in this film instead of Angela Lansbury. It could have been an Oscar winner with Angela reprising her Tony-winning role.
my 2 fav actresses ❤️❤️
I just viewed this after watching the official Warner Archive channel upload of the same scene, and it is truly astounding how much more magnificent the stereo rendition is. You did a great job blending the elements here (including the little notations for the extended and deleted sections). I would LOVE to see the entire film properly issued in true stereo.
why was that specific verse deleted?
Once you learn that they slightly unfocused the shots of Lucille to help hide her age, you will never unsee it...
Another trick was to place a light weight gauze like material over the lens of the camera.
It's called diffusion. A skilled and experienced director could get away with it. A talented director is able to play to the leading lady's vanity, using tricks with lighting and focus to take some years off of how she looks. That usually includes having some level of diffusion in all shots of a scene. When you ONLY have Lucy's close up shots and one person shots out of focus, and all the rest in focus, it's very obvious, and takes you out of the scene. It's exposes the leading lady's vanity, rather than hiding it. Lucy also had a system of taping behind her ears to make her face appear more taught, as she was afraid to go under the knife for plastic surgery. She actually looks pretty good here, all things considered. What's that quote from Sunset Boulevard? "There's nothing tragic about being 50, unless you're trying to be 25"
Evidently she had her own camera operator who was expert at shooting her and he accompanied her on every production she was involved in.
Same with Doris Day
Tears in my eyes
Bea Arthur reminds me that I can still be gorgeous with a deep, husky voice. She was incredible ❤
hugh jackman & ryan reynolds should do a cover of this song
Lucy and Bea are brilliant. I love it that you've included a still where there's a section of music cut from the movie. I wonder if this footage exists. I love LUCY/MAME. Thank you! i
Omg this filled my heart ❤
In a video interview with the Archive of American Television, Bea Arthur was asked if she had any career regrets - and she said her one regret was appearing in this movie. She said Lucille Ball was horribly miscast and being in this movie was an "embarrassment" for her.
I believe she only agreed to do it because her husband Gene Saks was directing.
Love those two Icons ❤
Fantastic! I love her voices.
CZcams really recommended this 50 years later 🤦🏾♀️
Rip Lucy and Bea bosom buddies in heaven
Lucille's voice got so froggy from the chain smoking cigarettes. 😪
Did she smoke them or eat them
Brock Wayne NJ
I don't really remember her voice being any less froggy in the 50s.
By 1960 her voice was shot.
Back then
People liked voices like that
Awesome!
Oh GOD Thank you for this!!
Thank you for sharing!
They sure don’t make ‘em like this anymore !!!!!
Two classics...
I *adore* this.
My favourite queens LoL especially Bea
Thank you🌹🌹
Wonderful campery!!
Rarely seen...in stereo.....LAUGH!!!!
One of my favorites no matter who plays mame. Is there a revival show yet?
The 2 funniest women/people that ever lived.
Incomparable … both of them.🍸🏳️🌈
It’s Great
when actresses could really sing and act and TV was good R.I.P Bea Arthur and Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball couldn't sing, check out Angela Lansbury to hear a real singer
Due to years of chain smoking Lucy’s voice was shot.
@@Anonymous-xm8ir You’re wrong. Lucille Ball could sing...she was on key, on time but her voice was very damaged from smoking and using it incorrectly during I Love Lucy and Wildcat. Just, don’t say that she “couldn’t sing”. That is not true.
This is the song of frenemies.
Still Funny!!
omg I know Bea Arthur just from Golden Girls :-)
Lucilles hat though!♥
Lucy really COULD sing :) Love it
I LOVE Lucy but she really can't sing. Watch a version with Dorothy Zbornak and Jessica Fletcher. There's a reason Ricky didn't want her in the show.
Joshua Sophy Best comment I've seen in months.
Grayson Sparkman If Lucy had done this a decade and a half earlier she would have sounded much better. Shouting so the audience could hear her on the set of "I Love Lucy," coupled with raising her voice an octave so Lucy Ricardo would sound younger and more innocent and naive, followed by exhausting herself working on "Wildcat," and, of course, smoking three packs of cigarettes a day just destroyed her voice. Lucy was never a professional singer, but when she was younger she could at least sing competently.
They actually had to piece her songs together, often each phrase was from a different take because her voice was so poor.
She could sing where?
Sounds great--you did a wonderful job. I wish the whole movie could be stereo-ized. :)
I wish the whole movie could be autotuned ( by whole, of course, I mean Lucy's parts) not t mention re-edited to get rid of some of the numbers tgat go on for far too long
Gotta love a man with a stache, and audio abilities... LOL
Yes *Lawd* 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
😧 She met Lucy ! Love her
Add Debbie Reynolds and Angela Lansbury and it would be absolutely legendary
These two women would have been great in Golden Girls together 😂
Very good. I actually did 6 songs from the film onto a DVD-R, used the DVD release from the film and the Rhino soundtrack which is in true stereo, and those 6 songs actually match perfectly. How much better a musical is in stereo, even though I hate what Lucy did to some of these top Broadway songs. I wish Warner would have just used what they could do in stereo, and left the rest in mono, at least we would be able to watch the film on the new blu-ray and get SOME of the songs in stereo. It's Today syncs perfectly, but the title tune doesn't because it was shortened for the soundtrack album (sadly). That would have been a great number in stereo.
What was the reason for the verse @1:02 being cut ✂ from the film?
Reunited at last ❤
Wow this is sad compared to the Broadway version. However Bea is always a show stopper
That’s the problem. If there wasn’t something to compare it too..it would have very different reviews. I never saw the Broadway show and I know Lucille Ball was not a singer but her character would have a voice like hers...raspy and rough. She was not off-key but people just keep comparing her to Angela Lansbury.
I can’t imagine Angela looking as divine as Lucille Ball did in the movie!
@@angelgstag Lucy being cast as mame was only one of this movies many problems, the plot is really thin aswell
oh GOD! i LOVE THAT SCENE...IF WISH YOU HADN'T CUT OUT THE FIRST PART "BEFORE" THEY STARTED TO SING. WHICH WAS SETTING UP THE SCENE. THAT WAS A MISTAKE. PLS DO THIS OVER AND INCLUDE IT. AS SOOOON AS THEY WALKED IN TO THE HOTEL BAR. BEA SITTING THERE... COME ON... IT MADE THE SINGING PART HYSTERICAL. TSK TSK. YOU GOOFE3D THIS UP.
The original Edina & Patsy
I am reminded of Algernon Moncrieff's response to John Worthing's statement regarding Gwendolyn and Cicely:
John Worthing: "“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister."
Algernon Moncrieff: "Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”
Thank you Disney Ashman Demos III
Gina...you'll always be my bosum buddy. Who else would understand why we have elephants in the jello?
Well I don't know which version of the film you have been watching but the verse you say is cut is definitely on the DVD I have … I know some scenes were cut from the Edited version they showed on TV to fit the time schedule and the dance Bea and Lucile do on the stairs as a continuance of this song was cut from the TV version, but they have all been reinstated on the DVD in the original form... although it is now almost impossible to buy now as it has been deleted from the available list . and has become a collector's item .. I'm please to say that through my contacts in the theatre I have both the original Video, DVD and CD .I have to say though that I think Lucille makes a superb Mame and to my personal taste better than Angela Lansbury who while being good just didn't do it for me ...
Guess no one actually eats in this restaurant, eh...
The reference to Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein confused me. Vera and Mame are not lovers.
I could see Vanessa l Williams playing mame and queen latifah playing vera in a remake of this film
"section extend in film" damit, I knew I remembered a line that isn't there