A Vênus de Ouro

All the elements for an enjoyable, if unchallenging musical. These include fine costumes, pleasing music, romance, and wit. Mitzi Gaynor works well in her first true showcase, and Dennis Day works overtime with his winning charm, easing us over the slow parts. The costumes are perfect, especially Miss Gaynors' ensembles, especially designed to display her abundant charms. Not great, but representative of its genre and quite entertaining

I saw this movie back when I was a young teenage girl of about 13 years, and it has stuck in my memory for 50 years now. It was a sort of Cinderella story to me in it's purest form. I would love to own this movie to let my grandchildren watch it as I feel they would really get something from it! Movies today just don't compare in my opinion. Most are just watched and forgotten, but since I've not been able to get this one out of my head for 50 years must say something about it? The stars, both Mitz Gaynor and Dale Robertson were superb! Her songs and dances were wonderful, and the acting was of the best quality. I'm sure this movie boosted both their careers a great deal. I could watch it a thousand times and not tire of it. Would love to find it available somewhere out there. Thanks for reading my review.

Mitzi gets to strut her stuff in this almost wholly fictional biography of pioneering actress Lotta Crabtree. The actual story of Lotta's life, touring mining camps, forging what became early American theatre in the West and becoming a major philanthropist, was far more interesting than this surface collection of period inappropriate musical numbers tied tenaciously to a silly love story that never happened and makes Lotta seem foolish and naive.

Mitzi was a fantastic dancer and a pert personality and those two traits are much in evidence throughout the film so if you like her you'll like this. There is also the wonderful Una Merkel as Lotta's mother adding a bit of dash to the proceedings but she's the only member of the supporting cast that makes any impression.

A colorful movie but worthless as if you're interested in Miss Crabtree's story.

An ok film and great for Mitzi Gaynor fans. It seemed like a Calamity Jane wanna be... but Dennis Day, a pretty bland performer (albeit with a really good voice) and Mitzi are not a match for Howard Keel and Doris Day and an MGM production. It's the usual Hollywood totally fabricated biography, 90% fiction, so don't expect this to be a true story. One of the great things about Mitzi was that although she wasn't in the league of Cyd Charisse or Vera Ellen as a dancer....at least she did her own singing which made her a true all-around performer (her voice is not all that powerful, but it is pleasing). At 19, when this was filmed, her energy is boundless and when she's onstage, particularly with Dennis Day, he becomes invisible.She is cute, talented and this really was her first chance to strut her stuff.

This is a film I went to the cinema and watched on its release.... Throughout the 51 years since then this is the film that has stayed in my memory.

I found the plot quite enthralling - the action criss crossed from the Civil War to the theatre and the lives of all those involved. The drama and the joys were all there. The cast were all good in the roles and there was a wide range of Hollywood names of that era. The musical numbers were toe tapping and will run through your mind after you have watched it ... main numbers are Golden Slippers and Dixie which you sing for days afterwards (in my case 51 years afterwards).

The costumes were what you expected of a large Hollywood musical of the era - colourful and glorious.

Sadly it seems to be a film that is lying in the vaults forgotten but it would be nice if it could be re-released....if only to see a young Dale Robertson...