A tribute to the brilliance of Lesley Ann Warren in Victor Victoria.

Poooookie!

Shakespearean delivery

I recently watched her in a season one episode of Love American Style and it was the first time I realized she was trying to emulate Natalie Wood. She had the big brown eyes going for her so she did resemble Natalie a bit but her acting style (if you could call it that) was full-on Natalie. I'm glad she learned her craft and eventually evolved into her own person.

Think, worry, worry, think... mm! too soft. It just gets like a vicious cycle! And then, before you know it, you are [italic]impudent[/italic]!

She should have won the Oscar that year for her performance in Victor/Victoria. I felt she was the most deserving but it was tough competition. Glenn Close in The World According to Garp and Jessica Lange & Teri Garr in Tootsie was also very good. Funny, I didn't like Lange in Tootsie when I first saw the film back in 1982 but I watched it again recently for the first time and thought she was great the second time round. Thought Kim Stanley was terrible in Frances.

Lesley Ann Warren is also great in Choose Me & Colour of Night - its such a bad film but she gives it class.

In retrospect, that might have been one of Oscars's greatest Best Supporting Actress Categories. A solid case could be made for every performance, (including Kim Stanley's, sorry R5).

Face it. The ONLY reason Lange won for Tootsie was because since she wasn't gonna win for best actress the Academy thought she should, at least, have SOMETHING.

Stanley or Warren should have taken it that year.

I read a story (take it for what it's worth) that Blake Edwards ran a rough cut of the film for cast members at his and Julie's home. Half way through it, Leslie ran out of the screening room in tears. He went after her and asked what was wrong. She felt that she had completely over-acted her part. Edwards reassured her that she had done it perfectly and that she would probably get an Oscar nomination.

Lange was effectively the costar of Tootsie, not supporting as Garr was. Jessica just didn't belong in this category. Teri was competitive but I'd have voted for Lesley.

Leslie Ann should have won just for pulling off those costumes, that hair, and makeup job alone, in addition to her dancing, and Chi-accent.

Tough choices for supporting actress that year.

It really was an incredible year for the Supporting Actress category, but Lange was not the most deserving of the win. Everyone knew that she won only because she was not going to win Best Actress for Frances, a performance that would have killed the competition in any other year. But Meryl Streep was absolutely untouchable that year. So I guess you could say that Streep cost Warren the Oscar.

Teri Garr was perfection.

James Garner should have received a nod that year from the Academy. Multi layered performance...

Truly a wonderful performance in a wonderful film.

Garr was bitter for years that Lange being put into SA effectively placed Garr as a distant also-ran. In any event, Warren should have won. I just watched it on TCM and while the first third is thoroughly enjoyable, the rest drags (ha!) on and on. The ending number, with Preston substituting for Andrews, is appalling. “See ya in church!”

[quote]The ending number, with Preston substituting for Andrews, is appalling.

You sound fun.

i love this movie and I cannot find it anywear on DVD or blue ray or digital.

Anyone own it?

R15- " See ya in church" is one of the best delivered lines in film history. It wraps up everything that she and Robert Preston's character have in common, and the smartest thing she said in the whole movie. I too think that she deserved an Oscar. That character could have been a nuisance but she gave it a special quality. I wish they had given her another song!

I've always wondered if the casting of two Cinderella's was ever brought up between the two.

They screwed up her character in the end by making her a bitter bitch, draining a lot of the fun she’d been up to that point.

She really was a delight in the film.

One of my favorite movies. And yes, she was fabulous in it. So was James Garner.

She has another brilliant piece of acting when she is sent away, and Squash puts her on the train, and the camera pans alongside the train car windows. We can't hear her, but see her screaming her way down the aisles.

Great scene.

She is delightful!

Cinderella, I mean, Lesley was robbed of the Oscar. She was brilliant. Funniest goddamn performance ever. I am a huge fan of Jessica Lange. I want her to win each time she's nominated for anything. However, Victor/Victoria was Lesley's year. Damn.

Yes, and all in one shot, R23.

The Great Lesley Ann Warren

She's now been reduced to a recurring role as Martin Mull's girlfriend on "The Cool Kids."

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Cartoonish performance. Lackluster musical numbers. Lousy ending.

I absolutely love this movie. I watch it whenever I happen to catch it on TV. When it first came out on DVD a friend and I used to smoke a ton of pot and watch it and laugh ourselves sick. Sadly, he has passed away but every time I see V/V it is a pleasant memory of the fun we had watching it over and over.

It's a perfect film. R30 is clueless and has no taste, or knowledge of film.

[R30] is right about the musical numbers; in fact they're awful with the exception of Le Jazz Hot.

She took me to a whole new level of depravity!

I love the way she throws increasingly irritated sidelong glances at King during Julie's first performance.

I love the quizzical expression on her face when she says "What's with the soap?"

I love the way she sings the line "London, Paris, Rome, New York", gritting her teeth and scowling on the word "Paris."

The single shot scene with Alex Karras at the train station is classic Blake Edwards. The man knew how to set up a gag and make it pay off.

Underrated.

"Just because you can't get it ..... Up to now Pookie, everything's been grand, just grand!"

When she is aroused by 𝑷𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆, this is what she means.

always thought this movie was too broad and twee

I really like this movie, but the latter third does drag a bit. Cutting it by 10-15 minutes would have done wonders for the energy in the last section.

Yes, after Lesley delivers her " Lock the doahr " line I'm done.

Lesley Ann Warren was actually the best part of the film for me. I love her in most every film that she appeared in (even Clue and Color of Night). Neither Garner nor Andrews really excited me here (Andrews was awkward except during her musical numbers - that woman has the voice of an angel) although Preston was perfectly cast.

I love the movie. I thought they ALL OWNED it: Robert Preston, Julie Andrews, Lesley Anne Warren, James Garner, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies, and especially Matyelok Gibbs as Andre Cassell's receptionist.

[quote]"See ya in church" is one of the best delivered lines in film history.

Not to be morbid, but...when the time comes a long, LONG time from now - when they’re rolling the in memoriam montage during the Oscar telecast the year Lesley has shuffled off this mortal coil - I hope they use that line to send her off.

I don’t recall the line “see ya in church” in that film. I wonder I might have seen a television edit that removed it.

Warren was delicicious in that part, though. I remember her gestures of discomfort when Garner’s character is drawn to Andrews during the first performance of Jazz Hot.

R47 she said the line as she is walking away from her first meeting with Robert Preston, on the stairs.

Lesley is one of those people that I hope will live long enough to get an honorary oscar. Ann-Marget too.

VictorVictoria is corny and not funny.