Alton Ruff

The ultimate collection of song and dance performances from Gaynor's classic network television specials - unseen for three decades - MITZI GAYNOR: RAZZLE DAZZLE! THE SPECIAL YEARS is a new documentary that celebrates a landmark career through new interviews with Mitzi and many others that worked with her. A reflective and entertaining glimpse into the television variety show at its zenith, taking viewers on a nostalgic trip through Gaynor's TV years.

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

A Wild West cow town is starving for entertainment and it falls upon Calamity Jane, a rowdy, gun-toting tomboy, to go to Chicago to bring back a famed stage actress. She brings instead the star's maid, who settles in the town, but Jane's "Secret Love" falls for her. This television special was based on a stage adaptation of the film that was playing regional circuits at the time it aired.

La vie folle de l'excentrique Mame Dennis et de sa clique d'intellectuels bohèmes et artistiques est bouleversée lorsque Patrick, le fils de 10 ans de son frère décédé, lui est confié. Plutôt que de se plier aux conventions, Mame initie le garçon à son mode de vie libre, lui inculquant son credo préféré : « La vie est un banquet, et la plupart des pauvres fils de pute meurent de faim. »

Mel Funn (Mel Brooks), un cinéaste hollywoodien sorti d'une cure de désintoxication, tente de convaincre les responsables d'un studio de cinéma de produire le premier film muet réalisé depuis quarante ans. Pour ce faire, Funn et ses amis (Marty Feldman et Dom DeLuise) vont approcher plusieurs acteurs connus afin que ceux-ci jouent dans leur film.

Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces. Seemingly surrounded by people with domestic problems, Jeff and Mari begin to question their own relationship.

Mitzi Gaynor opens her second special with a dazzling performance of "Let Go." Additional songs include "Poor Papa," and "What'll I Do." She welcomes guest star Ross Martin (The Wild, Wild, West) for a musical-comedy spoof of Gone with the Wind. Other comedy skits include Mitzi as "The Kid" describing a school recital, and as a Hungarian Gypsy performing "Those Were the Days."