nadinetony
Please,please,please if anyone knows how or where to purchase this movie I would greatly appreciate it if you will pass that information along so I can purchase it.It can be either DVD or VHS it doesn't matter to me because I absolutely love this movie as well as the book but I haven't seen the movie since I was a young girl and yet I still have not forgotten about this movie.I tell my children about it every time we happen to see Ann Margaret on television and I would like for them to see the movie that made me fall in love with Ann Margaret as a actress and rate her as one of the best actresses ever.Even to this day I rate her the same all due to 79 Park Avenue even tho I love everything she plays in.
triad-2
79 Park Avenue is a skillful if romanticized version of a Prostitute with a Heart of Gold. Leslie Ann Warren was great casting as was the rest of the other actors, in particular a young 18 year old actress Maria Grimm who plays the role of the one who initiates Marja into stripping. My father was an extra in the audience when they taped that sequence and though Leslie Anne had years of Broadway training as a hoofer, it was Miss Grimm's intense, rhythmically mesmerizing yet innocent 'Strip' that took his, and all our breaths away. It's a good thing we never met her as we might have fought over her. She is HOT and SWEET. Miss Grimm, more than anyone in the series, captured the essence of what a 'Woman-Child' should be, someone who could fit in your heart's pocket but send you to the Moon with her sweet Sass. I'd like to see the entire series, not the cut up version currently occasionally seen on T.V. as the Series is timeless, and the story compelling, and the acting wonderful.
dmf1567
I watched 79 Park Avenue years and years ago and absolutely loved it! Lesley Ann Warren is so talented and I think she was so believable in this role as a high class prostitute/madam. If I remember correctly, Lesley won an award for her role in this mini series, didn't she? Does anybody out there have any idea on how to get a copy of this movie, either in VHS or DVD? I sure wish they would show this movie again or at least make it available to purchase. It's unbelievable that there are so many reruns of every other TV sitcom and movie (sometimes showing the same movie over and over again in the same week) that it makes one wonder why they don't bring back some of those fantastic mini series on one of the cable channels.
roghache
It's been three decades since I saw this mini series, but recall how much I loved it at the time. The story is set back in the 1930's Depression Era and revolves around a poor New York tenement girl named Marja, accused of murdering her drunken step father who had in fact raped her. Through circumstance, she is forced into teenage prostitution and eventually becomes a famous, high priced Park Avenue madam, now know as Marianne. She is also a mob mistress, involved with a gangster named Ross, a Las Vegas high roller.Lesley Ann Warren is absolutely wonderful, both as the lovely young, abused Marja and later the gorgeous, elegant, sophisticated high class madam, Marianne. I note that she, quite deservedly, won a Golden Globe Award for her role. However, my favorite character and the one that has remained with me through these many years is Mike, the idealistic man of integrity and the cop who loves her. I fell a little in love with him myself back then! Mike is compellingly portrayed here by actor David Dukes. I don't recall much about Ross's role, I was so besotted with Mike, though seem to remember him as a fairly sympathetic character.It's been a long time, and I never read Harold Robbins' book, so have forgotten most of the details but I highly recommend this mini series about enduring love in the New York underworld of vice and prostitution. Personally, I would dearly love to see it again myself.
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