* Second of two consecutive movies with a connection to William Shakespeare for actress-comedian Bette Midler. * The name of the dog that Lily Tomlin gave to the canine she befriended was “Duke”. * Just before the cameras rolled on each of her Rose Shelton scenes, actress-comedian Lily Tomlin would spin around in a circle several times until she got dizzy, in order to exhibit the air-headed qualities of this character. The movie won in 1989 the American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) awarded to actress-comedian Bette Midler. In one scene in Big Business, Midler’s character is asked whether she wants roses or tulips in the hotel room. Midler later played another Rose-named character, Mama Rose, in Gypsy, the television version of the classic Broadway musical, and a remake of the earlier Gypsy. Co-star Bette Midler once starred in a movie called The Rose where her character was called Mary Rose Foster and nicknamed ‘The Rose’. * The two characters played by Lily Tomlin, Rose Ratliff and Rose Shelton, are both first named “Rose”. Tomlin had last been seen as Edwina Cutwater in All of Me in 1984. * Actress Lily Tomlin’s first big film role in a theatrical release for about four years. * Principal photography on this picture commenced during August 1987. * Star Billing: Bette Midler received top first billing whilst Lily Tomlin received second billing. The first had been Ruthless People made and first released about a couple of years earlier. * Second and final of two films that director Jim Abrahams has made with actress-comedian Bette Midler. * After the two sets of mis-matched twins meet for the first time, country Sadie comments about city Sadie, “Isn’t she divine?” An obvious reference to Bette Midler’s stage and screen title,”Divine Miss M”. “Jupiter Hollow” is a commune, less than eight miles from “Jane Lew”, in the town of Weston, WV. “Jane Lew”, the town where the doctor provides direction to the closest hospital, is an actual town in West Virginia. * The name of the place in West Virginia where both sets of twins were born was “Jupiter Hollow”. * Although Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin play two sets of twins, Tomlin is actually six years older than Midler. * Jim Abrahams based one of the boardroom scenes on an experience he had had, when many employees of a large agency all tried to get him to sign with them. To recoup construction costs, Disney built a sitcom around it, The Nutt House. *The production company couldn’t get the rights to film at the actual Plaza Hotel in New York, so it had it recreated on sound stages. * The structure of the film was based loosely on “The Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare. * This movie was originally written for Barbra Streisand (Bette Midler’s role) and Goldie Hawn (Lily Tomlin’s role). * The film grossed 40 million dollars (that was considered a hit) * Both Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin were nominated for Funniest Actress In A Motion Picture. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory.īig Business, 1988 from Rémi Crosasso on Vimeo. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. Quotes, character names, and themes from these movies became shorthand references and “coded language” for LGBTQ+ people for many years, as we have to thank them for getting so many generations of queer people through some very rough times.The Plot: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. Though we couldn’t see ourselves in film for so long, LGBTQ+ people still found certain movies and characters that we organically gravitated toward and consumed those projects as if they were just as queer as we were. It wasn’t until the last few couple of decades that we started to actually see queer characters and storylines play out on the big screen as the central theme of a mainstream movie, or at least a significant enough side plot. Over the rich history of cinema, LGBTQ+ representation has been incredibly scarce (to say the least). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Walt Disney Pictures 20th Century Fox The LGBTQ+ community has embraced and loved these classic films for years!
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