Biography - Osmonds: Pure & Simple [VHS]

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Actor: Osmonds
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Release Date: 2000-09-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: A & E Home Video
Studio: A & E Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Biography - Osmonds: Pure & Simple [VHS]

Movie Review: Biography for the Osmonds
Summary: 5 Stars

This Biography of the Osmonds is excellent. I wish they would produce another one that is more current and up to date considering all that has happened in the years since this biography.

Movie Review: Biography-The Osmonds
Summary: 5 Stars

Have always love the Osmonds, Great Biography, Very close to the true story of the Osmonds

Movie Review: Without Compromise!
Summary: 5 Stars

I have been an avid fan of the Osmonds for decades and yet this Biography of the Osmonds provided great insight into the lives of the Osmonds on both personal and professional view points, and as a family.

Through this biography you get to watch performances of the Osmonds through the many, many years that they have been in the show business from the beginning till the time this biography covers.

Each Osmond is interviewed and you get to learn little bits of information about them and their lives, fears, dreams, etc.

For example, Jay who used to look at the camera a lot is actually in reality afraid of being in front of the camera. For him, the thought of being featured in a biography meant being once again casted in the spotlight and once again, in front of the camera and that scared him.

You get to realise just how proud the Osmonds are of each other as a family member and as a professional artist. How glad they are that they have been able to stay in the music business as a family through all these years and how for them it doesn't matter who is in the spotlight as long as it's an Osmond.

Get this DVD and journey with this wonderful family through their years of being in the show busincess and learn how their faith and love for each other kept them true to each other and to themselves - without compromise.

Movie Review: Great story
Summary: 4 Stars

Grew up with the Osmonds but there was much I learned about them from this video.

Movie Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars

Whether you're a fan or just curious, this is a fabulous DVD. Thorough, interesting and entertaining. A must see!

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Summary of Biography - Osmonds: Pure & Simple [VHS]

Profile of the singing brothers who burst upon the pop scene in the seventies on the "Andy Williams Show", and went on to sell more than 80 million records and break countless hearts. Includes interviews with Alan, Donny, George, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Olive, Wayne, and Marie Osmond.

Suffice it to say that the stories related in A&E's Osmonds: Pure and Simple are all but squeaky clean. There are no secret drug problems, no criminal activities, and no one-night-stands with groupies. In fact, there's nothing the least bit scandalous to be found in the entire 50-minute program (except perhaps, those horrendous '70s outfits). What there is, however, are tales of spirit, growth, and triumph, all of which occur while the spotlight shines on one of the most popular families in show biz.

Four decades are covered, and the story begins, of course, with the marriage of the Osmond parents, who raised nine children in Salt Lake City's Mormon community. It was on a family trip to Yellowstone that the boys discovered their distinctive harmony and decided to form a quartet. Their parents opted not to pressure the boys into using their talents but allowed the group to make its own decisions--they decided to be entertainers. The program provides a well-written history of the group's rise from Disneyland Barbershop Quartet to their seven-year run on The Andy Williams Show in the mid-1960's, and through the pop chart successes that provided a launch pad for the solo careers of both Donny and Marie.

It's probably obvious that there's a happy ending to the program, which is filled with interviews featuring every member of the joyful clan and provides a fairly broad overview of this show business force. There's also plenty of clips from The Donny and Marie Show (both the 1970s and 1990s versions), which allow us to revel in this nostalgia along with the family that created it. --Zach Lively

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