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My Sister Eileen
(1955)
Genre(s):
Adapted from a Play, Adapted from a Story, Brothers & Sisters, Musical Comedy, New York, New York
Cast:
Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Jack Lemmon, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Dick York, Lucy Marlow, Tommy (Thomas) Rall, Barbara Brown, Horace McMahon; DIRECTED BY: Richard Quine; WRITTEN BY: Blake Edwards, Richard Quine; MUSIC BY: Jule Styne. PRODUCER: Fred Kohlmar.
Review:
Ruth and Eileen are two small-town Ohio sisters who move to Manhattan seeking excitement. They live in a basement apartment in Greenwich Village with an assortment of oddball tenants as they pursue success and romance. Everyone is daffy and charming, as is the film. Fun, but unmemorable songs, however the terrific choreography is by Fosse, who also appears as one sister's suitor. Remake of a 1942 film which was based on a Broadway play, which was based on a series of autobiographical stories published in the New Yorker. The play was later turned into a Broadway musical known as "Wonderful Town," which has nothing to do with this version of the original stories.
NSS:
55-246
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