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6.1/10   168 votes
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Director:
Don Weis
Writers:
Max Shulman (screenplay)
Max Shulman (story)
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Release Date:
14 August 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical more
Tagline:
IT'S M-G-M's LOVE-HAPPY, YOUTHFUL MUSICAL! (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
A delightfully silly, old fashioned comedy. more

Cast

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Debbie Reynolds ... Pansy Hammer
Bobby Van ... Dobie Gillis
Barbara Ruick ... Lorna Ellingboe
Bob Fosse ... Charlie Trask
Hanley Stafford ... George Hammer
Lurene Tuttle ... Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
Hans Conried ... Prof. Amos Pomfritt

Charles Lane ... Chemistry Professor Obispo
Archer MacDonald ... Harry Doreas
Kathleen Freeman ... 'Happy Stella' Kowalski
Almira Sessions ... Aunt Naomi
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John Smith ... Student (as Robert Van Orden)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
72 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #16408)

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Trivia:
This modest (by MGM standards) black-and-white musical failed to be noted by a contemporary New York Times review. In addition, this was Debbie Reynolds' only monochrome song-and-dance picture. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" (1959) more
Soundtrack:
You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right more

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
A delightfully silly, old fashioned comedy., 7 June 1999
6/10
Author: Jason A. Clark (jclark88@usa.net) from Austin, Texas, USA

This comedy/musical is a rather silly but quite entertaining college romance. The dialogue and situations is extremely dated, having come out in the early '50s, but if you enjoy films from that period you'll probably like this one. Some of the situations made me laugh out loud which is more than I can say for many films of today. The characters from this film were later used in the television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

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