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My Sister Eileen (1955)
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22 September 1955 (USA)
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That Joyous New Musical !
Plot:
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street"...
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Nice musical, but somewhat mystifying ...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Janet Leigh | ... | Eileen Sherwood | |
| Jack Lemmon | ... | Robert 'Bob' Baker | |
| Betty Garrett | ... | Ruth Sherwood | |
| Bob Fosse | ... | Frank Lippincott (as Robert Fosse) | |
| Kurt Kasznar | ... | 'Papa' Appopolous | |
| Dick York | ... | Ted 'Wreck' Loomis (as Richard York) | |
| Lucy Marlow | ... | Helen, Wreck's girlfriend | |
| Tommy Rall | ... | Chick Clark | |
| Barbara Brown | ... | Helen's mother | |
| Horace McMahon | ... | Police officer Lonigan | |
| Henry Slate | ... | Second drunk | |
| Hal March | ... | Pete, first drunk |
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The Gay Girls (USA) (working title)
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108 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.55 : 1 more
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June Haver turned down an offer to play Eileen Sherwood.
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Quotes:
Ruth Sherwood:
Just what kind of work are you out of, Wreck?
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Featured in "Broadway: The American Musical" (2004)
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I'm Great
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I recently saw this musical, and enjoyed it very much. There is only one thing that puzzles me though. First, a little history of "My Sister Eileen". It originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually was published as a book in 1938. In 1940 the book was adapted as a non-musical play. In 1942, Columbia produced a film version of the play. In 1953, Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green wrote the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical adaptation retitled "Wonderful Town". Then two years later, in 1955, Columbia released this musical version. What puzzles me is that it seems that Columbia completely ignored the hit Broadway show of just two years prior, as if it never existed. It's interesting that they would have Jule Styne and Leo Robin write a completely new score for the film, when the superb Bernstein/Comden & Green score was already there. The Styne/Robin score is very good, but in no way does it compare to "Wonderful Town".