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Title: The Opposite Sex (1956)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| June Allyson | ... | Kay Ashley Hilliard | |
| Joan Collins | ... | Crystal Allen | |
| Dolores Gray | ... | Sylvia Fowler | |
| Ann Sheridan | ... | Amanda Penrose | |
| Ann Miller | ... | Gloria Dahl | |
| Leslie Nielsen | ... | Steve Hilliard | |
| Jeff Richards | ... | Buck Winston | |
| Agnes Moorehead | ... | Countess de Brion | |
| Charlotte Greenwood | ... | Lucy | |
| Joan Blondell | ... | Edith Potter | |
| Sam Levene | ... | Mike Pearl | |
| Bill Goodwin | ... | Howard Fowler | |
| Alice Pearce | ... | Olga | |
| Barbara Jo Allen | ... | Dolly DeHaven | |
| Sandy Descher | ... | Debbie Hilliard | |
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Shortly after their tenth wedding anniversary, New York theater producer Steven Hilliard and his wife, former popular radio singer Kay Hilliard née Ashley, are getting a Kay-initiated Reno divorce after Kay finds out about a marital indiscretion he had with Crystal Allen, a gold digging chorus girl in one of his shows. News of the indiscretion made its way to Kay indirectly by her catty friend, Sylvia Fowler. In Kay getting the divorce, Kay's best friend, playwright Amanda Penrose believes Kay is playing right into the wants of Crystal, whose main goal is not to be happily married to Steven, but to get what such a marriage can bring to her in material wealth and comfort. Amanda does not believe Steven loves Crystal and that he still really does love Kay. And Kay does proceed with the divorce despite believing theirs was a happy and loving marriage before she learned of the indiscretion, and despite having an adolescent daughter, Debbie, to consider. But when Kay learns some ... Written by Huggo
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
29 April 1957 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
El sexo opuesto See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USAEdit
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$2,834,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
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Dolly DeHaven: You knew I would. There's a glint in her eye. What's it all about?
Kay Hilliard: Well, nothing - yet.
Dolly DeHaven: What do you mean yet?
Kay Hilliard: Oh and it probably wouldn't even be fit to print.
Dolly DeHaven: Oh, come on! You know the motto of my column: from the ridiculous to the slime.
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(uncredited)
Lyrics by Ralph Freed
Music by George Stoll
Performed by Jeff Richards
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Although all the singing was intended for June Allyson, Dolores Gray performed the title song over the main credits. See more »Goofs
At the end of the "Yellow Gold" musical number, two chorus boys leap up onto the banana trees for their final pose. Just as the curtain is closing, you can see the stage-left dancer slip from his position and slide down the tree. See more »Quotes
Kay Hilliard: Why, Dolly, you decided to stay after all.Dolly DeHaven: You knew I would. There's a glint in her eye. What's it all about?
Kay Hilliard: Well, nothing - yet.
Dolly DeHaven: What do you mean yet?
Kay Hilliard: Oh and it probably wouldn't even be fit to print.
Dolly DeHaven: Oh, come on! You know the motto of my column: from the ridiculous to the slime.
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Opening credits: Manhattan Island ... A body of land consisting of four million square males-completely surrounded by women. See more »Soundtracks
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Lyrics by Ralph Freed
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I don't know why so many people on here are trashing this film. Is it a classic movie, no. But is it so awful, no. It is a perfectly good, entertaining movie. I think Allyson, the perfect 50's movie wife, is cast well as Kay, who is a perfect wife who gets left. I thought it was a little inside 50s joke, here is the perfect wife being left. Anyway, she is good and yes she was not 20, but it is a wife role and her daughter is about 10. It is not a young woman's part, that is the whole point; the husband leaves her for a younger woman. Ann Miller, Agnes Moorehead, Ann Sheridan, Dolores Gray, Joan Collins are all great. Does Miller sing or dance, no. But maybe someone was thinking she was a good actress and funny with lines and could be in a movie and not tap dance. I am sure she was happy to be cast as an actress for once. She was always a very funny performer. So check the movie out for yourself, it is really pretty good (and nice to see Allyson in some pretty clothes after all those years of white blouses in movies).