Lively stars, good music and Bob Fosse-grade dancing favor Columbia’s forgotten-yet-rediscovered original musical remake, which turns the adventures of two sisters in Manhattan into an all-romantic gambol. Janet Leigh and Jack Lemmon are young and fresh, but MGM alumnus Betty Garrett steals the show.
My Sister Eileen
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date June 19, 2018 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Dick York, Lucy Marlow, Tommy Rall, Richard Deacon, Kathryn Grant, Queenie Smith.
Cinematography: Charles Lawton Jr.
Film Editor: Charles Nelson
Choreographer: Robert Fosse
Songs: Jule Styne, Leo Robin
Original Music: George Duning
Written by Blake Edwards, Richard Quine from the play by Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov, from stories by Ruth McKenney
Produced by Fred Kohlmar
Directed by Richard Quine
The making of a fun movie musical was rarely as easy as jumping up and shouting,...
My Sister Eileen
Blu-ray
Twilight Time
1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date June 19, 2018 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95
Starring: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Dick York, Lucy Marlow, Tommy Rall, Richard Deacon, Kathryn Grant, Queenie Smith.
Cinematography: Charles Lawton Jr.
Film Editor: Charles Nelson
Choreographer: Robert Fosse
Songs: Jule Styne, Leo Robin
Original Music: George Duning
Written by Blake Edwards, Richard Quine from the play by Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov, from stories by Ruth McKenney
Produced by Fred Kohlmar
Directed by Richard Quine
The making of a fun movie musical was rarely as easy as jumping up and shouting,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, will be held today, July 24 at 230 Pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
- 7/24/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, was held earlier this week in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the reading below...
- 7/22/2014
- by Kevin Thomas Garcia
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, will be held Thursday, July 24 at 230 Pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
- 7/17/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, will be held Thursday, July 24 at 230 Pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
- 7/7/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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