If you're into pretty girls and muscle boys than Athena is definitely for you. Louis Calhern and Evelyn Varden are the grandparents last name of Mulvain of six healthy girls the two oldest being Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds. They are health fanatics who raise their grandchildren on a strict diet. Calhern has many pupils, some of them male and they become bodybuilders and enter the Mr. Universe Contest. His current hopeful is a real former Mr. Universe and future Hercules Steve Reeves.
Into their lives come Back Bay scion Edmond Purdom and singer Vic Damone who like Powell and Reynolds but not the crazy way they're being tutored. Calhern has a diet like the late Euell Gibbons and Varden communes with nature. Both are into numerology and sometimes the numbers don't add up to anyone's happiness.
This is one goofy musical with a lot of forgettable songs by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin. The highlight is a revival of one of their hits from Meet Me In St. Louis and sung by Vic Damone as The Girl Next Door.
Edmund Purdom tries his best to pull off a Cary Grant imitation, but believe me this is one knockoff Cary Grant.
If you're a fan of any of the leads it's OK entertainment.
Into their lives come Back Bay scion Edmond Purdom and singer Vic Damone who like Powell and Reynolds but not the crazy way they're being tutored. Calhern has a diet like the late Euell Gibbons and Varden communes with nature. Both are into numerology and sometimes the numbers don't add up to anyone's happiness.
This is one goofy musical with a lot of forgettable songs by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin. The highlight is a revival of one of their hits from Meet Me In St. Louis and sung by Vic Damone as The Girl Next Door.
Edmund Purdom tries his best to pull off a Cary Grant imitation, but believe me this is one knockoff Cary Grant.
If you're a fan of any of the leads it's OK entertainment.