My Sister Eileen Broadway in 1940 - My Sister Eileen . My Sister Eileen is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne and Janet Blair.The screenplay by Joseph A. Another film I first saw on B&W TV during a sweltering summer at my grandmother’s in Spanish Harlem, My Sister Eileen left so little impression on me in 1972 I had virtually no memory of it. Unaware it was Chick, who made the call in order to ensure being alone with Eileen, she rushes off. The screenplay by Quine and Blake Edwards is based on the 1940 play by Joseph A. Writers: Blake Edwards; Richard Quine. My Sister Eileen (Original, Play, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Dec 26, 1940 and played through Jan 16, 1943. Welcome to arts•meme, the fine-arts blog founded in 2008 by arts journalist Debra Levine. My Sister Eileen ★★★ 1955Ruth and Eileen are two small-town Ohio sisters who move to Manhattan seeking excitement. In fact Miss Garrett is okay in shining letters . Chick comes to the apartment, and is thrown out by Ted when Eileen needs help fending off the reporter's advances. My review: If it wasn’t for my Musical Monday feature, I would not have ever watched “My Sister Eileen” (1955) a second time. Three Stooges brief appearance at the end of the movie "My Sister Eileen". It also has Bob Fosse in his first position as the film’s primary choreographer. During that period he married his second wife, Joan McCracken. Genres: Musical, Comedy, Romance. IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. My Sister Eileen (Original, Play, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Dec 26, 1940 and played through Jan 16, 1943. Producer: Fred … As he rushes off for vacation, he counsels her to write about things she knows rather than the artificial stories she had sent him. My Sister Eileen. What matters here is that the Verdon Fosse Legacy states that Fosse was not on the film. First up was KISS ME KATE (MGM, 1953), the Hollywood version of the Broadway show, an uneven and lumbering film despite its marvelous Cole Porter score (including the soaring “Wunderbar“). No one has shown evidence to the contrary and I have tons of evidence that Fosse was not involved. It looks like Robert Alton’s work, as it should, as he choreographed it. Comparing this version to the 1942 original, he said it "seems a testament to '50s feminist backlash. Visual Arts. . . Lemmon is charming and even sings a song, but dancers Bob Fosse and Tommy Rail steal the show with their amazing choreography. Some sources say that Fosse worked uncredited on CHRISTMAS, and point to “The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing,” which looks like his work. Based on a novel, the original “My Sister Eileen” premiered in 1942 starring Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Janet Blair as Eileen. As a result, this was Garrett's first screen appearance since On the Town six years earlier. His adept cast has full dancing cred, as it includes Garrett (who studied and danced with Martha Graham), Janet Leigh (who had a movie musical follow-up in Bye Bye Birdie), and the great film dancer Tommy Rall. A little over a year after the film's release, Garrett and Parks replaced Judy Holliday and Sydney Chaplin, respectively, on Broadway for a month in the smash hit Comden-Green-Styne musical Bells Are Ringing. They live in a basement apartment in Greenwich Village with an assortment of oddball tenants as they pursue success and romance. Ruth is, by her own account, a rather buxom young girl, to her sister's delicate beauty. It stars Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Jack Lemmon. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in The New Yorker. Directed by: Richard Quine. Starring: Janet Leigh, Bob Fosse, Betty Garrett, Jack Lemmon. The play originally was filmed in 1942. Sparse but colorful location footage adds to “Eileen”‘s period charm. So well done by Fosse, seen below with the incandescent Betty Garrett, whose son Andy Parks attended the screening. As far as musical remakes of dramas and comedies go, this one is pretty bad. As far as musical remakes of dramas and comedies go, this one is pretty bad. Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh, Bob Fosse and Tommy Rall perform "Give Me a Band and My Baby" (choreographed by Fosse) in the 1955 film, MY SISTER EILEEN The flick, a Columbia Pictures adaptation of the source material of Broadway’s “Wonderful Town,” with new (and markedly forgettable) songs by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, followed the 1942 Rosalind Russell version also made at Columbia. Eileen invites Chick and Frank to dinner, but when her spaghetti sauce is ruined by a plumber, Chick suggests they go to El Morocco, where he tells Eileen he will introduce Ruth to his editor, and Ruth sees Bob with a glamorous woman. The Brazilian Consul intervenes on their behalf, and the girls return home to pack their belongings. Alton also choreographed “Choreography,” “Mandy,” “Love, You Didn’t Do Right by Me” and more. What's more, she can dance and sing. [She] has the proper skepticism and the right desperation for the role. Thus, in short order My Sister Eileen would seem as irrelevant as Moon Over Miami. The original Broadway production of My Sister Eileen opened on Dec 26, 1940. Meanwhile, after finding herself the target of unwanted advances from a theatre producer, Eileen goes to the local Walgreens for lunch. My Sister Eileen is a 1955 American CinemaScope comedy musical film directed by Richard Quine. Dance history happened when Fosse, then a contract dancer working for choreographer Hermes Pan, got the go-ahead to fashion his own duet with Carol Haney for “From This Moment On.” A choreographer was born. 1953 : 5 (0) Kiss Me Kate Choreographer, Actor . My Sister Eileen (22-Sep-1955) Director: Richard Quine. my sister eileen delivers very well in terms of quirky dance numbers, with absurdly complex choreography, of easily forgettable, but happiness-inducing songs, and of atmosphere, by using the new york of dreamers who are trying to "make it" as a backdrop. My Sister Eileen is gay and bouncing. My Sister Eileen is a 1955 American CinemaScope comedy musical film directed by Richard Quine. subscribe | contact us | advertise | terms of use | privacy | design by i*net systems© 2021 arts•meme — All Rights Reserved. Even the musical numbers had to be positioned at different places in the storyline.[3]. Another film I first saw on B&W TV during a sweltering summer at my grandmother’s in Spanish Harlem, My Sister Eileen left so little impression on me in 1972 I had virtually no memory of it. When newspaper reporter Chick Clark overhears Frank telling Eileen about an audition, he claims to know the show's producer and assures her he can get her an interview with him. Plucky, starry-eyed sisters Ruth (Garrett) and Eileen (Leigh) leave Ohio and move to New York to seek their fortunes. Fields and Jerome Chodorov adapted their 1940 play for Wonderful Town, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein. On The Town). Based on a novel, the original “My Sister Eileen” premiered in 1942 starring Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Janet Blair as Eileen. Frank arrives with a box of chocolates for Eileen, Ted, and Helen reconcile, and the sisters decide to remain in New York. Jan 22, 2012. Subscribe. From a play: My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Her way with a line is homicidal. Ruth is pursued by the Brazilian naval cadets, who have misunderstood her intent in meeting their ship. My Sister Eileen ran for 866 performances and in 1942 it was filmed by Columbia, with Rosalind Russell gaining an Oscar nomination for her expertly timed portrayal of Ruth. Sign up here! After submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher. The Twilight Time Blu-ray of My Sister Eileen is a stunningly good encoding of a movie that was rediscovered in the 1990s when it came out on letterboxed laserdisc — previously it had been an unwatchable grainy pan-scan mess, chopped up with TV commercials. . . Story: Ruth, an aspiring writer who can't attract any man's attention, and Eileen, a beautiful dancer who can't keep them away, move from Ohio to New York to fulfill their dreams. Fields and Jerome Chodorov is based on their 1940 play of the same title, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in The New Yorker. Bob Fosse, dancer, at UCLA Film & Television Archive, Mere mortals to evoke Verdon & Fosse, giants of…, Bob Fosse ‘wunderbar’ in MY SISTER EILEEN at retrospective, Go-To Essays: ‘America’s Dance Treasures’, academy of motion picture arts & sciences, Adieu ~ till we meet again, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, To the gardens! Every thing to the contrary must be proven. Aspiring writer Ruth Sherwood (Betty Garrett) moves to New York with her man-magnet sister, Eileen (Janet Leigh). 1955 : 8 (0) Give a Girl a Break Actor . Directed by Richard Quine. The horrible digs, sleazy start-up jobs, and true grit of young girls in New York rings super true. When the two, in a scene of mad seduction, sing "It's Bigger Than You and Me," the breadth of the spoof is established and the high point of the comedy is reached. And we hate to think what would have happened to it if some one had thought to … A fun technicolor musical and childhood favourite. "[6], In his review of the DVD release of the film, Steve Daly of Entertainment Weekly graded it B. Mortified, Eileen rushes out. As does the girl’s best friend, Frank Lippencott, played by Mr. Fosse, not as the “soda jerk” he truly is, but as a ‘drugstore manager.’ Fosse shines in this film acting, singing, dancing … and in his easy-peasy choreography, particularly the gazebo dance (ahem, wherefore the gazebo in New York City?). When they proved to be too costly, he decided to hire Jule Styne and Leo Robin to write a different score. In 1953, Joseph A. It is a farce which depends entirely upon two doors. IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. A classic musical based on "My Sister Eileen" by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. Helen sees Ted comforting Eileen, and mistakenly assumes the worst. Not confirming or denying, just sayin’. Intrigued, Bob asks her for a date, but Ruth declines, and later tells Eileen she finds him dull and unattractive. Ted asks the girls if he can stay with them while Helen's mother visits and Eileen agrees despite Ruth's uncertainty. The choreographer of that film was Robert Alton. Aldo Ray turned down his part of Ted as being too small and it was given to Dick York, a Columbia contract star. (This musical film is totally different from the 1953 Broadway musical Wonderful Town, though both are based on the original Ruth McKenney source material.). by Carrie Dunn - Sep 16, 2015. That Fosse was in tip-top form in this movie was confirmed by mega dancer Barrie Chase, who after attending the screening stated in no uncertain terms concerning Fosse’s performance, “Bobby never danced better. Its success on Broadway prompted Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, which had released the 1942 screen adaptation of the play, to seek the film rights to the musical. Film’s most renowned number in “Eileen” is the testosterone-charged “Alley Dance,” in which Fosse challenges, and to my eye, outdances the estimable Rall, making the number an illustration of the future dancing with the past. Music. But it is Jack Lemmon . The earlier DVD was okay but a tad soft, which didn’t help readability for a film that’s 80% wide shots. meme‘s Debra Levine, despite delivering a talk, “Bob Fosse, Dancer,” prior to the two movie musicals (both named for ladies!) Small and it was filmed, he decided to hire Jule Styne and Mr. Robin dished... 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