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starring: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznardirected by: Richard Quine
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302725520
Format: Black & White, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302725526
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 24, 1994
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 27520
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1955
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Amazon.com:
Two innocent sisters from Ohio hit Greenwich Village and must cope with wall-shaking subway construction, the neighborhood kooks, and a whopping $65 a month for an apartment. My Sister Eileen is one of those 'Look out, world, we're conquering Manhattan!' movies, with Betty Garrett as a plain, would-be writer and Janet Leigh as her knockout sister, an aspiring actress who draws men like milk draws kittens. The 1955 movie's well-scrubbed Greenwich Village is a delightful fantasy playground. The city was never like this, but it probably should have been. In one of his early roles, Jack Lemmon (crooning one of the Jule Styne-Leo Robin songs quite charmingly) plays a magazine publisher, one of the many Young Men with Ideas he would play in the subsequent decade. Even more interesting is the presence of future director Bob Fosse, as a soda jerk who romances Leigh. Fosse also choreographed the film's musical numbers, and his dances include a delightful quartet at a bandstand and a sensational showdown with Tommy Rall. Fosse and Rall try to outdo each other in a male rivalry dance that will remind Fosse fans of his obsession with hats. The breezy direction is by Richard Quine, who cowrote the script with another future director, Blake Edwards. The original source material, stories by Ruth McKenney, formed the basis for a play and a nonmusical 1942 Rosalind Russell movie, also called My Sister Eileen (in which Quine played the Fosse role); there was a Broadway musical adaptation of the stories, Wonderful Town, which is not related to this film. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fun to Watch
This is a fun movie that wears well and is still enjoyable over the years.
Rating: - Great Fun
A great Golden Oldie about New York.
Jack Lemon is outstanding as is Janet Leigh.
A DVD for those who like Classic Musicals.
Great for Collection Buffs.
Rating: - Where is Wreck's song?
I just watched this movie again and it was just as good as before! I had seen the original, non-musical, version starring Rosalind Russell so I watched the movie having an idea as how it would turn out. It was very close to the original with some slight changes...Which really weren't bad at all (They made Frank Lippencott a much more likeable character.) I must say, I really can't decide which I like better! The songs are cute and the dancing, well the dancing is great! We have Tommy Rall and Bob ... Read More
Rating: - it takes me back
I saw this movie when I was a teenager and going to the movies was a big thing for me then-----what I remember best about it was the terrific dancing----and, of course, who could ever get tired of looking at Janet Leigh---seeing it again enables one to look at it more closely and realize how really enjoyable it is.
Rating:  - Ruth, Eileen and their 'wonderful town'...
MY SISTER EILEEN was Columbia's answer when they could not secure the film rights to WONDERFUL TOWN, the hugely-successful Broadway musical version of Ruth McKenney's "Eileen Stories". Columbia had previously filmed MY SISTER EILEEN to acclaim in 1942 with Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Janet Blair as Eileen. Roz later wowed Broadway when she made her musical Ruth debut in WONDERFUL TOWN in 1953 (playing the role again for a TV version of the tuner in 1957). This musical version of MY SISTER EILEEN ... Read More
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