My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen
Columbia, 1955, Color, 108 minutes, ***
Released September, 1955

Spry musical adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy stars Janet Leigh and Betty Garrett as two Ohio siblings who move to New York City and take a basement apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone occupied by offbeat characters. Jack Lemmon, Dick York, Kurt Kaznar, and Bob Fosse (who also served as the film's choreographer) also star; co-scripted by Blake Edwards.

Produced by: Fred Kohlmar
Directed by: Richard Quine
Assistant Director: Sam Nelson
Screen Play by: Blake Edwards, Richard Quine
Based upon the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Adapted from the stories by Ruth McKenney
and production on the stage by Max Gordon
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Morris Stoloff
Assistant: Fred Karger
Arrangements and Adaptation: George Duning
Orchestrations: Arthur Morton
Songs: Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Leo Robin
Musical Numbers and Dances by: Robert Fosse
Art Director: Walter Holscher
Set Decorator: William Kiernan
Gowns by: Jean Louis
Make-up by: Clay Campbell
Hair Styles by: Helen Hunt
Recording Supervisor: John Livadary
Sound: Lambert Day
Director of Photography: Charles Lawton, Jr.
Photographed in CinemaScope, Color by Technicolor
Technicolor Color Consultant: Henri Jaffa
Film Editor: Charles Nelson

Cast: Janet Leigh [Eileen Sherwood], Betty Garrett [Ruth Sherwood], Jack Lemmon [Bob Baker], Bob Fosse [Frank Lippencott], Kurt Kasznar [Appopolous], Dick York ["Wreck"], Lucy Marlow [Helen], Tommy Rall [Chick Clark], Barbara Brown [Helen's Mother], Horace MacMahon [Lonigan], Henry Slate, Hal March [Drunks], Alberto Morin [Brazilian Consul], Queenie Smith [Alice], Richard Deacon [George], Ken Christy [Police Sergeant]

Musical Program: [0:00] Atmosphere (sung by Chorus behind titles); [0:05] unidentified aria (sung by unidentified soprano offscreen); [0:09] As Soon As They See Eileen (sung by Betty Garrett); [0:21] I'm Great (sung and danced by Kurt Kasznar, Dick York, Betty Garrett and Janet Leigh); [0:30] I'm Great (reprised by Betty Garrett and Janet Leigh); [0:36] Got No Room for Mr. Gloom (instrumental danced by Bob Fosse and Tommy Rall); [0:50] There's Nothin' Like Love (sung and danced by Betty Garrett and Janet Leigh; later sung by Bob Fosse, danced by Fosse and Janet Leigh); [1:06] Give Me a Band and My Baby (sung and danced by Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Janet Leigh and Tommy Rall); [1:15] It's Bigger Than You and Me (sung by Jack Lemmon); [1:20] There's Nothin' Like Love (sung by Bob Fosse, danced by Fosse and Janet Leigh); [1:36] What Happened to the Conga (sung and danced by Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh, Kurt Kasznar and Brazilian Sailors); [1:46] What Happened to the Conga (danced by Company)