My Sister Eileen (1955)

Curiosidades

My Sister Eileen is a 1955 American musical comedy film directed by Richard Quine and starring Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, and Betty Garrett.

Production

In 1953, Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov adapted their 1940 play for Wonderful Town, with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein. 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. When they proved to be too costly, he decided to hire Jule Styne and Leo Robin to write a different score.

Screenwriter/director Richard Quine, who had portrayed Frank Lippincott in the 1940 stage play and the 1942 screen adaptation, originally cast Judy Holliday in the role of Ruth Sherwood. When the actress got into a contract dispute with the studio, she was replaced by Betty Garrett, who had been essentially, but not officially, blacklisted due to her marriage to Larry Parks, a one-time member of the Communist Party, who had been forced to testify…

Aldo Ray turned down his part of Ted Loomis as being too small and it was given to Dick York, a Columbia contract star.

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