Product Description

The Sherwood sisters get off the train in Manhattan looking for fame and fortune. Eileen (Janet Leigh Academy Award® nominee 1960 Best Supporting Actress Psycho) a beautiful aspiring actress and Ruth (Betty Garrett TV s Laverne & Shirley ) a loveless would-be writer move to New York to realize their dreams. After suave magazine editor Rober Baker (Jack Lemmon 1973 Academy Award® winner Best Actor Save The Tiger; It Happened to Jane)insultingly rejects Ruth s corny romantic tragedies Ruth takes his advice to write about something she really knows? Her belle-of-the-ball sister s power over men. Ruth s secret jealousy of Eileen leads to a web of lies that only an international incident with the Brazilian Navy and a jail-bound conga line can untangle. The optimistic humor of Blake Edwards screenplay and the lively fun of Robert Fosse s choreography make for full-scale enjoyment in this charming big time or bust success story.System Requirements:Running Time: 107 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating: NR UPC: 043396073272 Manufacturer No: 7327

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40775 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2005-02-22
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 2.55:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Portuguese
• Subtitled in: Japanese
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 107 minutes

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

Fun to Watch
This is a fun movie that wears well and is still enjoyable over the years.

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.

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 Fosse together again! And the acting was really good also. I might fast forward Jack Lemmon's one song for the younger set..they probably wouldn't get it, but I don't like it anyways. Really the only squabble I have is Wreck's missing song! In the Ros Russell movie he had a song he would sing to himself, "I'm a rambling wreck from Georgia tech and a heck of an engineer..." I think..I might be wrong on the lyrics, but either way it was cute!