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My Sister Eileen is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Richard Quiney released in USA on 22 september 1955 with Janet Leigh
My Sister Eileen (1955)
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Add to a movie listMy Sister Eileen is a 1955 American CinemaScope musical film directed by Richard Quine. It stars Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett and Jack Lemmon.
The screenplay by Quine and Blake Edwards is based on the 1940 play by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in The New Yorker. The play originally was filmed in 1942. (This musical film is totally different from the 1953 Broadway musical Wonderful Town, though both are based on the original Ruth McKenney source material.)
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Witty Ruth and pretty Eileen Sherwood, sisters from Columbus, Ohio, relocate to New York City and settle in a rundown basement studio apartment in a Greenwich Village building owned by Papa Appopolous. Ruth aspires to be a writer, while Eileen hopes to achieve success as an actress. They become acquainted with their neighbor Ted Loomis, an athlete who lives with his fiancée Helen.Actors
Janet Leigh
(Eileen Sherwood)
Jack Lemmon
(Bob Baker)
Betty Garrett
(Ruth Sherwood)
Horace McMahon
(Police Officer Lonigan)
Bob Fosse
(Frank Lippincott)
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