My Sister Eileen
Directed by Richard Quine.
With Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett.
US, 1955, DCP, color, 108 min.
With Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett.
US, 1955, DCP, color, 108 min.
Arguably Richard Quine’s most delightful film, My Sister Eileen is a musical scored by Jule Styne and Leo Robin and based on the same source material as Comden and Green’s irresistible Broadway show Wonderful Town. The film follows two sisters from Ohio who are newly transplanted to Greenwich Village and struggling to find work and love in the big city. The first film for which Bob Fosse received screen credit as a choreographer, My Sister Eileen is also perhaps the film in which Fosse appears onscreen for the greatest amount of time. A welcome alternative to the somewhat more formal MGM musicals of the period, the film possesses a charm and intimacy of scale that remains as appealing today as it was at its first release.