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Release Date: 1954

Cast: Howard Petrie, Tommy Rall, Ruta Lee, Ian Wolfe, Julie Newmar, Virginia Gibson, Marjorie Wood, Norma Doggett, Matt Mattox, Dick Rich, Jane Powell, Russell Simpson ...MORE

Cast: Howard Petrie, Tommy Rall, Ruta Lee, Ian Wolfe, Julie Newmar, Virginia Gibson, Marjorie Wood, Norma Doggett, Matt Mattox, Dick Rich, Jane Powell, Russell Simpson, Jacques d'Amboise, Howard Keel, Marc Platt, Russ Tamblyn, Betty Carr, Nancy Kilgas, Jeff Richards, Matthew Moore ...LESS

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 musical film directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The script (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley) is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women. The film was a 1954 Oscar nominee for Best Picture. Seven Brides is particularly known for the unusual choreography by Michael Kidd, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping... MORE

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 musical film directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The script (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley) is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women. The film was a 1954 Oscar nominee for Best Picture. Seven Brides is particularly known for the unusual choreography by Michael Kidd, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and (most famously) raising a barn. A backwoodsman named Adam Pontipee and his new bride Milly agreed to marry despite only knowing each other for only a few hours. On returning to his cabin in the mountains, Milly is surprised to learn that Adam is one of seven brothers living under the same roof. The brothers have been named alphabetically from the Old Testament and in chronological order are: Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank (short for Frankincense, the Old Testament having no names beginning with F), and Gideon. All of the brothers have red hair and are well over six feet LESS