Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

It has a great cast, too!

Howard Keel; Jane Powell; Russ Tamblyn

with Nancy Kilgas, Jeff Richards, Matt Mattox, Ruta Lee, Marc Platt, Norma Doggett, Jacques d'Amboise, Virginia Gibson, Tommy Rall, Betty Carr as the brothers and sisters,

and, of course, DL Fav Julie Newmar

Julie Newmar was not only a model, but a classically trained pianist. Attached is a video of her playing Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu

quote]and, of course, DL Fav Julie Newmeyer

Fixed it for you, r1.

[quote]and, of course, DL Fav Julie Newmeyer

Fixed it for me

I always thought this was a porn

One of the most beautiful women to ever live

Too gay even for me.

Seven Hags for Seven Fags

I’d star in 7 brothers the porn

R7 How?

You aren't going to find a musical with more masculine dancers or choreography.

Big fan. I always squealed with delight as a little boy when Jane Powell would substitute for Eileen Fulton on “As the World Turns”.

No mention of Oklahoma?!? OP is a commie bastard!

OP is right, it is a terrific movie musical. It was a great shock to MGM that this Jack Cummings musical (Cummings had nothing like the prestige of Arthur Freed or even Joe Pasternak) was not only one of the biggest box office successes of the year, but was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Something that Freed’s expensive prestige musical “Brigadoon,” starring Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Van Johnson was not.

Of course you can see why it was popular with the public and Hollywood — it managed to be a randy, sexy (actively advocating healthy sexual appetites for young women and men) while always staying in the bounds of the censorship rules of the time.

Of course in the post #metoo era, a lot of aspects of the film, starting with abduction and flirting with rape (though if course this never happens) Makes it extremely problematic with youngters today.

The dance numbers are fun

It was the rare film title that was actually mentioned in the dialogue of I Love Lucy. And not even in one of the episodes set in Hollywood.

Horrible costumes on the women. I don't know what they were thinking. I guess Irene Sharaff, the other Irene and Helen Rose all thought it was beneath them.

"Seven Brides" is one of the great musicals of the 1950's and 1960's, competing alongside Singin' in the Rain, The King and I, South Pacific, High Society, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and many more."

Okay. Can you name one song from it? I can't. And I've seen it a few times.

Every song in it is precious though. The film has terrific energy and the Michael Kidd choreography is out of this world.

The Barn Raising Dance

[quote]Can you name one song from it?

I can, r18, but I had the soundtrack. My favorite...

TCM shows it regularly. It’s also on Tubi.

No standards came from it but the score is very tuneful. One of the best original scores of the decade, and it was a fact that the Great American Songbook writers were increasingly moving to Broadway where they had more control over the material they wrote.

The lack of great original scores was one of the things that killed off the Hollywood musical.

It's Spring, Spring, Spring! is also a fun song.

R18 Bless your Beautiful Hide!

I'm a lonesome polecat.

Should I watch it?

Yes.

Always loved Howard Keel. That voice!!

I only liked Tommy Rall.

I must have seen this for the first time on TV in the 1960s and it was a big family event, all ten of us watched. Even my father and 2 brothers liked it.

My mother and my 2 sisters, and our grandmother, they must have seen it listed in TV GUIDE, had staked a claim on the "big colour TV" in the den and then my sisters went about making munchies. Days ahead Potheads, my older brother too. Family party with no guests, just us. A cool idea.

Eventually "the ladies of the house" realized our little den/tv room would be too small for all of us to watch together so my three elder siblings moved the BIG COLOUR TV to the BIG PLAYROOM in the basement. My little brother and I were told "put away your Dinky/Matchbox/Corgi/Hot Wheels toys" and we gladly complied.

What a great film. My favourite family moment. The usual drama was gone, if only for that short time.

My grandfather was the only dissenting vote. "A glorious waste of time."

I’m related to Howard Keel. He was a great great cousin

[quote]r32 = He was a great great cousin

I'm glad he wasn't a mediocre one.

Grandma had a beautiful pussy

Details, R32. Never read anything negative about him. He sounded like a good guy.

[quote]He sounded like a good guy.

He hit 𝙢𝙚 in the head with a fondue pot.

So did I R5!

But r32, did you ever meet Howard Keel?

I agree, he seemed like a nice guy. Sad that he only became a star as musicals faded from the scene. I'm surprised though that he couldn't sustain a non-musical career in Hollywood - he would have seemingly been perfect for Westerns if nothing else. He certainly aged well, a hot granddaddy in his Dallas years.

Didn't he brag about bedding Marilyn Monroe in his autobiography?

For a long time, I thought Howard Keel was Dustin Hoffman's attorney in Kramer v. Kramer. Turns out it was Howard Duff.

Howard Duff was even hotter than Howard Keel!

I'll take Harve Presnell, thank you very much.

Harve and his gigantic hairpiece, r41?

R40, you’re delusional. Though Howard Duff does appear on an episode of The Golden Girls (father of the bride with the socks).

I side with R11. Though West Side Story also had Tamblyn, Seven Brides had Jacques d’Amboise.

Seven Brides is in my Top 10 favorites of all time. It’s just joy. I have the poster framed in my living room.

The brothers are lusty AF.

So, I guess Russ Tamblyn was the only brother who didn't have to dye his hair red or wear a red wig?

Did Tommy Rall go red?

The virility!

Jane sure gets the boys riled up! They even dance with each other!

I always feel so bad for Jeff Richards who was the hottest brother but couldn't sing or dance and was just there to be a pretty face.

And because it damn well, R48.

Still astounds me that Russ Tamblyn is still with us. Not many performers alive who have credits dating to the 1940s.

Together again!

There's also Margaret O'Brien.

If Josh Logan had directed then the brothers would have been shirtless in the barn raising dance.

There was also this ill-advised short-lived tv series in the early '80s. The older brothers (Richard Dean Anderson, Peter Horton, pre-DAYS Drake Hogestyn) were hot, the middle ones not so much, and of course, River Phoenix as the youngest. As I recall, there was one song/musical number shoe-horned into each episode.

^I remember watching that show!

I love this movie just for the campiness of it all: the brothers go from being dirty, feral pigs to dance numbers with axes. No small accomplishment!

I'm surprised some SJW hasn't tried to get TCM to cancel this movie, but anyone could tell that the brothers are more likely to give the girls a make over & fashion forward hairdo rather than rape them. And Jane Powell & Howard Keel have great chemistry together

At least on the TV series the brothers didn't look like they were all the same age.

There was also "Here Come the Brides," which was clearly inspired by this movie.