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Uncle Niece Relationship | Sibling Relationship
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Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture | 1955
Most Promising Newcomer Male | 1955 | Jeff
Best Written American Musical | 1955
Top Male Musical Performance | 1955 | Howard
Motion Picture | 2020
Top Ten Films | 1954
Special Citation no category | 1954 | Michael
Best Picture | 1955 | Jack
Best Film Editing | 1955 | Ralph E.
Best Cinematography Color | 1955
Best Writing Screenplay | 1955 | Albert
Best Film from any Source | 1955
Best Youth DVD | 2005
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1955 | Stanley
Box Office Collection 5,000,000 USD
Julie Newmar (Dorcas) (here credited as Julie Newmeyer) was an accomplished dancer, but she never got a chance to show off her skills because her dance partner Jeff Richards (Benjamin Pontipee) was a former professional baseball player with no dancing skills.
Reportedly Howard Keel's personal favorite of his movies.
MGM considered this a "B" picture -- in fact, the studio diverted some of this film's original budget to Brigadoon (1954), since it was expected to be the more successful movie. This forced Stanley Donen to use painted backdrops instead of filming on location.
For the brides' costumes, designer Walter Plunkett went to the Salvation Army, found old quilts and turned them into dresses.
In order to distinguish them from the town suitors, MGM decided to make all the Pontipee Brothers red-headed.
"Caleb: There were no F names in the Bible so Ma named him Frankincense because he smelled so sweet."
"Adam: Well, Pa used to say love is kind of like the measles. You only get it once. The older you are, the tougher it goes."
