seven brides for seven brothers + cast

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical film released in 1954. It was 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.

The film 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.

seven brides for seven brothers Cast
Brothers and their Brides:
Howard Keel as Adam and Jane Powell as Milly
Jeff Richards as Benjamin and Julie Newmar (Newmeyer) as Dorcas
Matt Mattox as Caleb and Ruta Lee as Ruth
Marc Platt as Daniel and Norma Doggett as Martha
Jacques d’Amboise as Ephraim and Virginia Gibson as Liza
Tommy Rall as Frank and Betty Carr as Sarah
Russ Tamblyn as Gideon and Nancy Kilgas as Alice

Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers – all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers’ loneliness. Written by Melissa Portell {mportell@s-cwis.unomaha.edu}

On one of his few trips into town per year, backwoodsman Adam Pontipee has a larger shopping list than usual. On his shopping list this time is a wife, not only a beautiful woman, but one that can cook and clean and transform his pigsty of a farm into a real home. Against the odds, he does find one in the form of Millie, the headstrong cook at the local inn. For her, it’s love at first sight. Upon arriving at Adam’s farm in the Oregon mountains, Millie finds her new lot in life is not only as loving wife, but housemaid to Adam’s six brothers, who all live at the farm. The Pontipee’s are rough and tumble and ill mannered as they haven’t been exposed to much in life outside their remote farm. Adam’s new life and a trip into town themselves inspires the six brothers to find wives of their own. Adam and Millie each have differing views on how best to achieve the brothers’ collective wish. As the six unmarried brothers strive to achieve their goal, Adam may lose his in taking his wife for granted.

Source: WIKI + IMDB