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Seven brides for seven brothers [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Stanley Donen ; screenplay by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley

Contributor(s): Donen, Stanley | Hackett, Albert | Goodrich, Frances | Kingsley, Dorothy | Powell, Jane, 1929- | Keel, Howard, 1919-2004 | Richards, Jeff, 1922-1989 | Tamblyn, Russ | Rall, Tommy | Folsey, George J, 1898- | De Paul, Gene | Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Sobbin' women | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Series: Oscar best movie collection.Publisher: Taipei City, Taiwan : Evervision Corp., [200?]Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Brides -- Drama | Brothers -- Drama | Kidnapping -- Drama | Video recordings for the hearing impaired | Feature filmsDDC classification: 791.4372
Production Credits: Director of photography, George Folsey ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary ; editor, Ralph E. Winters ; music, Gene de Paul ; costume designer, Walter Plunkett ; choreographer, Michael Kidd ; special effects, A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe
Cast: Cast: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Marc Platt, Matt Mattox, Jacques d'Amboise, Julie NewmeyerSummary: 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 Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to his brothers' loneliness - kidnap the women they want!
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791.4372 SEV (Browse shelf) 1 Available SLASx,13004,02,GR 1000136878

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Based on the story "The sobbin' women" by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Director of photography, George Folsey ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary ; editor, Ralph E. Winters ; music, Gene de Paul ; costume designer, Walter Plunkett ; choreographer, Michael Kidd ; special effects, A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe

Cast: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Marc Platt, Matt Mattox, Jacques d'Amboise, Julie Newmeyer

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 Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to his brothers' loneliness - kidnap the women they want!

DVD.