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Genre
  
Comedy, Musical

Producer
  
Arthur Loew, Jr.

Language
  
English

6.1/10
IMDb

Director
  
Don Weis

Music director
  
Jeff Alexander

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

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Writer
  
Max Shulman
,
Max Shulman

Release date
  
United States:14 August 1953France:25 December 1953Belgium:29 July 1955Japan:4 December 1960

Cast
  
Debbie Reynolds
(Pansy Hammer),
Bobby Van
(Dobie Gillis),
Barbara Ruick
(Lorna Ellingboe),
Bob Fosse
(Charlie Trask),
Hanley Stafford
(George Hammer),
Lurene Tuttle
(Mrs. Eleanor Hammer)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
Cinderella

Tagline
  
IT'S M-G-M's LOVE-HAPPY, YOUTHFUL MUSICAL!

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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (also called Casanova Junior) is a 1953 comedy musical film. The film is based on the same writings by Max Shulman as the subsequent television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Bobby Van played Gillis in this musical version, co-starring with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse.

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Plot summary

At Grainbelt University, a Midwestern university, freshman Dobie Gillis (Bobby Van) and his pal Charlie Trask (Bob Fosse) court cute coeds Pansy Hammer (Debbie Reynolds) and Lorna Ellingboe (Barbara Ruick). Pansy's wealthy father George (Hanley Stafford) can't stand Dobie and does everything in his power to keep them apart. Along the way, Dobie and Pansy manage to blow up the chemistry lab, while Dobie's officious English professor Pomfritt (Hans Conried) is misled to believe that the feckless Gillis is a literary genius.

Cast

  • Bobby Van as Dobie Gillis
  • Debbie Reynolds as Pansy Hammer
  • Bob Fosse as Charlie Trask
  • Barbara Ruick as Lorna
  • Hans Conried as Prof. Pomfritt
  • Hanley Stafford as George Hammer
  • Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
  • Charles Lane as Chemistry Professor Obispo
  • Archer MacDonald as Harry Dorcas
  • Kathleen Freeman as 'Happy Stella' Kowalski
  • Almira Sessions as Aunt Naomi

    • Songs

  • "You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right"
  • Written by Al Rinker and Floyd Huddleston
  • Performed by Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van
  • "I'm Thru with Love"
  • Music by Matty Malneck and Fud Livingston
  • Lyrics by Gus Kahn
  • Performed by Bobby Van
  • "All I Do Is Dream of You"
  • Music by Nacio Herb Brown
  • Lyrics by Arthur Freed
  • Performed by Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van
  • Played during the opening credits and often throughout the picture
  • Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms
  • Traditional Irish folk song, with lyrics by Thomas Moore
  • Performed by Debbie Reynolds and Barbara Ruick
  • "Red River Valley (song)"
  • Traditional
  • Played by the band during the square dance

    • Reception

    According to MGM records the film earned $423,000 in the US and Canada and $154,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $131,000.

    References

    The Affairs of Dobie Gillis Wikipedia
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    The Affairs of Dobie Gillis IMDbThe Affairs of Dobie Gillis Amazon.comThe Affairs of Dobie Gillis themoviedb.org


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