Country: USA
Year: 1954
Duration: 117'
Between 1919 and 1937, the story of Tim and Molly Donahue, a husband-and-wife vaudeville team who achieve success with their act The Two Donahues. When their three children, Terry, Steve, and Katherine, join them as singers and dancers, the act becomes The Five Donahues, bringing the family success and wealth. In time, however, their eldest son leaves show business to become a priest, while Steve falls in love with an actress (Marilyn Monroe), who draws him and his sister into a new show, forcing the Donahues to return to their roots. A musical comedy tinged with melancholy, poorly received by audiences despite its lavish budget, featuring Donald O’Connor of Singin’ in the Rain and Marilyn Monroe, who made the song Heat Wave famous.
Biography
film director
Walter Lang
(Memphis, Tennessee, USA, 1896 - Palm Springs, California, USA, 1972) was an American film director. After working himself up from desk clerk to assistant director, Walter Lang quickly established himself as a Hollywood director in the early sound era, finding his niche in the 1940s helming lavish Technicolor musicals like Moon Over Miami (1941) and Coney Island (1943). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for his work on The King and I (1957). Lang was married to Madalynne Field from 1937 until his death. He met he when he directed Lombard in Love Before Breakfast.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Golden Web (id., 1926), Money to Burn (id., 1926), The Satin Woman (id., 1927), By Whose Hand? (id., 1927), The College Hero (id., 1927), Sally in Our Alley (id., 1927), Cock o’ the Walk (id., co-regia con Roy William Neill, 1930), Brothers (id., 1930), Women Go on Forever (id., 1931), Warrior’s Husband (La disfatta delle amazzoni, 1933), Whom the Gods Destroy (Vigliaccheria, 1934), The Mighty Barnum (Il grande Barnum, 1934), Carnival (id., 1935), Hooray for Love (id., 1935), Love Before Breakfast (La bisbetica innamorata, 1936), Second Honeymoon (Mia moglie cerca marito, 1937), Wife, Doctor and Nurse (La gelosia non è di moda, 1937), I’ll Give a Million (Chi vuole un milione?, 1938), The Baroness and the Butler (La baronessa e il maggiordomo, 1938), Susannah of the Mounties (Susanna e le Giubbe Rosse, 1939), The Little Princess (La piccola principessa, 1939), The Blue Bird (Alla ricerca della felicità, 1940), Tin Pan Alley (Una notte a Broadway, 1940), Star Dust (La via delle stelle, 1940), Moon over Miami (Appuntamento a Miami, 1941), Weekend in Havana (Tre settimane d’amore, 1941), Song of the Islands (Maia, la sirena delle Hawaii, 1942), The Magnificent Dope (Il magnifico fannullone, 1942), Coney Island (L’isola delle sirene, 1943), Greenwich Village (Samba d’amore, 1944), State Fair (Festa d’amore, 1944), Sentimental Journey (Non dirmi addio, 1946), Claudia and David (La vita è nostra, 1946), Mother Wore Tights (Come nacque il nostro amore, 1947), Sitting Pretty (Governante rubacuori, 1948), You Are My Everything (Sono tua, 1949), Cheaper by the Dozen (Dodici lo chiamano papà, 1950), The Jackpot (La fortuna si diverte, 1950), On the Riviera (Divertiamoci stanotte, 1951), With a Song in My Heart (La dominatrice del destino, 1952), Call Me Madam (Chiamatemi Madame, 1953), There’s No Business Like Show Business (Follie dell’anno, 1954), The King and I (Il re ed io, 1956), Desk Set (La segretaria quasi privata, 1957), But Not for Me (Ma non per me, 1959), Can-Can (id., 1960), Snow White and the Three Stooges (Biancaneve e i tre compari, 1961), The Marriage-Go-Round (Carosello matrimoniale, 1961).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Walter Lang. STORY: Lamar Trotti. SCREENPLAY: Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Leon Shamroy. EDITING: Robert L. Simpson. PRODUCTION DESIGN: John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler. COSTUMES: Travilla, Miles White. MUSIC: Irving Berlin. CAST: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Gaynor, Richard Eastham, Hugh O'Brian, Frank McHugh, Rhys Williams, Lee Patrick, Eve Miller, Robin Raymond. PRODUCER: Sol C. Siegel for 20th Century Fox. CONTACT: Park Circus www.parkcircus.com
