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RICH, YOUNG AND PRETTY
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CREDITS
1951, 95 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Norman Taurog; Screenplay, Dorothy Cooper and Sidney Sheldon; Cinematography, Robert Planck; Choreography, Nick Castle.
CAST
Elizabeth Rogers, Jane Powell; Marie Devarone, Danielle Darrieux; Jim Stanton Rogers, Wendell Corey; Andre Milan, Vic Damone; Paul Sarnac, Fernando Lamas; Claude Duval, Marcel Dalio; Glynnie, Una Merkel; Bob Lennart, Richard Anderson; Henri Milan, Jean Murat; Gypsy Leader, Duci deKerekjarto.
SONGS
Wonder Why; We Never Talk Much; How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning?; Dark Is The Night; Paris; L'Amour Toujour, Tonight For Sure; I Can See You by Nicholas Brodszky and Sammy Cahn; There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie by Jack Meskill and Pete Wendling; The Old Piano Roll Blues by Cy Coben; Deep In The Heart Of Texas by June Hershey and Don Swander.
PLOT
"Elizabeth Rogers (Jane Powell) is giving her father (Wendell Corey) plenty to worry about; he warily brought his petite fille with him on a political trip to France, hoping that she would discover a little culture - instead, she finds love with debonair Vic Damone and the mother (Danielle Darrieux) she has never known. Her older and wiser father, knowing the disaster that can occur when one falls for a French foreigner (as he did for Darrieux), attempts to keep Elizabeth away from her mother and her new Parisian prince. But when he leaves town for two days to take care of state affairs, the divine Darrieux takes care of affairs of the heart and makes sure that the young couple discovers all the love that Paris has to offer."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc
NOTES
". . .a handsomely packaged (in Technicolor) feather-light bon bon. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION:
Best Song - "Wonder Why"
This film marked the screen debut of both Vic Damone and Fernando Lamas.
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