Gold digger Molly
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gold digger Molly |
| Original title | The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Charles Walters |
| script | Helen German |
| production | Lawrence Weingarten |
| music |
Alexander Courage , Léo Arnaud , Calvin Jackson |
| camera | Daniel L. Fapp |
| cut | Fredric Steinkamp |
| occupation | |
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Goldgräber-Molly is the title of the film adaptation of the musical of the same name from 1964, in which the fate of the Titanic survivor and suffragette Molly Brown is the theme.
The film was directed by Charles Walters , and Debbie Reynolds took the lead .
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Molly Brown is a foundling who grew up in the Colorado forests. The naive and uneducated Molly leaves her homeland, becomes a saloon singer in Leadville for the gold diggers there and meets the nice Johnny Brown, whom she also marries. On her travels to Europe, Molly astonishes and astonishes the high society with her uncouth but practical behavior and her peasant shrewdness. So she manages to get into the high society of Denver with Johnny.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the film as a "soulful film adaptation of a musical with a fairytale-naive psychology and plot".
"A sleepy musical that derives its comedy mainly from the fact that Debbie Reynolds looks weird in oversized men's clothes and chic in Parisian evening dresses."
“An elaborate and cheerful musical whose all-too-glaring contrasts seem exaggerated. Because of the clean and essentially positive trend, however, easily possible from 12 onwards. "
Others
Molly Brown was also the name that astronaut Virgil Grissom had given the Gemini 3 spacecraft ; an ironic allusion to the fact that during Grissom's first space flight with Mercury-Redstone 4, the landing capsule sank in the Atlantic after landing.
Awards
The film received a number of Oscar nominations, including for best female lead, best production design, best camera, best costume design, best film music (including for Léo Arnaud ) and best sound. Harve Presnell won the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor for his performance .
Web links
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Goldgräber-Molly in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 26, 2007