MY SISTER EILEEN
(Columbia-CinemaScope) /OU may remember an earlier version of My Sister Eileen, which was around these parts some 12 years ago. If you do, you have the advantage of me in the matter of recall. I could summon up no more than a vague recollection of Rosalind Russell, a New York basement flat setting, and a pervading whimsicality which linked the film in my mind with such period pieces as You Can’t Take It With You, Ah, Wilderness! and the more fugitive writings of Cornelia Otis Skinner. As it turned out, vague enough was near enough. For those whose hearts were still young and gay, My Sister Eileen (with Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh and Jack Lemon) was apparently funny enough. Those (like me) whose hearts are sclerotic, or at least muscle-bound, may find themselves apathetic to the point of somnolence. I enjoyed Jack Lemmon, admittedly, but
Betty Garrett almost bust a gusset trying to be funny, and Janet Leigh’ achieved practically the same result doing nothing at all. Richard Quine directed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 16
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173MY SISTER EILEEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 16
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