My Six Loves

1963
Approved
1 Std. 41 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuBroadway musical star arrives home and finds six runaway children living on the property.Broadway musical star arrives home and finds six runaway children living on the property.Broadway musical star arrives home and finds six runaway children living on the property.

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6,5/10

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Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Debbie Reynolds was filming this simultaneously with How the West Was Won. Actor Barry Livingston's brother was working on that film. Barry remembers fondly that Debbie was playing his foster mom during the week, and his brother's grandmother on the weekends.

Patzer
In many scenes of the movie, Leo Smith (played by Billy E. Hughes) is seen wearing a rather flashy gold ring on his left hand. He and his five siblings are supposedly unwanted and basically homeless, none of them has more than the clothes on their backs, so it seems he would not have been wearing a ring. Evidently Billy Hughes forgot to take off his personal jewelry, and nobody noticed in time. Watch for the ring (among other scenes) where Debbie Reynolds is talking to him about praying to God, or when he is opening some of the boxes of clothing that were bought for him and he is examining his new shoes. The ring is plainly visible.

Zitate
Janice Courtney: I'm sorry, Jim, but scheming two-headed sex-pots make great parts for an actress, and no one is gonna talk me out of playing it. I've worked too hard and too long to wind up my career as chief cook and bottle washer in Connecticut.
Reverend Jim Larkin: Well, I guess that about covers it.

Verbindungen
Referenced in Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)

Soundtracks
It's a Darn Good Thing
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
Sung by Debbie Reynolds

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Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

Broadway Debbie gets a family

Debbie Reynolds gets a pair of co-stars and a batch of kids to share the screen with in My Six Loves. She plays a prominent stage actress who out of fatigue and doctor's orders retreats to her house in Connecticut before embarking on any new projects.

Her co-stars are theatrical producer David Janssen who's produced a couple of her shows and the Reverend Cliff Robertson who ministers a church in her Connecticut neighborhood. But her real problem is a family of six kids who have squatted on her land, left there by their parents.

Of course she and girl Friday Eileen Heckart take the kids in and before long the idea of a family kind of grows on her and it conflicts with her career. Robertson helps out quite willingly and even Janssen as gruff as his character is also pitches in.

There are a couple of beautiful performances by Max Showalter and Mary McCarty who come back to claim the kids. As it turns out they were dumped on them by her sister and they keep them around for those six welfare checks that come in. Showalter and McCarty are a true pair of white trash bottom feeders who get quite a lesson in justice by Judge John McGiver.

This was a perfect film for Debbie Reynolds. I think only Doris Day could have handled it maybe as well had she been cast. It holds up well today and I highly recommend it for family audiences.