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The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

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Meredith Willson's second Broadway hit (the first and biggest was The Music Man) proved a lucrative vehicle for the equally unsinkable Debbie Reynolds. Based on a true story, the film casts Debbie as hoydenish Molly Brown, who wangles her way into Denver High Society when she marries "overnight millionaire" Johnny Brown (Harve Presnell). When the local social arbiters give Molly the brush-off, she pulls off a coup by bringing a representative of European royalty, Prince Louis de Laniere (Vassili

Unrated, 2 hr. 8 min.

Musical & Performing Arts, Classics

Helen Deutsch

Sep 19, 2000

MGM Home Entertainment

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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (2) | DVD (5)

Debbie Reynolds received her only Oscar nomination for playing the title role of this artistically mediocre but commercially popular musical comedy about the rags to riches of the Denver heroine who was also a passenger on the Titanic.

July 4, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Razzle-dazzle biopic kept afloat by a determined Reynolds.

October 10, 2005 Comment
Film Journal International

There's a reason why Charles Walters' musicals are less remembered than Stanley Donen's.

August 14, 2003 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The movie sinks like the Titanic.

April 22, 2003 Comment
Juicy Cerebellum

"Beware: The high spirits are contagious"

July 29, 2002 Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette
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debbie is brash and gives her all

April 4, 2007
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jay nixon

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I saw this during the whole "Titanic" craze on TV one night.Pretty funny movie.

July 3, 2006
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