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The movie's exotic Mexican locations were recreated on the MGM backlot. The studio introduced Jane in the movie's opening credits as "Your Young Singing Star," even though it was her third screen appearance. Christine not only runs her father's household, but also tries to run his love life with Ilona Massey while finding time for a crush on fiftyish Jose Iturbi, much to the disapproval of boyfriend Stanley Owen Roddy McDowall. And, of course, she also sings like an angel. Holiday In Mexico's lavish finale, supposedly staged at the Hollywood Bowl, but filmed on a huge MGM soundstage, includes Jane's beautiful rendition of Schubert's "Ava Maria" stunningly photographed with the singer dressed in an exquisite white gown in front of Iturbi's orchestra.

One critic dubbed this sequence a "Eucharistic Congress staged by famed showman Billy Rose. The critics praised Jane's acting and lovely singing voice, but some groused about the movie's excessive minute length. In the film, we see the hairdressers begin to lighten Jane's brown hair. Over the years its color would progress from honey blonde to near platinum.

Jane Powell had now appeared in her first big Technicolor musical. Officially an MGM star, she posed on the cover of "Life" magazine's September 9, issue, at the tender age of seventeen. Although Jane's official occupation was now "movie star", in between films MGM kept its "girl next door" constantly busy with other projects.

There were radio appearances on the Hedda Hopper and Frank Sinatra shows. Truman in Washington, D. There were also publicity tours in which Jane would perform a vaudeville act at Loew's theaters MGM's parent company across the country promoting her own and other MGM films being shown there. This involved a grueling schedule of seven or eight shows per day, seven days a week.

Jane was back before the cameras in Three Daring Daughters , a Technicolor musical pastiche designed by Pasternak as a "comeback" vehicle for the lovely Jeanette MacDonald, who was returning to MGM after a six-year absence. Three Daring Daughters was directed by Fred M.

The movie presented MacDonald in her next to last film as Louise Morgan, a longtime, divorced mother and workaholic fashion magazine editor. Louise had divorced her incompatible, globe-trotting newspaper reporter husband, but neglected to tell her three daughters the truth about their father. As with many MGM musicals of the period, the plot is secondary to the musical performances.

Three Daring Daughters is filled with musical highlights. The glorious Jeanette MacDonald sings several numbers. Iturbi performs both solo and in two twin-piano duets with his real-life sister Amparo Iturbi. The song was reprised several times during the movie and became a Hit Parade favorite. Although Three Daring Daughters did well at the box office, the critics were not impressed. Bosley Crowther described Jane as "attractive and melodius," but called the movie "downright embarrassing in some of the stickier scenes.

Worst of all is the complete miscasting of short, balding Jose Iturbi as the "perfect husband" for the sophisticated Jeanette MacDonald. Next up, Luxury Liner a sprightly Technicolor confection set aboard a lavish ocean liner bound for South America. Produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Richard Whorf, the movie offers a boatload of comedy, romance, a bright mixture of popular and classical music, and a passenger list of top-notch entertainers.

In other words, it's MGM glamour set to music on the high seas. Polly Bradford Jane is a spunky music student at an exclusive girls' school. Polly desperately wants to accompany her widowed father, ocean liner Captain Jeremy Bradford George Brent on a cruise to Rio hoping to showcase her singing talents to voyaging opera star Olaf Eriksen Wagnerian tenor and MGM's "prestige" performer Lauritz Melchior , who is also accompanied by operatic soprano Zita Romanka Marina Koshetz. When the Captain refuses, Polly, who always seems to be "dramatizing" decides to stowaway on dad's ship.

Cast as the shows "leading man," a handsome, uniformed hussar, Jane sings "Spring Came Back To Vienna" and enacts an innocent "love scene" with the leading lady. The sound of Jane's glorious voice emerging from an Austrian hussar is rather disconcerting! In the ship's kitchen, she and the crew sing and dance to the French-Canadian folk song, "Alouette," which somehow includes the always delightful character actress Connie Gilchrist in a bit role.

Jane also pays homage to Brazilian Bombshell Carmen Miranda in the "Alouette" number, complete with a basket of fruit atop her pretty head! It was smooth sailing for Luxury Liner at the boxoffice. In her memoirs, Jane described George Brent as "so goodlooking, and fun, and had a wonderful sense of humor.

Years later, Brent reentered Jane's life when he attended a performance of South Pacific in which she starred. Brent confessed he had always loved Jane since Luxury Liner, but couldn't pursue her then because of her age, and someone was always with her. He had never forgotten her. In her memoir, Jane stated George asked her to marry him, but she refused since she loved him as a friend and was not "in love" with him. Senior class dances, chocolate sundaes at the drugstore soda fountain, and the trials and tribulations of teen romance are among the ingredients of MGM's delightful "accent on youth" Technicolor musical, A Date With Judy , based on the popular, long-running radio series which premiered in About the only thing absent from this idealized look at high school life in the s, a la MGM, is any classroom activity!

Instead Director Richard Thorpe substitutes the talents of a superlative cast and a tuneful musical score. In addition to Jane, the movie boasts eccentric Wallace Beery, the ravishing teenage beauty of Elizabeth Taylor, handsome Robert Stack, the exciting rhythms of Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, and outlandishly costumed and fabulous Carmen Miranda. A Date With Judy begins with Jane rehearsing a number for the senior dance. Jane's other numbers included a lively duet with Scotty Beckett to "Strictly on The Corny Side" and "Judaline" performed with a male chorus.

A Date With Judy would become Jane's third successful movie of Unlike her fond memories of George Brent, Jane described Wallace Beery in her autobiography as her "least favorite dad. He never said hello. He never said goodbye. He was a notorious scene stealer. Jane remembered Elizabeth Taylor "got to wear green eye shadow, show her figure in a tight sweater, and look sexy" even though she was younger. Jane admitted she was a little jealous, not of Elizabeth, but of the green eye shadow!

The ceremony was a huge, lavish MGM-style extravaganza with five hundred invited guests. Elizabeth Taylor was one of Jane's bridesmaids. Jane had met Steffen two years earlier when he was Sonja Henie's ice skating partner.

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The fan magazines, which had always lavished attention on Jane, now became ecstatic over the fairy tale wedding of The Girl Next Door and the athletic, All-American boy. Once again, Jane pleased both MGM and the public by living out her fans' fantasies. Jane was then off screen for nearly a year. Jane began the new decade with two highly-successful movies.

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Leonard turned it into a Technicolor glossy carnival of romance and music with a cast of MGM favorites. Although set in Brazil, the production was lensed on the MGM lot, with a few stock footage shots of the glamorous Rio de Janiero added as background. In the film Jane plays a talented seventeen-year-old would-be actress three years younger than the real Jane who becomes a rival to her mother, a famous Broadway star, played by Ann Sothern.

Rivalry would divide the two not only on stage, but in love as well. Although the plot is rather familiar, Nancy Goes To Rio is quite entertaining. Both Jane and the wonderful Ann Sothern are beautifully photographed in lush close-ups by cinematographer Ray June. Helen Rose's costumes are breathtaking. As with most Pasternak musicals, the score is wonderful. The movie concludes with a lavish production number featuring Jane and a chorus of male dancers performing "Love Is Like This. Jane regards it as her personal favorite. This fan wholeheartedly agrees having seen the movie as a child in its initial release, and a dozen times since.

Patti is anxious to turn eighteen and wear her first corset, then considered a badge of femininity. At the resort, Patti develops a crush on an older man, the handsome Cuban Demi Armendez Ricardo Montalban , who is also desired by a more mature woman Phyllis Kirk. Two Weeks With Love is an entrancing musical. The period sets and costumes are splendid and the performances of Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Carleton Carpenter, and especially Debbie Reynolds are excellent.

Ricardo's manly charm and Latin flair are the perfect complement to Jane's luscious blonde beauty. In a wonderful sequence, Jane dreams she's a femme fatale. She wears a pink satin corset with long, black silk stockings, long white kid gloves, shoes with rhinestone buckles, and a large pink-tulle picture hat. She twirls a pink ruffled umbrella and has a beauty mark painted on her face. She thrillingly sings "My Hero" while she and Ricardo waltz and he lifts her in the air. This Freudian dream sequence was staged by the famed Busby Berkeley and was used in the movie's advertising campaign.

One of her most memorable numbers was her terrific rendition of the ragtime classic, "The Oceana Roll," sung and danced in the hotel lounge with a group of youngsters, including Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter. The movie's big song hit, though, was "Aba Daba Honeymoon," effervescently performed by Reynolds and Carpenter, who nearly stole the picture. Jane loved making Two Weeks With Love, and she's wonderful in it. She can make you laugh one minute, cry the next, and long for the idealized "good old days. Jane's next assignment would be her most prestigious role to date.

For the first time, MGM allowed Jane to leave her teen years behind and portray a character her actual age. Royal Wedding co-starred Jane opposite the inimitable Fred Astaire, and was conceived by esteemed producer Arthur Freed who was responsible for some of MGM's greatest musicals.

Freed based the film on incidents that paralleled Fred Astaire's real-life partnership with his sister Adele Astaire. The Astaires were a wildly successful dance team until Adele ended the act to marry a British nobleman. Freed commissioned Alan Jay Lerner, fresh from his Broadway triumph with the musical Brigadoon to write the screenplay and the film's score with Burton Lane. Nick Castle was assigned the film's choreography. The Technicolor production was directed by Stanley Donen.

Freed had initially envisioned Vera-Ellen as Astaire's sister in the film. However, when production started, June Allyson had been assigned the part. Allyson had begun rehearsing the dance routines with Astaire when she learned she was pregnant and had to drop the role. Garland and Astaire had successfully teamed in Easter Parade , so they seemed an ideal combination.

Fred started teaching Judy the dance numbers, but she was fired by the studio for missing a rehearsal. Jane was finally set for the role. She was thrilled to be working with Fred Astaire in a movie that offered a more adult role, with sophisticated costumes and musical numbers. Jane had to learn the dance routines in a record three weeks because so much time already had been lost during the casting changes.

Since Astaire had already taught the routines to June and Judy, Jane spent most of her time rehearsing privately and spent little time actually rehearsing with Fred. The actual ceremony took place in November The London production is a huge success and each of the Bowens unexpectedly fall in love. Despite a few misunderstandings, the movie's finale finds both couples marrying on the same day as the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip. And just like Fred and Adele Astaire, the Bowens break-up their act.

Jane will remain in London, while Fred will go solo, perhaps eventually teaming with Churchill. Jane and Astaire performed four dance routines together in Royal Wedding. The movie opens with a production number from their Broadway show. Astaire, complete with crown, plays a rather bored monarch who sings "Every Night At Seven" as he pursues pretty chambermaid Jane around the throne room. The couple dance briefly and as the number ends, the chambermaid now wears a queen's crown!

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Sailing for England, the Bowens are invited to perform a ballroom routine for the ship's passengers. The number begins with Jane singing the lovely waltz, "Open Your Eyes.

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The dance ends with the couple unexpectedly being swept off their feet by an ambulatory sofa! Many musical films of the s and '50s featured a tropical Latin-themed production number complete with singing and dancing "natives" in colorful costumes. Royal Wedding is no exception. Astaire sings a clever samba, "I Left My Hat In Haiti," complaining about leaving his "blue-gray fedora" with a "Haitian dilly who has the prettiest hat I own.

Fred encounters his "Haitian dilly" Jane who is not wearing a hat. They perform a spirited, exotic dance that ends with a monkey jumping into Fred's arms and giving him back his hat! Jane is his gum-chewing, flashy gal in a tight-fitting skirt, sweater and close-cropped black wig. The two sing, dance and toss off witty banter in a coarse, lowdown style, each trying to upstage the other.

Jane gets the best of Fred after he confesses his infidelities as he wriggles off stage. Jane is delightful in this number as she swings her hips like a tough cookie and demonstrates a hilarious comic ability. Astaire drops his usual elegant style, while Jane is miles away from her "girl next door" image. Jane's rendition is both tender and wistful. The British government had filmed a Technicolor documentary of the actual wedding ceremony in MGM arranged to obtain actual background footage to include in Royal Wedding.

Jane received wonderful reviews for the picture. Critics found the film "engaging," and "quite pleasant. Unfortunately, Metro failed to capitalize on the comedic and dancing skills she had demonstrated opposite Astaire. Instead, the studio cast Jane in an entertaining piece of fluff in which she played another teenage lass though a slightly older one.

Liz and the family housekeeper Glynnie Una Merkel accompany Mr. Stanton on a diplomatic trip to Paris for a speaking engagement. Marie, it seems, has arranged this meeting since she learned that Jim Stanton and his daughter were in Paris. As it turns out, Marie has a very special reason for wanting to meet Liz. Rich, Young and Pretty boasts a bevy of musical numbers, which compensate for a plot that's little more than a feather light souffle.

An attractive score by Nicholas Brodszky and Sammy Cahn joins a group of old favorites. Arriving in Paris, Jane charmingly sings the lilting "Paris". Another hit song emerged from Rich, Young and Pretty.

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The New York Times called Jane's performance "fetching" and cheerful. Jane indeed looked "rich, young and pretty" in the sumptuous costumes designed by Helen Rose. Vic Damone proved to be an excellent co-star for Jane. The two would appear in three more MGM movies together. The Steffens would call the boy "G. Small Town Girl offered Jane yet another girl-next-door role. The update was set in the small hamlet of Duck Creek, New York, not too distant from the bright lights of Broadway. She also has a cute younger brother named Dennis Bobby Hyatt.

Cindy is employed at Papa Eric Schlemmer's S. Sakall Emporium, an establishment which features everything from a soda fountain to the latest ladies' fashions. Papa's talented son Ludwig Bobby Van is Cindy's suitor who longs for a career singing and dancing on Broadway, even though Papa wants him to take over the business and marry Cindy. When rich and handsome big-city playboy Rick Belrow Livingston Farley Granger is arrested for driving 85 miles per hour through Duck Creek on a Sunday morning, he attempts to buy his way out of a speeding ticket.

Judge Kimbell sentences Rick to 30 days in jail. It's only a matter of time before Cindy and Rick are thrown together in a whirlwind romance, which conveniently frees Ludwig to pursue his true ambitions. The highpoints of Small Town Girl, however, were the dance sequences staged by the legendary Busby Berkeley and excellently performed by Bobby Van and Ann Miller, who plays Jane's romantic rival. Berkeley's dance numbers added musical magic to a film that needed that extra something to elevate its routine musical comedy romance.

Although Small Town Girl was highly entertaining, it left Jane's fans yearning for more of the brassy comedy and excellent dancing skills she displayed in Royal Wedding. The Los Angeles Examiner felt the movie "Captures the romantic imagination of young, old and inbetweens. Meanwhile, the fan magazines featured Jane and Geary as "Hollywood's dream couple, with dream babies and a dream house.

But already cracks were beginning to appear in the "perfect marriage. Soon, it became clear that the film had precipitated a drastic change in Jane's life. The story was partially based on the George S. Kaufman play, The Butter And Egg Man, which had previously been filmed in , , and under various titles. Leonard and the crew are given 30 days shore leave and eight months' back pay.

Woods convinces Penny to romance Choirboy so the gobs will put their money in the show. The standout number is the energetic, "The Lively Song" performed several times by the four principals. Jane performs a knockout burlesque-style song called, "Kiss Me Or I'll Scream" in revealing black tights.

Poured into a succession of short dancing costumes, figure-flattering tights and midriff-baring costumes, Jane displays a shapely pair of gams and is sexier than she'd ever been on screen. The movie's big finale, "Home Is Where The Heart Is," performed by Jane, Gordon, Gene, and company is a showstopper which allows Jane to appear in several different locales, including Mexico and Siam Thailand in colorful and exotic native costumes.

Off-screen Jane had fallen in love with her co-star Gene Nelson. The "dream" marriage of Jane and Geary Steffen ended in a burst of shock and disbelief. Suddenly, MGM's "girl next door" and Warner's top male dancing star found themselves involved in a major scandal that shook Hollywood.

Jane filed for divorce on August 6, , as did Gene's wife Miriam Nelson after a marriage of eleven years and one child. In her memoirs, Jane stated her difficulties with Geary were caused by their different attitudes: The fan magazines were now filled with stories about the couple. Another debated, "Is Jane Powell Heartless? Amid all the turmoil, Jane performed at the famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Hollywood with Gene Nelson present to offer support. The engagement was a tremendous success for Jane, who dazzled the critics in a bright, fire-engine red Helen Rose gown.

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Jane had wanted to convince MGM she really had grown up. Jane eagerly awaited their divorces becoming final so she could marry Gene, but as suddenly as the affair began, the Powell-Nelson romance ended. In late , Gene Nelson stated he was not sure and wanted to think about their relationship. Jane was embarrassed and angry: I had broken my image, all right. I had broken up a lot of things I cared about. Rugged frontier farmer and the eldest of seven unmarried brothers Adam Pontipee Howard Keel rides into a small Oregon town to claim himself a bride.

Adam sets his romantic sights on Milly Jane , a pretty waitress at the town's cafe. Attracted to the handsome farmer, Milly accepts Adam's marriage proposal unaware their love nest will be shared with Adam's six siblings. Angered at first, Milly sets out to teach the brothers cleanliness and manners, but has her work cut out for her. At a barn-raising, the Pontipee brothers become smitten when they meet a bevy of young girls. The brothers show off by engaging in a brawl with town boys who try to humiliate them. Returning home, the brothers pine for the girls, and Adam tells them about the "sobbin' women" - that is the Sabine women of ancient Rome who were abducted.

Adam advises the boys follow the example of their Roman predecessors, slip into town and nab the girls. Although Seven Brides For Seven Brothers is remembered fondly for Michael Kidd's robust choreography of the film's highlight sequence, the barn raising dance number with acrobatics and the choreographed fight that follows, the film contains some splendid vocal delights. For sheer high-spirited exhilaration, Jane's beautiful singing of the joyous "Wonderful, Wonderful Day" would be difficult to top. Performed in a breathtakingly-rendered MGM soundstage "meadow" on their wedding day as Milly and Adam stop to rest on the way to the Pontipee farm, "Wonderful, Wonderful Day" is an emotional highlight.

Equally exhilarating is the foot-stomping "Goin' Courtin'" sung and danced by Jane and the six Pontipee brothers as Milly attempts to teach them the art of courting a girl. Petite Jane and tall and rugged Howard Keel proved a surprisingly-adept romantic team and their duet of the lovely "When You're In Love" is enchanting. Jane also joins the Pontipee brothers and their brides in the sprightly "Spring, Spring, Spring" number, celebrating winter's end. Reviews of the picture were uniformly excellent. When the right material presented itself, Jane Powell was as splendid a performer as any of MGM's great musical stars.

Sadly, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers would be the last movie really worthy of her incredible talents. Following her disastrous affair with Gene Nelson, Jane met and later married businessman Pat Nerney on November 8, The Nerneys would welcome a baby girl, Lindsay Averille, on February 1, Just as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers included seven male siblings with Biblical names, Athena starred seven charming sisters all named after Greek goddesses.

The sisters are the granddaughters of eccentric grandparents, Ulysses Mulvain Louis Calhern and Salome Mulvain Norma Varden , whose regimen consists of exercise, natural foods such as vegetables, nuts, and berries, a firm belief in numerology and the stars, and meditation with the spirit of "Narda", who seemingly governs their lives.

When Athena, an Aquarius, meets handsome but stuffy Adam Calhorn Shaw Edmund Purdom , a Sagittarius, she's convinced that love can change the stars, even though their astrological signs suggest the opposite. In no time, Athena and Minerva have Adam and Johnny consuming healthy foods, lifting barbells, breathing lots of fresh air and stargazing in an effort to convert them to the Mulvain concept of the good life. Universe of , and later Hercules in the Italian sword and sandal films. Jane sings some wonderful numbers in Athena. Her opening song, the joyous "Vocalize", is pure delight.

Jane was quite fond of Athena, even though most critics were not. Perhaps Athena was ahead of its time and may have been better reviewed twenty years later when health-food faddists, positive thinkers, numerologists and psychics were more in vogue. Despite this, Athena has gained a cult following due to the appearance of future Hercules star, Steve Reeves.

Deep In My Heart was an excellent biography of Hungarian-born composer Sigmund Romberg effectively played by Jose Ferrer , whose operettas and musical shows dazzled Broadway from the early s to the s. The movie chronicled Romberg's rise to prominence from musician in a modest Second Avenue cafe to Broadway eminence, along with the courtship of his wife Lillian newcomer Doe Avedon who had previously been seen in John Wayne's The High and The Mighty as a flight attendant.

She exhibited little star quality as Mrs. Romberg and seems to have disappeared from the screen soon after. Since Sigmund Romberg's life and career were hardly the stuff of high drama, MGM decided to stress the entertainment inherent in the composer's music and theatrical productions. To perform the immortal Romberg melodies, MGM assigned just about every musical performer at the studio to appear as guest stars in the picture.

The star-spangled assemblage included Rosemary Clooney Mrs. Jane and Vic Damone appear in an excerpt from Maytime , one of Romberg's greatest and longest-running successes. In a lush garden setting, beneath trees filled with falling pink and white May blossoms, Jane and Damone sing the enchanting "Will You Remember Sweetheart " ending in a passionate kiss. Listed in the cast as playing Ottilie van Zandt Maytime's original leading lady , Jane is resplendent in a lovely white period gown and picture hat.

MGM advertised the movie as containing 22 hit songs from eleven Broadway shows. Deep In My Heart would also be the last of MGM's all-star composer biographies so popular with audiences of the s and s.

Jane says she always regretted losing the role, especially since Ruth Etting herself told an interviewer that she had wanted Jane to play her. Had Jane played Etting in the dramatic musical biography, the course of her career might have changed dramatically. A silent film featured Richard Barthelmess. A musical based on the stage musical starred Jack Oakie. Metro's lavish musical production retained some aspects of the original stage story, while updating the script to highlight the considerable talents of a powerhouse cast.

MGM also retained Vincent Youmans' sparkling score. Popular song stylist Kay Armen was selected to play Vic Damone's mother, even though they were approximately the same age! After some romantic complications are solved, and the boys escape the consequences of a nasty brawl, each boy ends up with his own girl just in time for a gargantuan finale. The next morning, Milly decides to teach Adam and his brothers cleanliness and proper manners - especially at the table during meals.

After the brothers wash and shave, Milly is shocked at how handsome they are, and that none of them got married. It turns out that the brothers rarely saw a girl or woman and never learned how to communicate with them. At first, the brothers have a hard time changing from their "mountain man" ways, but eventually come to see their only chance to get brides of their own is to do things Milly's way. They try out their new manners at a social gathering in the town a dance and barn-raising , where they meet six women they like — Dorcas, Ruth, Martha, Liza, Sarah, and Alice. The girls take a fancy to the brothers as well.

However, all of them already have suitors among the young men of the town, who taunt the brothers into fighting during the barn-raising. At first, the six brothers remember Milly's teachings and try to resist being drawn into a fight. The suitors finally go too far when they attack Adam, provoking Gideon into fighting back.

A brawl ensues in which the brothers dominate their physically weaker town rivals. Although the Pontipee brothers did not start the fight, they are kicked out of the town by the townspeople. Winter comes, and the six younger brothers are pining for the girls they had fallen in love with. Milly asks Adam to talk to the brothers as she fears they will want to leave because of missing the girls.

Adam reads his brothers the story of "The Sobbin' Women" taken from Plutarch 's story of the Sabine Women , from the Bible Milly had brought to the homestead. He tells them that they should take whatever action is necessary to get their women. Aided by Adam, the brothers kidnap the six girls, then cause an avalanche in Echo Pass so the townspeople can't pursue them. The Pontipee homestead is cut off from the town until the spring thaw opens Echo Pass again.

The brothers forgot to bring the parson along to perform the marriages. Milly is furious with Adam and his brothers for kidnapping the women, and she kicks both Adam and his brothers out of their house and sends them to the barn to "eat and sleep with the rest of the livestock," while the women stay in the house with her.

Adam, angered by Milly's action, leaves for the trapping cabin farther up the mountain to spend the winter by himself. Gideon tells Milly and begs her to tell Adam not to leave, but Milly refuses, saying: Winter slowly passes, and the women vent their frustrations by pulling pranks on the brothers.

After Milly announces that she's going to have a baby, the women and the brothers come together as a family. Milly gives birth to a daughter, in the spring. The daughter is named as Hanna as a continuum to the names in alphabetical order, the last one being Gideon. Gideon rides to the cabin to inform Adam of his daughter's arrival and asks him to come home.

Adam refuses, saying that he had said he would return home when the pass was open. Adam does return home, when Echo Pass comes open, to reconcile with Milly and meet his new daughter. As a newly responsible father, he has become aware of how worried the townspeople would be about what has happened to the six abducted girls. Adam admits that he would have hung his daughter's kidnapper s on the nearest tree; Milly forgives him for his past behavior. Adam tells his brothers they need to return the women to their families; the brothers are unwilling, believing their parents won't let them marry their daughters, and the other six women refuse to return to their families, lest their parents to force them to return to their former suitors; they ran away to hide.

When Milly discovers that they are not in the house, Adam tells the brothers to find them and bring them back. The townspeople arrive, intent on hanging the Pontipee brothers for the kidnappings. The fathers, who find the brothers trying to force the women to return to town, misunderstand their efforts as assautive, and charge to the girls' rescue. Alice's father, Reverend Elcott Ian Wolfe -- the minister the brothers had forgotten to grab when they took the girls—hears baby Hannah cry in the distance, and worries that the baby might belong to one of the kidnapped girls.

Elcott asks the girls whose baby he heard, and to not be afraid to tell. They each answer "Mine. The film ends with the brothers kissing their respective brides in the living room of the Pontipee cabin. To perform the dance numbers and action sequences, choreographer Michael Kidd wanted dancers to portray all six of Adam Pontipee's brothers.

Kidd said that he "had to find a way to have these backwoods men dance without looking ridiculous. And it could only have been done by superbly trained dancers. All four balanced on a beam together during their barn-raising dance. The wood-chopping scene in Lonesome Polecat was filmed in a single take. Choreographer Michael Kidd originally turned down the film, recalling in We'd be laughed out of the house. Lyricist Johnny Mercer said that the musical numbers were written at Kidd's behest, as an example "of how a songwriter sometimes has to take his cue from his collaborators.

In his introduction to a showing on Turner Classic Movies on January 17, , host Robert Osborne , as well as Jane Powell in her autobiography, The Girl Next Door, both say MGM was much less interested in Seven Brides than it was in Brigadoon which was also filming at the time, even cutting its budget and transferring the money to the Lerner and Loewe vehicle. Most of the movie was shot on the MGM sound stages. It was here that the escape following the brothers' kidnapping their future brides and the avalanche that closed the pass was filmed.

On the DVD commentary, Stanley Donen states that the film was originally shot in two versions, one in CinemaScope and another in normal ratio, because MGM was concerned that not all theaters had the capability to screen it. Despite the fact that it cost more than the widescreen version to make, he says, the other version was never used. However both versions are available on the DVD release.