The Dolly Sisters (1945)
- Starring:
- Betty Grable, John Payne, (more)
- Director(s):
- Irving Cummings
- Category:
- Romance
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny foreigner" S.Z. Sakall, who manages their career from childhood. Passing an important audition for Oscar Hammerstein, the Dolly girls become international stage headliners, but in so doing they find that their private life is strained. Jennie in particular is perplexed by the dilemma of devoting herself to a career while still finding time to romance handsome composer John Payne. The Dolly girls are separated permanently when Rosie is fatally injured in an auto accident, but Jennie finds lasting happiness with her composer. Despite the pre-World War I ambience of the film, both Grable and Haver show off a lot more skin than would have been permissible in earlier times. But Dolly Sisters producer George Jessel knew what he was doing, and the Technicolor film was a major hit in 1945. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 114 mins
Complete Cast:
- Betty Grable - Jenny Dolly
- June Haver - Rosie Dolly
- Reginald Gardiner - Duke of Breck
- Gene Sheldon - Winnup (seal trainer)
- Trudy Marshall - Lenore Baldwin
- Evan Thomas - Jenny as a child
- Robert Middlemass - Oscar Hammerstein
- Lester Allen - Morrie Keno
- Harry Seymour - Pianist
- Claire Richards - Operator
- Frank Ferguson - Reporter
- Betty Farrington - Mrs. Al Smith
- Theresa Harris - Ellabelle
- Herbert Ashley - Fields
- Mae Marsh - Flower Lady
- John Farrell MacDonald - Doorman
- Walter Soderling - Conductor on Train
- George Davis - French juggler
- John Payne - Harry Fox
- S.Z. Sakall - Uncle Latsie
- Frank Latimore - Irving Netcher
- Sig Rumann - Tsimmis
- Collette Lyons - Flo Daly
- Donna Jo Gribble - Rosie as a child
- Paul Hurst - Dowling
- Frank Orth - Stage Manager
- George O'Hara - Frank Tinny
- Crauford Kent - Man
- André Charlot - Monsieur Philippe
- Virginia Brissac - Nun
- J.C. Fowler - Al Smith
- William Nye - Bartender
- Elsa Janssen - Kathi
- Sam Garrett - Will Rogers
- Albert Petit - Croupier
- Eugene Borden - Chauffeur
- Director(s):
- Irving Cummings
- Writer(s):
- John Larkin, John Francis Larkin, Marian Spitzer
- Producer(s):
- George Jessel
- Categories:
- Romance
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