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Released
1955 · FILM

My Sister Eileen

That Joyous New Musical !

Directed by
Runtime
108 min
ComedyMusicalRomance

Synopsis

Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Charles NelsonShot by Charles Lawton Jr

Box Office

1955 · Box office

Grossed $1.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$1.8M

Worldwide gross$1.8M

Also known as

  • Meine Schwester Ellende
  • Mi hermana Elenaes
  • Ma sœur est du tonnerrefr
  • Mia sorella Evelinait

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