Rating: NR
Genre:
Musical
Release Date: 04/26/2005
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The Broadway musical
Pajama Game was based on
Seven and a Half Cents. a comic novel about labor relations written by
Richard Bissell.
Doris Day stars as an employee at a pajama factory who becomes the spokesperson for her fellow workers when management refuses to give them a 7 1/2 cent raise. Complicating matters is the fact that Management is represented by handsome
John Raitt, who happens to be in love with
Day. A subplot involves
Day's freewheeling co-worker
Carol Haney and her insanely jealous boyfriend, factory-manager
Eddie Foy Jr. Many of the cast members from the original Broadway production (
Raitt,
Haney,
Foy,
Reta Shaw,
Peter Gennaro etc.) are retained for the film version, as are most of the
Richard Adler/
Jerry Ross songs: highlights include
"Hey There",
"Steam Heat",
"Hernando's Hideaway",
"There Once Was a Man". and the title song. The choreography is in the capable hands (and feet) of
Bob Fosse.
Pajama Game performed so well at the box-office that
Warners immediately went to work on the filmization of the second (and last)
Adler/
Ross Broadway collaboration,
Damn Yankees.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A Very Energetic Romantic Musical Comedy.
Broadway producer, George Abbott teams-up with director, Stanley Donen in bringing one of Broadway's greatest musical-comedies to the silver screen. It was based on a comical novel called 7 1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell. Doris Day steps in the role originated by Janis Paige in the original Broadway production, John Raitt, Eddie Foy, Jr., Carol Haney, Barbara Nichols, and Reta Shaw reprise their original stage roles in the movie. Richard Adler and Jerry Ross of Damn Yankees fame, supply a feature of unforgettable songs including Hey There, Steam Heat, I'm Not at All in Love, Hernando's Hideaway, I Know a Man, and Once-a-Year Day. Brilliant choreography by Bob Fosse.
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