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Musical Monday: Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Those Redheads from Seattle (1953) – Musical #826

Studio:
Paramount Pictures

Director:
Lewis R. Foster

Starring:
Rhonda Fleming, Agnes Moorehead, Teresa Brewer, The Bell Sisters, Gene Barry, Guy Mitchell, Jean Parker, Roscoe Ates, John Kellogg, Frank Wilcox, Walter Reed

Plot:
Vance Edmonds (Wilcox) is a newspaper man in Yukon Territory, trying to clean up a crooked town with his newspaper articles. Not knowing his life is being threatened, his family in Seattle, decides that it’s time to go be with their father including his wife, Mrs. Edmonds (Moorehead) and four daughters, Kathie (Fleming), Pat (Brewer), and Connie and Neill (the Bell Sisters). When they arrive in the Yukon, the Edmond family finds that things are not what they expected and have to find ways to support themselves amongst encounters with saloon owners (Barry) and saloon women.

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Musical Monday: The Singing Nun (1966)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

singing nunThis week’s musical:
The Singing Nun (1966) – Musical #47

Studio:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Director:
Henry Koster

Starring:
Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalbán, Greer Garson, Agnes Moorehead, Juanita Moore, Katharine Ross, Chad Everett, Tom Drake, Ricky Cordell, Michael Pate, Charles Robinson, Monique Montaigne, Joyce Vanderveen, Anne Wakefield, Pam Peterson, Marina Koshetz, Nancy Walters, Violet Rensing, Inez Pedroza, Jon Lormer (uncredited), Dorothy Patrick (uncredited)
Themselves: Ed Sullivan

Plot:
A nun, Sister Ann (Reynolds), loves music and enjoys singing. Father Clementi (Montalban) thinks Sister Ann should make a record, and she writes a song which becomes a hit. The record sells well and she even appears on the Ed Sullivan Show. As she rises to fame, Sister Ann realizes that the popularity may conflict with the vows she took. The film is a fictionalized biographical musical on the life and career of Jeannine Deckers (who served in the church as Sister Luc Gabriel and known professional as Soeur Sourire), a nun who rose to fame with her hit “Dominque.”

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