The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 71% of users liked it
    (6,613 ratings)

Meredith Willson's second Broadway hit (the first and biggest was The Music Man) proved a lucrative vehicle for the equally unsinkable Debbie Reynolds. Based on a true story, the film casts Debbie as hoydenish Molly Brown, who wangles her way into Denver High Society when she marries "overnight… More

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Unrated, 2 hr. 8 min.
Directed By
Charles Walters
Written By
Helen Deutsch
Genres
Musical & Performing Arts, Classics
In Theaters
Jul 11, 1964 Wide
On DVD
Sep 19, 2000
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Debbie Reynolds received her only Oscar nomination for playing the title role of this artistically mediocre but commercially popular musical comedy about the rags to riches of the Denver heroine who was also a passenger on the Titanic.

  • Daniel Eagan, Film Journal International

    Razzle-dazzle biopic kept afloat by a determined Reynolds.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    There's a reason why Charles Walters' musicals are less remembered than Stanley Donen's.

  • Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum

    The movie sinks like the Titanic.

  • James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

    "Beware: The high spirits are contagious"

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  • jay n


    debbie is brash and gives her all

  • Mr. C


    I saw this during the whole "Titanic" craze on TV one night.Pretty funny movie.

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