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Les Girls (1957)

Les Girls poster
Directed by
George Cukor
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 54m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 61 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A musical comedy about a woman who writes a memoir about her time as a performer in a touring show. The story gets complicated when her former castmates dispute her version of events.

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What happens

Les Girls (also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls) is a 1957 American CinemaScope musical comedy film directed by George Cukor and produced by Sol C. Siegel, with Saul Chaplin as associate producer. The screenplay is by John Patrick and the story is by Vera Caspary. The music and lyrics are by Cole Porter. The film stars Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg, with Jacques Bergerac, Leslie Phillips, Henry Daniell, and Patrick Macnee in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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