My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen

108 mins | Comedy, Music | Sept. 22, 1955

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.

My Sister Eileen

108 mins | Comedy, Music | Sept. 22, 1955

My Sister Eileen
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title My Sister Eileen
Directors Richard Quine
Writers Ruth McKenney, Jerome Chodorov, Richard Quine, Joseph Fields, Blake Edwards

Cast

Janet Leigh

as Eileen Sherwood

Jack Lemmon

as Bob Baker

Betty Garrett

as Ruth Sherwood

Bob Fosse

as Frank Lippincott

Kurt Kasznar

as 'Papa' Appopolous

Dick York

as Ted Loomis

Lucy Marlow

as Helen

Barbara Brown

as Helen's Mother

Tommy Rall

as Chick Clark

Queenie Smith

as Alice