New Faces

Feb 19, 1954

1h 38m

★ 5.5

A front row seat for the FIRST musical revue in CinemaScope with STEREOPHONIC SOUND.

Overview

New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.

Genres

Music

Comedy

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Edward L. Alperson Productions

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Cast

Eartha Kitt

Ronny Graham

Robert Clary

Alice Ghostley

June Carroll

Virginia de Luce Clayborn

Virginia Wilson

Paul Lynde

Bill Mullikin

Rosemary O'Reilly

Allen Conroy

Jimmy Russell

George Smiley

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