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Give a Girl a Break is a 1953 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Debbie Reynolds and the dance team of Marge and Gower Champion. A young Bob Fosse has a featured role.
Give a Girl a Break: Directed by Stanley Donen. With Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Helen Wood. Broadway choreographer Ted Sturgis auditions dancers for a new musical after the lead walks out, with talent ranging from a ballerina to an untrained novice and his former partner, a retired star.
Jul 18, 2014 · The producers of the show, Ted Sturgis, Leo Belney and Bob Dowdy begin to search a replacement. After a quick audition, each favors someone else: Madelyn Corlane, Joanna Moss, Suzie Doolittle. The...
Newcomers Joanna Moss (Helen Wood) and Suzy Doolitle (Debbie Reynolds) do well at open auditions, and Madelyn Corlane (Marge Champion), Ted's ex and a former starlet herself, is also in contention.
- Musical, Comedy
Give A Girl A Break (1954) -- (Movie Clip) It Happens Every Time A specialty number choreographed by the star, Gower Champion (as "Ted") and wife Marge (as "Madelyn"), to It Happens Every Time by Burton Lane and Ira Gershwin, in MGM's Give A Girl A Break, 1954.
Janet Hallson is the star of Felix Jordan's musical revue "Give a Girl a Break", which is in rehearsals. With only weeks until the opening, Janet quits the show over a disagreement with the dance director, Ted Sturgis, who refuses to treat her like the prima donna she believes she is.
Give a Girl a Break. Released on January 1, 1954 by MGM. Music by Burton Lane. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Screenplay by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, based on a story by Vera Caspary. Directed by Stanley Donen.
