My Sister Eileen

1955

Directed by Richard Quine, with a screenplay by Quine and Blake Edwards, it’s the story of a pair of sisters who relocate to New York City.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times observed, “Happily let it be stated that Miss Garrett and Miss Leigh are okay . . . But it is Jack Lemmon . . . who generates the most amusement and upholds the tarnished dignity of males. Mr. Lemmon is a charming comedy actor, getting more so in each successive film. And his off-hand maneuvering around Miss Garrett to shatter her resistance is grand. When the two, in a scene of mad seduction, sing “It’s Bigger Than You and Me,” the breadth of the spoof is established and the high point of the comedy is reached.”