SnoopyStyle A baby in a cradle floats down the roaring Colorado River. She is found and raised to be the unsinkable Molly Brown (Debbie Reynolds). She's an illiterate tomboy in the rural mountains and pa is concerned about getting her married. She insists on going to Denver to find herself a rich husband. Money is paramount to her. She marries miner Johnny Brown who strikes it rich. She climbs in popularity but the couple separates. She decides to return home to Johnny taking the Titanic but even there, she refuses to sink.This is big, colorful, and really big. Debbie Reynolds is perfect in portraying the big personality. She is all gumption and enthusiasm. As for the Titanic, it's missing her claim to fame and I'm not sure why. Maybe, dealing with dying people is not quite the musical way. I wouldn't call any of the music catchy. It's big Broadway but none of it is memorable. The story can be extended but Debbie Reynolds always holds the screen without fail. Making her money obsessed is not the most appealing way to play her. My biggest complement is that Debbie Reynolds is undeniably Molly Brown.

vpcohb You must watch some movies twice to understand all that is present in a movie. The first time was good but not knowing the songs or the meaning behind the music made it seem long. BUT the second and later viewings fills in all that you miss on the first time. Please see twice or more and feel the emotions of this one.This is a very good movie for a musical, the acting and love story is also very good. Must watch till the end. By the way you would be surprised where some of these actors show up in later years.This is a semi true story of Molly Brown a real person of some fame. Hollywood has added music and a story to match the music. A young woman is bored with her poor rural life and dreams of making it rich in a big city. We follow her steps on the way to making all come true with love, laughs and music. There is a true meaning in this movie, do not watch for it, the point of the movie shows up at the end.

mark.waltz On "Will and Grace", Debbie Reynolds' Bobbi Adler starred in a community theater production of "The Music Person" as "Professor Carol Hill". Flashback some 30 years to the mid 1960's when Reynolds got the chance to play another leading role in a Meredith Willson show, and a real-life woman of legend. It has been 100 years since the Titanic sank and the real life Molly Brown assisted panicky passengers on the lifeboats. While the stories vary to her involvement, the legend has not died. The 1960 Broadway show was a critically mixed musical that had a respectful run. After "The Music Man" was a smash movie, MGM set their sights on "Molly Brown", and cast their peppiest star of the 1950's in the role for which she is now most famous for. The result: An Oscar Nominated performance that many viewers claim the prize should have been hers.Baby Molly is first seen floating down the Colorado River, having survived a flood, and when next seen, she is a rambunctious teenager boasting "I Ain't Down Yet!" to her bullying cousins who tease her about her desire to leave their mountain home for the beautiful people of Denver. Leaving her loving grandfather (Ed Begley Sr.), Reynolds briefly works in a saloon, but her efforts to get to Denver are delayed when she falls in love with and marries Johnny Brown (Harve Presnell), a miner searching for gold. When they strike it rich, Molly and Johnny end up in Denver, but find that society, lead by the snooty Mrs. McGraw (stage veteran Audrey Christie) isn't going to cater to riffraff like her, no matter how many millions they are worth. So to show the stuffy society up, they go off to Europe and bag themselves a royal flush, come back, throw an outrageous party, then fight, separate, and long for each other in spite of their problems. It is when Molly returns home that she finds herself aboard the Titanic, grabbing herself a piece of history and proving herself truly unsinkable.This is a movie musical that works better on screen than on stage with its colorful Colorado mountain setting. I saw Reynolds and Presnell in a touring production of the show in 1988 and noticed a difference between the two, mostly based upon a book that while entertaining needed much tweaking. Reynolds and Presnell are supported by a wonderful supporting cast which also includes Hermoine Baddley as Mrs. McGraw's brassy mother who puts her daughter down a peg or two, and the delightfully imperious Martita Hunt ("Great Expectation's" Miss Haversham) as the Duchess who also adds her two cents to Mrs. McGraw for previously snubbing Molly. "Do you play, Mrs. McGraw?", she asks her after Molly promises to entertain them on the piano, obviously having set this up. "No, sorry." "Pity", she replies dryly as if dismissing a naughty servant.But this is Reynolds' show, and I personally feel that she deserved the Oscar this year. No other performer (maybe Judy Garland) could make you laugh and cry, yet sing, dance, be funny and serious, like Debbie Reynolds. She is outrageous in the dancing sequences, whether bellying up to the bar, or doing the high kicks of "He's My Friend", a wonderful new production added for the movie. Fortunately, she got to do this as well in the touring production, as well as sing the songs cut from the movie. ("My Own Brass Bed" is particularly memorable, but didn't make it into the film.) Presnell is a handsome leading man with a wonderful singing voice, but when I saw this on the big screen, I found his tendency to cross his eyes a bit distracting. This probably cut his leading man career down, but as a character actor (most memorably the father-in-law in "Fargo") he would find roles more suitable. Reynolds and Presnell have a wonderful duet, "I'll Never Say No", and Presnell has several fine solos as well, showing off his manly physique while building a home for Molly.Rumors have had "Molly Brown" as a possible contender for a Broadway revival with a tweaked book. I hope this is true, because Willson's songs, the magnificent choreography and the tale of a feisty heroine are the stuff that legends are made of.

MartinHafer Reynolds' character is too obnoxious "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" is a generally enjoyable film, though you need to understand that like most Hollywood films of yesterday, great liberties were taken with the facts. In other words, if you want a true account of the life of Molly Brown, you might want to look elsewhere.The film begins with Molly as a child. She is washed away by a flood, but being unsinkable, she manages to pull herself to safety. The story is set in Colorado, where she grew up a rough and tumble tom-boy. However, despite being VERY unladylike, she had a dream of one day living in a fine house, with a brass bed, a warm fireplace and all the niceties money can buy. When Mr. Brown falls for her, the rather mercenary Molly insists she won't marry any man who can't provide her with all these things....and he does. Soon (and only in a Hollywood film can it be THIS soon), Mr. Brown is very, very, very rich and his wife has many, many things....but she is still unhappy because she doesn't fit in with society. So, she sets off very determined to go off to Europe to refine herself and make friends with royalty. Well, she does....but somehow in the process she ends up losing what is really important--though in real life, no such realization and reconciliation ever actually occurred.The film is VERY bouncy and, at times, quite fun. Debbie Reynolds throws herself into the role and it's one of her best. As for poor Mr. Brown, Harve Presnell was GREAT. He really, really sang beautifully and it's sad he never really became a household name. And, the film is pretty good. However, there was one weakness that prevented the movie from being any better--the leading character was unbelievably selfish and hard to like--especially as the film progressed. Maybe this was just me--but that detracted a bit from the overall production. Still, it's worth seeing despite this.