"Be sure the story is something you cannot resist", Richard Roders once advised Meredith Willson. After considering 100 projects for a successor to The Music Man, Willson found one that was irresistible. And unsinkable.
Debbie Reynolds plays the title role, inviting all to Belly Up to he Bar, Boys for the whoop-and-holler film of Willsons's 1960 Broadway hit. Reynolds won a 1964 Best Acress Oscar nomination as the backwoods heroine who survives the Titanic and the snobbery of Denver society. Screen-debuting Harve Presnell reprises his stsage role of Johnny, who has a heartful-and-a-half of love for Molly. Johnny wasn't alone. Astrounatus Gus Grissom and John Young so admired the movie they named their Gemini3 spacecraft Molly Brown.