Big Screen Classics at The Lafayette Theater presents "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" starring Jane Powell & Howard Kreel on Saturday November 21st at 11:30am. 

Adam Pontipee the eldest of seven brothers, comes into a small mountain town after the winter to get some corn, farming equipment and a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness.

Doors open at 11:00am and the film begins at 11:30am.  Tickets are $7.00.  Ramapo Senior Citizens are free.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Trivia:

For the brides costumes, the designer went to the Salvation Army, found old quilts and turned them into dresses.

Because there was no way of distinguishing between them and the Town Suitors, MGM decided to make all the Pontipee Brothers red-headed.

The censors weren't too happy about the line in the song "Lonesome Polecat" where the brothers lament "A man can't sleep when he sleeps with sheep". By not showing any sheep in the same shot as the brothers, the film-makers were able to get away with it.

Stanley Donen was producer Jack Cummings' first choice for director from the outset, thanks to his success with "On the Town" and "Singin' in the Rain".

MGM considered this a B movie - they had higher aspirations for the more expensive "Brigadoon". For this reason, they slashed the budget on "Seven Brothers", forcing Stanley Donen to use painted backdrops instead of location filming.

Played at the Radio City Music Hall in New York in a slot that was originally intended for "Brigadoon".