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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Loew_Jr." title="Arthur Loew Jr.">Arthur M. Loew Jr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Debbie_Reynolds" title="Debbie Reynolds">Debbie Reynolds</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Van" title="Bobby Van">Bobby Van</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Ruick" title="Barbara Ruick">Barbara Ruick</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bob_Fosse" title="Bob Fosse">Bob Fosse</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Hanley_Stafford" title="Hanley Stafford">Hanley Stafford</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Hans_Conried" title="Hans Conried">Hans Conried</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_C._Mellor" title="William C. Mellor">William C. Mellor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Conrad_A._Nervig" title="Conrad A. Nervig">Conrad A. Nervig</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><b>Musical Direction/Supervision</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Alexander" title="Jeff Alexander">Jeff Alexander</a><br /><b>Choreography</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Alex_Romero_(choreographer)" title="Alex Romero (choreographer)">Alex Romero</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Loews_Cineplex_Entertainment" title="Loews Cineplex Entertainment">Loew's Inc.</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>14 August 1953<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1953-08-14</span>)</span> (US)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">72 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$577,000<sup id="cite_ref-Mannix_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mannix-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barbara_Ruick,_Bob_Fosse,_Debbie_Reynolds_and_Bobby_Van_in_The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis_trailer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Barbara_Ruick%2C_Bob_Fosse%2C_Debbie_Reynolds_and_Bobby_Van_in_The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis_trailer.jpg/220px-Barbara_Ruick%2C_Bob_Fosse%2C_Debbie_Reynolds_and_Bobby_Van_in_The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis_trailer.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Barbara_Ruick%2C_Bob_Fosse%2C_Debbie_Reynolds_and_Bobby_Van_in_The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis_trailer.jpg/330px-Barbara_Ruick%2C_Bob_Fosse%2C_Debbie_Reynolds_and_Bobby_Van_in_The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis_trailer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Barbara_Ruick%2C_Bob_Fosse%2C_Debbie_Reynolds_and_Bobby_Van_in_The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis_trailer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="346" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">L-R: <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Ruick" title="Barbara Ruick">Barbara Ruick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Fosse" title="Bob Fosse">Bob Fosse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Debbie_Reynolds" title="Debbie Reynolds">Debbie Reynolds</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Van" title="Bobby Van">Bobby Van</a></div></figcaption></figure> <p><i><b>The Affairs of Dobie Gillis</b></i> is a 1953 American <a href="/wiki/Comedy_film" title="Comedy film">comedy</a> <a href="/wiki/Musical_film" title="Musical film">musical film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Don_Weis" title="Don Weis">Don Weis</a>. The film is based on the short stories by <a href="/wiki/Max_Shulman" title="Max Shulman">Max Shulman</a> collected as <i>The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis</i> (also the title of the <a href="/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis" title="The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis">later TV series</a>). <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Van" title="Bobby Van">Bobby Van</a> played Gillis in this musical version, co-starring with <a href="/wiki/Debbie_Reynolds" title="Debbie Reynolds">Debbie Reynolds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Fosse" title="Bob Fosse">Bob Fosse</a>. </p><p>The movie was filmed in black and white, <a href="/wiki/MGM" class="mw-redirect" title="MGM">MGM</a>'s first non-color musical film in years.<sup id="cite_ref-Winkler_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winkler-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was Fosse's technical screen debut, as it was his second film but the first to be released.<sup id="cite_ref-Gottfried_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gottfried-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At Grainbelt University, a Midwestern university, freshmen Dobie Gillis (<a href="/wiki/Bobby_Van" title="Bobby Van">Bobby Van</a>) and Charlie Trask (<a href="/wiki/Bob_Fosse" title="Bob Fosse">Bob Fosse</a>) court students Pansy Hammer (<a href="/wiki/Debbie_Reynolds" title="Debbie Reynolds">Debbie Reynolds</a>) and Lorna Ellingboe (<a href="/wiki/Barbara_Ruick" title="Barbara Ruick">Barbara Ruick</a>). They attend the same courses because Lorna is pursuing Dobie, who is pursuing Pansy, and Charlie is pursuing Lorna. Pansy is studious, and is encouraged by her father George (<a href="/wiki/Hanley_Stafford" title="Hanley Stafford">Hanley Stafford</a>) to "learn learn learn" and "work work work," while Dobie, Charlie and Lorna only want to have fun. </p><p>Pansy's father can't stand Dobie and does everything in his power to keep them apart. Dobie and Pansy manage to blow up the chemistry lab, but Dobie is spared expulsion because the officious English professor Pomfritt (<a href="/wiki/Hans_Conried" title="Hans Conried">Hans Conried</a>) is misled to believe that the feckless Gillis is a literary genius. </p><p>Pansy is sent to a school in New York after the chemistry lab incident. With the help of Charlie and Lorna, Dobie figures out a way of getting Pansy back to Grainbelt. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Van" title="Bobby Van">Bobby Van</a> as Dobie Gillis, a freshman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debbie_Reynolds" title="Debbie Reynolds">Debbie Reynolds</a> as Pansy Hammer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Fosse" title="Bob Fosse">Bob Fosse</a> as Charlie Trask, a freshman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Ruick" title="Barbara Ruick">Barbara Ruick</a> as Lorna</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Conried" title="Hans Conried">Hans Conried</a> as Prof. Pomfritt</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanley_Stafford" title="Hanley Stafford">Hanley Stafford</a> as George Hammer, Pansy's father</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lurene_Tuttle" title="Lurene Tuttle">Lurene Tuttle</a> as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lane_(actor,_born_1905)" title="Charles Lane (actor, born 1905)">Charles Lane</a> as Chemistry Professor Obispo</li> <li>Archer MacDonald as Harry Dorcas</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Freeman" title="Kathleen Freeman">Kathleen Freeman</a> as 'Happy Stella' Kowalski</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Almira_Sessions" title="Almira Sessions">Almira Sessions</a> as Aunt Naomi</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Halton" title="Charles Halton">Charles Halton</a> as Dean (Granbelt University)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Carleton_Carpenter" title="Carleton Carpenter">Carleton Carpenter</a> was tentatively cast in the film, along with Reynolds, Van and Ruick, after MGM bought Shulman's stories. The original plan was to turn the film into a series, along the lines of the <a href="/wiki/Andy_Hardy" title="Andy Hardy">Andy Hardy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dr._Kildare" title="Dr. Kildare">Dr. Kildare</a> movie franchise, if the film was successful.<sup id="cite_ref-Hopper_on_casting_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hopper_on_casting-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film was Bob Fosse's second feature shoot, but it was his debut release before <i><a href="/wiki/Give_a_Girl_a_Break" title="Give a Girl a Break">Give a Girl a Break</a></i>, which was filmed first.<i><sup id="cite_ref-Winkler_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winkler-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i> </p><p>According to MGM records the film earned $423,000 in the US and Canada and $154,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $131,000.<sup id="cite_ref-Mannix_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mannix-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reaction">Critical reaction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Critical reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the time of release, a <i><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Inquirer" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Inquirer">Philadelphia Inquirer</a></i> reviewer called the film "agreeable" and cited Van's "rubber-legged grace, reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bolger" title="Ray Bolger">Ray Bolger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Inquirer_review_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inquirer_review-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Los_Angeles_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Los Angeles Times">The Los Angeles Times</a></i> called it a "lightweight, lightheaded comedy," and said the Max Shulman screenplay "is, shall we say, charitably, innocuous,"<sup id="cite_ref-LA_Times_review_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LA_Times_review-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette" title="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a></i> called the film "a small musical" that was "hung on the weakest imaginable plot," and said that it was "an insignificant piece of fluff" that was "hardly up to the standards of its principals, all of whom seem entirely too attractive and talented to be bothering with such nonsense." But the review credited the actors and director with nevertheless pulling off "a presentable entertainment." The film was playing Pittsburgh as a <a href="/wiki/Double_feature" title="Double feature">double feature</a> with <i><a href="/wiki/Tarzan_and_the_She-Devil" title="Tarzan and the She-Devil">Tarzan and the She-Devil</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-Post_Gazette_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Post_Gazette-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>More recently, an <a href="/wiki/Allmovie" class="mw-redirect" title="Allmovie">Allmovie</a> review criticized the film's "desperate, artificial perkiness -- the kind of Hollywood-derived energy that annoys by its phoniness." The review goes on to say "Ultimately, though, the trite (and often unbelievable) situations, lame jokes, and banal dialogue overwhelm the good will that the musical numbers engender. Extremely undemanding audiences, or those with a very strong nostalgic bent for the good old days, may enjoy <i>The Affairs of Dobie Gillis</i>, but most are advised to give it a pass."<sup id="cite_ref-Allmovie_review_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allmovie_review-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bob Fosse's biographers have dismissed the film, his movie acting debut, as "a minor-league comedy with a few old songs thrown in"<sup id="cite_ref-Winkler_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winkler-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as "a movie destined to achieve a Zenlike oblivion."<sup id="cite_ref-Gottfried_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gottfried-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the "You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right" number, choreographed by <a href="/wiki/Alex_Romero_(choreographer)" title="Alex Romero (choreographer)">Alex Romero</a>, Fosse displays the explosive style for which he later became known. In his book <i>Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical</i>, author Kevin Winkler observes that while Bobby Van tap dances as well as Fosse in that number, Van "dances only with his feet while Fosse dances with his whole body."<sup id="cite_ref-Winkler_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winkler-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fosse was disillusioned by his experience making <i>Dobie Gillis</i> and <i>Give a Girl a Break</i>, which was filmed earlier but released after <i>Dobie Gillis</i>. Noting that his screen time was far less in <i>Dobie</i> than in the other film, Fosse later remarked, "My parts were getting smaller. I knew what that meant."<sup id="cite_ref-Winkler_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winkler-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Songs">Songs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Songs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>"You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right"</b> <ul><li>Written by <a href="/wiki/Al_Rinker" title="Al Rinker">Al Rinker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Huddleston" title="Floyd Huddleston">Floyd Huddleston</a></li> <li>Performed by Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van</li></ul></li> <li><b>"I'm Thru with Love"</b> <ul><li>Music by <a href="/wiki/Matty_Malneck" title="Matty Malneck">Matty Malneck</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fud_Livingston" title="Fud Livingston">Fud Livingston</a></li> <li>Lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Gus_Kahn" title="Gus Kahn">Gus Kahn</a></li> <li>Performed by Bobby Van</li></ul></li> <li><b>"<a href="/wiki/All_I_Do_Is_Dream_of_You" title="All I Do Is Dream of You">All I Do Is Dream of You</a>"</b> <ul><li>Music by <a href="/wiki/Nacio_Herb_Brown" title="Nacio Herb Brown">Nacio Herb Brown</a></li> <li>Lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Freed" title="Arthur Freed">Arthur Freed</a></li> <li>Performed by Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van</li> <li>Played during the opening credits and often throughout the picture</li></ul></li> <li><b>"<a href="/wiki/Believe_Me,_If_All_Those_Endearing_Young_Charms" title="Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms">Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms</a>"</b> <ul><li>Traditional Irish folk song, with lyrics by Thomas Moore</li> <li>Performed by Debbie Reynolds and Barbara Ruick</li></ul></li> <li><b>"<a href="/wiki/Red_River_Valley_(song)" title="Red River Valley (song)">Red River Valley (song)</a>"</b> <ul><li>Traditional</li> <li>Played by the band during the square dance</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Affairs_of_Dobie_Gillis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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