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THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. This massive song-and-dancer based on Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical owes nearly all its buoyancy to a raucous, winning, free-style performance by Debbie Reynolds as the rich mountain gal who yearns to make a splash in Denver society.
The Unsaleable Molly Brown is a massive song-and-dancer derived from Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical of 1-960. Defying the laws of levity, it follows an ebullient, money-grubbing Irish lass who marries a miner and gets rich so she can sashay in Denver'...
Plot, though vaguely based on reality, is only one of Molly's handicaps. The sound track seems to amplify every commonplace tune into a fugue for trip hammers. The red plush trappings of old Colorado, as Hollywood sees them, produce instant antipathy. And Broadway Leading Man Harve Presnell repeats...
But despite this freight of handicaps, Molly does not go under-mainly because of Debbie Reynolds. Having browbeaten MGM's executives into letting her play the part-a plum better suited, they thought, to Shirley MacLaine-Debbie Mollyfies the audience with all the raucous charm and irrepressible high spirits...
TEXACO STAR PARADE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The second of Meredith Willson's musical variety specials, this one features Debbie Reynolds introducing highlights from her forthcoming film version of Willson's The Unsinkable Molly Brown.