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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Don Weis released in USA on 14 august 1953 with Debbie Reynolds
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
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Add to a movie listThe Affairs of Dobie Gillis (also called Casanova Junior) is a 1953 comedy musical film. The film is based on the same writings by Max Shulman as the subsequent television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Bobby Van played Gillis in this musical version, co-starring with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse.
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At Grainbelt University, a Midwestern university, freshman Dobie Gillis (Bobby Van) and his pal Charlie Trask (Bob Fosse) court cute coeds Pansy Hammer (Debbie Reynolds) and Lorna Ellingboe (Barbara Ruick). Pansy's wealthy father George (Hanley Stafford) can't stand Dobie and does everything in his power to keep them apart. Along the way, Dobie and Pansy manage to blow up the chemistry lab, while Dobie's officious English professor Pomfritt (Hans Conried) is misled to believe that the feckless Gillis is a literary genius.Actors
Debbie Reynolds
(Pansy Hammer)
Bobby Van
(Dobie Gillis)
Barbara Ruick
(Lorna Ellingboe)
Bob Fosse
(Charlie Trask)
Lurene Tuttle
(Mrs. Eleanor Hammer)
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