Athena (1954) is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Norma Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not a great success on its release, this motion picture has an unusual and somewhat campy appeal.
The film tells the story of a passionate girl with an extended family who share her unconventional beliefs. She falls in love with an old-fashioned man who is engaged to an...
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Athena (1954) is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Norma Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not a great success on its release, this motion picture has an unusual and somewhat campy appeal.
The film tells the story of a passionate girl with an extended family who share her unconventional beliefs. She falls in love with an old-fashioned man who is engaged to another woman!
The film includes many joyful songs with clever choreography.
The writers appear to have had fun inventing characters whose beliefs are an odd mixture of assertiveness, natural health, numerology, mythology, the supernatural, and bodybuilding for men.
The film stars Jane Powell as the energetic and eccentric "Athena Mulvain", who as the name suggests is not Greek, but comes from a family who appears to have been zanily inspired by classical antiquity. The entire family are anti-smoking, vegetarian, teetotallers, and into astrology...
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