---
title: 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Stanley Donen'
released: '1954-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 104
genres:
  - 'Romance'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/seven-brides-for-seven-brothers-1954'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047472/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

1954 · 104 min · Romance, Music · United States


## Synopsis

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 American musical film, directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and choreography by Michael Kidd. The screenplay, by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley, is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the ancient Roman legend of the Rape of the Sabine women. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which is set in Oregon in 1850, is famous for Kidd's unusual choreography, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and barn raising. Film critic Stephanie Zacharek has called the barn-raising sequence in Seven Brides "one of the most rousing dance numbers ever put on screen." The film was photographed in Ansco Color in the CinemaScope format.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Stanley Donen](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-donen)
- **Screenplay:** [Frances Goodrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-goodrich), [Dorothy Kingsley](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-kingsley), [Albert Hackett](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-hackett)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Gene de Paul](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-de-paul)
- **Producer:** [Jack Cummings](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-cummings)
- **Director of Photography:** [George J. Folsey](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-j-folsey)
- **Editor:** [Ralph E. Winters](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-e-winters)

## Cast

- [Ruta Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruta-lee)
- [Jeff Richards](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeff-richards)
- [Howard Keel](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-keel)
- [Sheb Wooley](https://cinepixo.com/people/sheb-wooley)
- [Matt Mattox](https://cinepixo.com/people/matt-mattox)
- [Virginia Gibson](https://cinepixo.com/people/virginia-gibson)
- [Ian Wolfe](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-wolfe)
- [Larry J. Blake](https://cinepixo.com/people/larry-j-blake)
- [Julie Newmar](https://cinepixo.com/people/julie-newmar)
- [Marc Platt](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-platt)
- [Anna Q. Nilsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-q-nilsson)
- [Howard Petrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-petrie)
- [Matt Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/matt-moore)
- [Russell Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-simpson)
- [Russ Tamblyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/russ-tamblyn)

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