The Unsinkable Molly Brown

"All Charm, All Bounce, All Spirit And All Fun.It Is Impossible Not To Admire Her."-TIME

"Be sure the story is something you cannot resist," Richard Rodgers once advised Meredith Wilson.After considering 100 projects for a successor to The Music Man, Wilson found one that was irresistible.And unsinkable.

Debbie Reynolds plays the title role, inviting all to Belly Up to the Bar, Boys for the whoop-and-holler film of Wilson's 1960 Broadway hit.Reynolds won a 1964 Best Actress Oscar nomination as the backwoods heroine who survives the Titanic and snobbery of Denver society.Screen-debuting Harve Presnell reprises his stage role of Johnny, who has a heartful-and-a-half of love for Molly.Johnson wasn't alone.Astronauts Gus Grisson and John Young so admired the movie they named their Gemini 3 spacecraft Molly Brown.