The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDon Weis
Screenplay byMax Shulman
Based onThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1951 short stories
by Max Shulman
Produced byArthur M. Loew Jr.
StarringDebbie Reynolds
Bobby Van
Barbara Ruick
Bob Fosse
Hanley Stafford
Hans Conried
CinematographyWilliam C. Mellor
Edited byConrad A. Nervig
Music byMusical Direction/Supervision
Jeff Alexander
Choreography
Alex Romero
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.[1]
Release date
  • 14 August 1953 (1953-08-14) (US)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$577,000[2]

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is a 1953 American comedy musical film directed by Don Weis. The film is based on the short stories by Max Shulman collected as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (also the title of the later TV series). Bobby Van played Gillis in this musical version, co-starring with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse.

The movie was filmed in black and white, MGM's first non-color musical film in years.[3] It was Fosse's technical screen debut, as it was his second film but the first to be released.[4]

  1. ^ The Affairs of Dobie Gillis at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Winkler was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Gottfried, Martin (2003). All his jazz : the life & death of Bob Fosse (2nd Da Capo Press ed.). Da Capo Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0306812842.