The Dolly Sisters (film)

The Dolly Sisters
Theatrical poster
Directed byIrving Cummings
Written byJohn Francis Larkin
Marian Spitzer
Produced byGeorge Jessel
StarringBetty Grable
June Haver
John Payne
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byBarbara McLean
Music byAlfred Newman
Cyril J. Mockridge
Charles E. Henderson
David Buttolph
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • November 14, 1945 (1945-11-14) (New York City)
  • February 1, 1946 (1946-02-01) (Los Angeles[1])
Running time
114 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4 million (US/ Canada rentals) [2][3][4]

The Dolly Sisters is a 1945 American Technicolor biographical film about the Dolly Sisters, identical twins who became famous as entertainers on Broadway and in Europe in the early years of the 20th century as Jennie and Rosie Dolly (Yansci and Roszika Deutsch), Hungarian-born entertainers. It starred Betty Grable as Jenny, June Haver as Rosie and John Payne as Harry Fox.

  1. ^ "1946". graumanschinese.org. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  2. ^ "All-Time Top Grossers", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 69
  3. ^ "Variety (September 1946)". 1946.
  4. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221