Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Seven Bride For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

The Pontipee brothers, led more by tumbling Gideon (Russ Tamblyn) than eldest Adam (Howard Keel) dazzle the crowd in choreographer Michael Kidd's famous barn-raising dance from Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Adam (Howard Keel) counsels his brothers with an improbable historical reference via Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer's "Sobbin' Women," which in turn was based on the satirical Stephen Vincent Benèt story from which the musical was written, in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954.

Jane Powell’s first solo song, as Millie, spontaneously married to Oregon backwoodsman Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel), for now having no idea he has brothers, composed by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, direction by Stanley Donen, in MGM’s Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Cocky Oregonian Adam (Howard Keel) expresses romantic aspirations with Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer's "Bless Your Beautiful Hide," before meeting his co-star and bride to be Jane Powell, early in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

Having trounced the locals in an impromptu dance challenge, the Pontipee brothers wind up in a slugfest, also choreographed by Michael Kidd, in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.

When their older brother marries, six lumberjacks decide it's time to go courting for themselves in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).