Two Sisters from Boston

Two Sisters from Boston
File:Two-Sisters-from-Boston-1946.jpg movie poster
Directed by	Henry Koster
Produced by	Joe Pasternak
Written by	Myles Connolly
Starring	Kathryn Grayson June Allyson Lauritz Melchior Jimmy Durante Peter Lawford
Cinematography	Robert Surtees
Edited by	Douglass Biggs
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	April 1946
Running time	112 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,223,000
Box office	$4,461,000

Two Sisters from Boston is a 1946 musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster. Starring Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford.

Cast

• Kathryn Grayson as Abigail Chandler
• June Allyson as Martha Chandler
• Peter Lawford as Lawrence
• Jimmy Durante as Spike
• Lauritz Melchior as Olstrom
• Nella Walker as Mrs. Patterson

Reception

According to MGM records, the film was a hit, making $3,334,000 in the US and Canada and $1,127,000 elsewhere, leading to a profit of $605,000.

Influence

The English post-punk band The Chameleons used a sample from the film as the introduction to the song "Don't Fall," the first song on their 1983 debut album Script of the Bridge. The scene features Lawford's character, Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Jr., asking his mother, played by Nella Walker, about the age of his father. After she tells him that his father is younger than he looks and still 'spry,' Patterson, Jr. says "In his autumn, before the winter, comes man's last mad surge of youth." His mother quickly replies, "What on earth are you talking about?" These two lines consist of the sample as used by the Chameleons. Patterson, Jr. goes on to say that he is quoting the ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles, but the quote itself appears to be either apocryphal, misattributed by the screenwriters or else created by them originally. The Chameleons also used the same sample on an otherwise instrumental recording from the same period, "Prisoners of the Sun."

External links

• Two Sisters from Boston at IMDb
• Two Sisters from Boston at AllMovie
• Two Sisters from Boston at the TCM Movie Database