Director: Richard Thorpe
Genres: Musical
Rating:

Health faddist Mulvain (Louis_Calhern) and his astrology-minded wife Salome (Norma_Varden) hold court over their seven musical-prodigy daughters. Each girl is named after a mythical Greek: Athena (Jane_Powell), Minerva (Debbie_Reynolds), Niobe (Virginia_Gibson), Aphrodite (Nancy Kligas), Medea (Jane_Fischer), Calliope (Dolores_Starr) and Ceres (Cecile_Rogers). They also run around dressed in skimpy miniskirts, for those of you not interested in mythology. Athena falls in love with lawyer Adam Shaw (Edmund Purdom) and Minerva is ga-ga over crooner Johnny Nyle (Vic_Damone), neither of whom come up to Mulvain's notions of mental and physical perfection. A lesser product from the Joe_Pasternak musical mill, Athena is unremarkable save for an early appearance by future Hercules star Steve_Reeves and a nicely bitchy performance by the usually resistable Linda_Christian. Hal Erickson, Rovi


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