Paul Newman was reunited with director Robert Wise, who had catapulted him to stardom in “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” for his third MGM loan-out from Warner in the WWII melodrama “Until They Sail.”
Until They Sail (1957): Robert Wise’s Middling War Melodrama, Starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman
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Reluctant Debutante, The (1958): Minnelli’s Comedy, Starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee
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Vincente Minnelli's The Reluctant Debutante was based on William Douglas Home’s drawing-room comedy about the last group of debutantes to be presented to the Queen before the archaic ritual was abandoned. On the surface, Home’s satire of the London Season and its toll on one debutante’s father sounded like a British version of Father of the Bride.
