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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is a 1953 American comedy musical film directed by Don Weis. The film is based on the short stories by Max Shulman collected as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (also the title of the later TV series). Bobby Van played Gillis in this musical version, co-starring with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced the first media adaptation of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in 1953 as The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, a black-and-white musical film starring Debbie Reynolds, Bob Fosse, and Bobby Van as Dobie Gillis.
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis: Directed by Don Weis. With Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an eastern school, but with help from Happy Stella Kowalski's all-girl band, several hundred students, and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
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- Comedy, Musical
- Don Weis
- 1953-08-14
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Created by Max Shulman. With Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus. A young man schemes and attempts to get the "better things in life" mostly popularity, success, and most importantly, girls.
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- 1959-09-29
- Comedy, Family
- 30
Feb 21, 1988 · Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis: Directed by Stanley Z. Cherry. With Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Connie Stevens, Sheila James Kuehl. Nearly a generation later, the middle-aged Dobie Gillis is nothing like he was as a youth, having sown all of his wild oats.
- (202)
- Comedy
- Stanley Z. Cherry
- 1988-02-21
The working title of this film was The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Dancer-choreographer-director Bob Fosse (1927-1987) made his feature film debut in the film. The Affairs of Dobie Gillis inspired a television show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which starred Dwayne Hickman as "Dobie" and ran on the CBS network from 1959-1963.
THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS (1959) is one of the first TV shows about the lives of teenagers. I watched this show with my mother along with Jack Lalanne...I loved how Dobie talked to the camera. Dwayne Hickman starred as Dobie Gillis, a daydreamer with a lust for life and beautiful girls.
