Little New Orleans Girl (1956 film)

Little New Orleans Girl is a 1956 American musical film, adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1954 play of the same name. In the present day, little girl named Sally Gold, who loves to play with her family, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans apartment building. The Broadway production and cast was converted to film with several changes.

Plot
Sally Gold, a little girl who loves her family. She takes a streetcar named "Desire" to the French Quarter, where her mother named Rosie, her aunt named Eleanor, her uncle named Simon Gold, Eleanor and Simon's children Violet named Tyrone, her brother named Pablo and her father named Gregory, live in a dilapidated tenement apartment. Blanche claims to be on leave from her teaching job due to her nerves and wants to stay with them. Sally's demure, refined manner is a stark contrast to Eugene's crude, brutish behavior, making them mutually wary and antagonistic. Children welcomes having Sally, but Rosie often patronizes and criticizes her.

It is revealed that Rosie and Sally's family estate, Belle Reve, was lost to creditors; the sisters are the last remnants of an old and once-wealthy Southern clan. Sally's old friend: Jesse (when she was a baby), widowed at a young age after her husband's suicide, is broke and had nowhere to go except to her sister. When Gregory suspects Eugene may be hiding inheritance money, she shows him paperwork proving the estate was foreclosed on. Simon, looking for further proof, knocks Violet's private papers to the floor. Weeping, she gathers them, saying they are poems from her dead husband. Sally excuses his behavior by explaining he was only looking out for her family, then announces Rosie is pregnant with Pablo.

The children meets their friend, Barney, whose courteous manner is a contrast to children's other pals. Mitch is attracted to Rosie's flirtatious charm, and a romance blossoms. During a poker night with their friends, The children explodes in a drunken rage, striking Sally and ending the game; Gregory and Rosie flee upstairs to neighbor Eugene's apartment. After his anger subsides, Lucy remorsefully bellows for children from the courtyard below. they are having fun at Madri Gras Performance of tap dance.

Cast

 * Betty Hutton as Rosie Gold
 * Howard Sims as Gregory Gold
 * Liza Minnelli as Sally Gold
 * Billy Williams as Pablo Gold
 * Sally Coleman as Eleanor Gold
 * George Stevens as Simon Gold
 * Patty Duke as Violet Gold
 * Spencer Rose as Tyrone Gold
 * Robert Luft as Barney
 * Zsa Zsa Coltman as Lucy
 * Dick Van Dyke as Eugene
 * Mickey Rooney as Horton

Production
Little New Orleans Girl was filmed from November 18, 1954 through March 8, 1955, and opened in Los Angeles on February 1, 1956, followed by a premiere on February 12st

Songs and music

 * 1) Moonlight Bay sung by George Stevens
 * 2) sung by Howard Sims
 * 3) Shine On, Harvest Moon sung by Liza Minnelli
 * 4) Some Sunday Morning - sung by Sally Coleman
 * 1) Some Sunday Morning - sung by Sally Coleman
 * 1) Some Sunday Morning - sung by Sally Coleman
 * 1) Some Sunday Morning - sung by Sally Coleman

Music

 * Leonard Bernstein

Home media
The film was released on DVD on February 14, 2004.