
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
1953 · Movie · 73 min · ★ 6.1
All I Do Is Dream of You. Not a bad preoccupation for singing lovebirds Dobie (Bobby Van) and Pansy (Debbie Reynolds). But they may want to add more to their cranial cogitations. Like dour Prof. Pomfritt's English class. And chemistry of the test tube and bunsen-burner kind. Dobie and Pansy are students at Grainbelt U., where the motto is Learn, learn, learn. Work, work, work. Yet who can blame them for having fun, fun, fun in this musical comedy scripted by Dobie author Max Shulman? Bob Fosse (one year from his breakthrough The Pajama Game stage choreography) plays Dobie's roomie and fellow skirt-chaser, showing wow, wow, wow brilliance with Van in the exuberant You Can't Do Wrong Doin' Right.
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Details
- Years
- 1953
- Release date
- 1953-08-14
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 73 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (7 votes)
Themes
- college
- musical
Cast & crew

Debbie Reynolds
as Pansy Hammer

Bobby Van
as Dobie Gillis

Barbara Ruick
as Lorna Ellingboe

Bob Fosse
as Charlie Trask

Hanley Stafford
as George Hammer

Lurene Tuttle
as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer

Hans Conried
as Prof. Pomfritt

Charles Lane
as Prof. Obispo
- AM
Archer MacDonald
as Harry Dorcas

Kathleen Freeman
as Stella Kowalski
Directed by Don Weis