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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 film about a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon who brings a wife home to his farm, and his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

Directed by Stanley Donen. Written by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley, based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benét.
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Adam

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  • Well, Pa used to say love is kind of like the measles. You only get it once. The older you are, the tougher it goes.
  • I'm here today to get me a wife. I don't aim to go back home empty handed. Now, you're all pretty and fresh and young. And I'll keep you in mind. But I ain't deciding on nothin' until I look them all over.
  • [singing] Pretty and trim, But not too slim, Heavenly eyes, And just the right size, Simple and sweet, And *sassy* as can be, Bless her beautiful hide, Yes, she's the girl for me!
  • [singing to Gideon about being in love] How can you tell what's in its spell? How can you tell unless you've tried it? Wait for that kiss you're certain of. And let your heart decide when you're in love.
  • You're beating your head against a stone wall, Milly. You'll never make jackadandies out of them!

Milly

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  • It's a whole month before the barn-raising and the picnic. But there's one thing you gotta remember: You're gonna have a lot of competition, 'cause every one of those girls down there has five or ten fellas buzzing around them.
  • Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
  • [to the brothers] This house is for the girls. You're not gonna set foot in it as long as they're here. You'll eat and sleep in the barn with the rest of the livestock. Now get out of here. I'm ashamed of you.

Caleb

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  • There were no F names in the Bible, so Ma named him Frankincense because he smelled so sweet.
  • Can't make no vows to a herd of cows.

Other

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  • Liza: Doesn't it do anything but snow up here? We've had a blizzard every day for the past two months. I'm going crazy, shut up in this house!

Dialogue

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Adam: I like best a widow woman that ain't afraid to work. There's seven of us men. Me and my six brothers. Place is like a pigsty, and the food tastes worse. So I made up my mind. The next time I come to town to trade, I'll bring me back a wife.
Mrs. Bixby: Well, that's a fine thing, I must say! Thinking you could come here and trade for a wife like she was a bag of meal.
Adam: Oh, oh, no, ma'am. I wouldn't say that, ma'am.
Mrs. Bixby: Let me tell you, none of our gals is going to go off to bear country with you - to cook and wash and slave for seven slummocky backwoodsmen.
Dorcas: [upon seeing the Pontipee brothers arrive at the barn raising] Who are they? I don't recall ever seeing them before.
Liza: They're strangers to me.
Ruth: Seven of them.
Martha: And all as tall as church steeples.
Alice: It's Milly! Milly!
Adam: [sarcastically] May I escort you to the ball, ma'am?
Milly: Well, it wouldn't hurt you to learn some manners, too.
Adam: What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife.
Adam: This is my brother Caleb.
Milly: How are you brother Caleb?
Adam: This is Milly, my wife.
Caleb: Your wife? Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! Hey Dan, he did it, he got married!
Milly: Good morning my brothers. If you're looking for your outside clothes, they're hanging up drying on the line. I came in before and got them. I couldn't get your inside clothes, so I'll take them now.
Benjamin: Our underwear?
Milly: You're winter underwear that you're sleeping in. You might as well hand it over because you're not gonna get your clothes or food or nothing til you get all cleaned up and shaved.
Benjamin: Where's Adam? We wanna talk to Adam.
Milly: He's out plowing, he had his breakfast over a half an hour ago. I got hot muffins waiting, crisp bacon, steak, fryer potatoes, fresh ground coffee. Now do I get that winter underwear, or do I have to come in there and take it off of you?
Benjamin: Don't listen to her. She wouldn't dare.
Milly: Oh, wouldn't I?
Milly: Don't you like girls?
Gideon: We ain't never hardly ever seen one.
Ruth: [Caleb is helping her bring food to the table] If you'll just follow me.
Caleb: To the ends of the earth.
Adam: [after Milly has banished him and his brothers to the barn for kidnapping the girls] Now you're takin' this too hard! Everything will work out fine. We'll get a preacher up here someway or another.
Milly: [Shocked and irate] You think that those girls would marry them now? You think it's so easy because I didn't court you or nothin', that that's all there is to it! I married you because I fell in love with you the moment I saw you, but I thought it was the same for you too.
Adam: Now, Milly...
Milly: [Enraged and distraught] You think a wife's just a cookin' thing! You've got no understandings, you've got no feelings! How could you do a thing like this? Just think of these poor girls sick with fright-!... And their families crazy with worry-!... I can't abide to look at you!
[goes inside, slams the door]
Adam: What do you call her?
Milly: I was thinking of some name like Hannah or Hagar or Hephzibah, picking up where your mother left off.
Adam: Hannah.
Milly: Hannah.
Adam: I got to thinking up at the cabin, about the baby. How I'd feel if someone came creeping in and carried her off. I'd string him up the nearest tree. I'd shoot him down as I would a thieving fox.
Rev. Elcott: [after rounding up the girls] We're all fathers here and we love you, so don't be afraid to answer. A while back I heard a wee babe crying in the house. Whose is it?
[girls look at one another]
Rev. Elcott: Whose is it, don't be afraid to tell?
Dorcas, Alice, Sarah, Liza, Ruth, Martha: [all at once and smiling] Mine!

Taglines

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  • The once-in-a-lifetime musical romp!
  • A WONDERFUL, YOUTHFUL, LOVIN', KISSIN' MUSICAL ABOUT SEVEN STOLEN SWEETIES AND THEIR SHOTGUN WEDDINGS!
  • SINGIN'! DANCIN'! ROMANCIN'!

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