Before Two Broke Girls and Laverne and Shirley there was this tale of two girls trying make a go of it in the big city - it probably wasn't the first (every time you say something is the first a French film that came before it pops up) but it was one of the first big hits - as short stories, a play, then a film, and a sitcom, radio show, and musical.
This is based on the film and has Shirley Booth repeat her stage performance as the less pretty sister who lives with pretty Eileen in Greenwich village. Wacky landlords, lecherous men, romantic interests, flustered cops and judges - they're all here.
The host says the climax with subway men crashing through their walls was one of the most imaginative in Broadway - well, maybe it was then. Eileen is an annoying character, just being good to look at and wanting to be an actor, but her sister is funny.
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