Figure 1.-- Here is a punlicity shot of Broadway diva, Janice Courtney (Debbie Reynolds) and the six orphan children and their pooch who adopted her. It looks like five kids, but all six are in gther oicture, three girlds and three boys. I think the children were reltive unknowns, but we recognise Teddy Eccles and Barry Livingston.

Broadway diva, Janice Courtney is of course played by Dennie Reynolds. She is adopted by six abandoned children and their huge pooch that she finds living on her property in the country. This was a vehicle taylor made for Reynolds. It is based on the novel My Six Loves by Peter V. K. Funk. Overworked because of her stardom, Courtney collapses from exhaustion. The demands of her career are just too much. Her doctor prescribes 6 months of rest and relaxation. So she retreats to her Connecticut estate for some much needed down time. Here she gets the surprise of her life -- a half-dozen scruffy orphan runaway squatters and their flea-bittern pooch living in an abandoned shack on her property. The children charm her and wuth the assistance housekeeper Ethel (Eileen Heckart) and a sympathetic local minister, Jim Larkin (Cliff Robertson) she begins to care for them. But then Broadway beakons. Producer Marty Bliss (David Janssen) talks her into a new Broaway production. Courtney returns to New York and her career. Then one of the children goes missing. Courtney leaves the New York abnd the play. When the nissing child is finally found, Courtney realizes that this is the life she really wants. Ans he is going to share it with Larken. I don't recognize most of the children, but Teddy Eccles played Sonny and Barry Livingston played Sherman. A charming, but rather predictabe mid-20th century with womn recognizing that acareer was not wht she really wanted. We are not sdur how it would play to a 21st century auduce where Hollywood and the media push the imprtabce of careers.

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