It says a lot that even when I saw this film at age twelve I found this movie extremely problematic. There are many great musicals of the 40s and 50s that have issues that you can justify as being 'a different time' - Kiss Me Kate is the biggest one - but this one never set right with me. Of all the MGM musicals that I watched as a child and young adult, I have never had returned to Seven Brides and I don't want too. I don't know if its an original concept the way that such classics as Singin in the Rain and The Band Wagon were, but the fact that it received a Best Picture nomination and the other two didn't....well that's one of the Oscars HUGEST mistakes in more ways then one.