The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game is a 1957 American musical film based on the 1954 stage musical of the same name, itself based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Pike Bissell. The film was produced and directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, with most Broadway cast members repeating their roles in the movie with the notable exception of star Doris Day. The choreography is by Bob Fosse, who also staged the dances for the Broadway production. Plot Sid Sorokin has just been hired as superintendent of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the union is pushing for a raise of seven-and-one-half cents per hour to bring them in line with the industry standard. The factory's owner, Mr. Hasler, thinks the raise is unnecessary. Sid soon falls for Babe Williams, a worker in the factory and member of the employee union's leadership. At the company picnic they become a couple, but Babe worries that their roles in management and labor will drive them apart, as the workers are planning a slow-down of work. When Babe sabotages the machinery, Sid fires her, ending their relationship. Meanwhile, the factory's time study man, "Hinesy", is unable to get over his suspicions that his girlfriend Gladys, Hasler's secretary, is unfaithful to him. Hoping to uncover Hasler's secrets, Sid takes Gladys on a date to the local hot spot, "Hernando's Hideaway." In her drunken state, Gladys lends him the key to the locked book. Sid discovers that Hasler reported the raise as having been instituted months ago and has been pocketing the difference himself. Sid threatens to send the book to the board of directors if the raise is not paid immediately.