Athena is a romantic musical comedy released on 4 November 1954 by MGM.

Not a great success on its release, this Motion Picture has an unusual and somewhat campy appeal.

The film tells the story of a passionate girl with an extended family who share her unconventional beliefs. She falls in love with an old-fashioned man who is engaged to another woman!

The film includes many joyful songs with clever choreography.

The writers appear to have had fun inventing characters whose beliefs are an odd mixture of assertiveness, natural health, the supernatural, and bodybuilding for men.

Attorney, Purdom, and singer, Damone, romance two sisters, Reynolds and Powell, who live with and are strongly influenced by eccentric, health oriented and star gazing grandparents. Written by Anonymous

Athena Mulvain (Jane Powell) has attorney Adam Shaw (Edmund Purdom) reeling, and she knows he will marry her because the stars say so. The same goes for her sister Minerva (Debbie Reynolds) and the idol of the bobby-soxers Johnny Nyle (Vic Damone.) But winning the girls also involves their weight-lifting grandfather (Louis Calhern), star-gazing grandmother (Evelyn Varden) and their five beautiful, gymnastic sisters (Virginia Gibson, Nancy Kilgas, Dolores Starr, Jane Fischer and Cecile Rogers.) Adam and Johnny accept the health diet of molasses and yogurt and try to please the rest of the physical culture family, but trouble looms when Adam humiliates Grandpa's "Mr. America" protege (Steve Reeves) in a fight. Written by Les Adams