Question: Satte Pe Satta is adapted from the 1954 movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which starred an American singer, dancer, and actress, who was a contract player for who?

Context articles: Raj N. Sippy
Sudhir (Hindi actor)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Amhi Satpute
Mac Mohan
Satte Pe Satta
Jane Powell
Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii
Gulshan Kumar Mehta
Jyoti Swaroop

Raj N. Sippy (born 6 March 1948, India) also known as Raj Sippy, is a senior Indian film director and producer concentrating on "Bollywood" films.
 He was very prominent in the 1980s, with successful films.
 His major success were "!
 Inkaar", Satyamev Jayate and Mahaadev with Vinod Khanna, "Satte Pe Satta" with Amitabh Bachchan, then "Boxer" and "Baazi" with Mithun Chakraborty He directed "Satyamev Jayate", the come back film of Vinod Khanna after his Osho stint.
Bhagwandas Mulchand Luthria aka Sudhir (1944 – 12 May 2014) was a Bollywood film actor.
 He was best known for his role in the film "Satte Pe Satta" with Amitabh Bachchan.
 He acted in over 200 films in a career spanning from 1962 to 2009.
 He was one of Bollywood’s best known baddies from the 1970s through to the 1990s.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 musical film, photographed in Ansco Color in the CinemaScope format.
 The film was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and choreography by Michael Kidd.
 The screenplay, by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley, is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women.
 "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", which is set in Oregon in 1850, is particularly known for Kidd's unusual choreography, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and raising a barn.
 Film critic Stephanie Zacharek has called the barn-raising sequence in "Seven Brides" "one of the most rousing dance numbers ever put on screen."
Amhi Satpute is a 2008 Marathi remake of the Hindi action comedy film "Satte Pe Satta".
 It was made by Sachin Pilgaonkar who also appears in it, alongside other primary cast including Ashok Saraf, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Swapnil Joshi, Atul Parchure and Nirmiti Sawant.
Mohan Makijany (24 April 1938 – 10 May 2010), popularly known as Mac Mohan, was a well-known Indian character actor in Hindi language films.
 Although Mac Mohan acted in 218 films and remained popular as a rather sympathetic villain through the 1970s and 1980s with films like "Don", "Karz", "Satte Pe Satta", "Zanjeer", "Rafoo Chakkar", "Shaan" and "Khoon Pasina", he is mostly remembered for his role of Sambha, the sidekick of dacoit Gabbar Singh in Ramesh Sippy's blockbuster "Sholay" (1975).
Satte Pe Satta (Hindi: सत्ते पे सत्ता , "tr."
 Seven on Seven) is a Hindi action comedy film released in 1982.
 It featured Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Ranjeeta Kaur, Sachin, Shakti Kapoor, Paintal, Sudhir, Inderjeet, Sarika, Kanwaljit Singh, Prema Narayan, Mac Mohan and Kalpana Iyer amongst others.
 The film became a hit at the box office.
 Satte pe Satta is Adapted from 1954 Movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Starring Howard Keel & Jane Powell in lead.
Jane Powell (born Suzanne Lorraine Burce; April 1, 1929) is an American singer, dancer and actress who rose to fame in the mid-1940s with roles in various musicals as a contract player for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures.
Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii (Hindi: चेन कुली की मेन कुली) is a 2007 Hindi-language Indian sports comedy film directed by Karanjeet Saluja (also known as Kittu Saluja ).
 It stars Zain Khan and Rahul Bose as the lead protagonists.
 The film's title is taken from lines spoken by Amitabh Bachchan's character in the 1982 film "Satte Pe Satta".
 The film is based on the Hollywood movie "Like Mike" in which a thirteen-year-old boy finds a cricket bat after which his life takes a dramatic turn.
 The film features music by Salim-Sulaiman and lyrics by Irfan Siddiqui.
 Cricketer Kapil Dev also makes a cameo appearance in the film.
Gulshan Kumar Mehta, popularly known by his pen name Gulshan Bawra (literally: "Gulshan the madman") (12 April 1937 – 7 August 2009), was an Indian songwriter and actor in Hindi cinema.
 In a career spanning 42 years, he has to his credit about 240 songs, he collaborated with noted music directors like Kalyanji Anandji, Shankar Jaikishan, and R D Burman composed almost half of songs in films like "Khel Khel Mein" (1975), "Kasme Vaade" (1976) and "Satte Pe Satta" (1982).
 Apart from R.D. Burman hits, he is most remembered for his songs like, "Mere Desh Ki Dharti" in "Upkaar" (1968), and "Yaari Hai Imaan Mera", "Zanjeer" (1974), both of which got him the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award.
 The latter also top the Binaca Geetmala annual list of 1973.
 As a character actor, he also appeared in a small number of Hindi films.
Jyoti Swaroop was an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, who was one of the leading film directors in Hindi cinema of the 1960s and early 70s.
 His most well known films as a director include Parwana (1971 film), Padosan and Satte Pe Satta.