Liliom

...to Dinner, Advertisement 1908 Birthday of actor Burgess Meredith (1908-1997), whose long Broadway career included original productions of Liliom, High Tor, Winterset, The Barretts of Wimpole Street and The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. He...

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...* * * * Romantic pairing: Farrell and Gaynor in 'Street Angel' Frank Borzage: Vol 1: 7th Heaven & Street Angel; Vol 2: Lucky Star & Liliom Charles Farrell and Janet (Sunrise) Gaynor aren't now household names like Bogart and Bacall...

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...the protagonist of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic stage musical Carousel ''. Bigelow, in turn was an Americanized version of Liliom, the protagonist of Hungarian author Ferenc Molnar's non-musical play ''Liliom, on which Carousel is based.

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...abuse. The song soon became played only rarely on the radio, as now. The 1930 Frank Borzage film Liliom contains the line "He hit me and it felt like a kiss" in its final scene. The film was not a success and there's nothing to suggest...

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...films. With the Nazis in power from 1933, he worked briefly in France, composing the music for Fritz Lang's French version of ''Liliom, but arrived in the United States by 1935. He was commissioned to write the score for Bride of...

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...abode of the souls of the dead in Greek mythology (5) 3 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that is based on the Ferenc Molnar play Liliom (8) 16 Gottlieb ---, German engineer and car manufacturer who died in 1900 (7) 18 See 13...

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...seven. There is also a Carpenter in Liliom who is in unrequited love with Julie, and who, in contrast to Liliom, has a stable job. Liliom was a failure in Hungary when it was staged there in 1909, but not when it was staged on Broadway in an...

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...and in motion pictures. On stage, one of his famous roles was as Ficsur in the original 1921 Broadway production of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the play that Rodgers and Hammerstein later musicalized as Carousel ''. Ficsur was the criminal who...

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...mention an opportunity to enjoy the magnificent voice of Lesley Garrett, worth the price of admission alone. Ferenc MolnA¡r, the author of Liliom, the book on which the musical was based, had already refused no less than Gershwin and...

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...Julie, the girlfriend who forgives Liliom (William Greenblatt) for knocking her around. Ia d never seen Liliom before. All I knew about it was that it had been the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, which I had seen at...

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