Ferenc Molnár
Nacimiento : 1878-01-12, Budapest, Hungary (Austria-Hungary)
Muerte : 1952-04-01
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Ferenc Molnár (originally Ferenc Neumann; 12 January 1878, in Budapest – 1 April 1952, in New York City) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar. He emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews during World War II.
As a novelist, Molnár is remembered principally for The Paul Street Boys, the story of two rival gangs of youths in Budapest. The novel is a classic of youth literature, beloved in Hungary and abroad for its treatment of the themes of solidarity and self-sacrifice. It was ranked second in a poll of favorite books as part of the Hungarian version of Big Read in 2005 and has also been made into a film on several occasions. The most notable production was a Hungarian-U.S. collaboration released in 1969.
Molnár's most popular plays are Liliom (1909, tr. 1921), later adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play Carousel (1945); The Guardsman (1910, tr. 1924), which served as the basis of the film of the same name (1931); and The Swan (1920, tr. 1922). His Hungarian film from 1918, The Devil , was later adapted for American audiences in 1921 and starring George Arliss in his first nationally released film. The 1956 film version of The Swan (which had been filmed twice before) was Grace Kelly's next to last movie, and was released on the day of her wedding to Prince Rainier.
Two of Molnar's other plays have been adapted for other media: The Good Fairy, was adapted by Preston Sturges and filmed in 1935 with Margaret Sullavan, and subsequently turned into the 1947 Deanna Durbin vehicle, I'll Be Yours. (It also served as the basis for the 1951 Broadway musical Make a Wish, with book by Sturges.) The film version of the operetta The Chocolate Soldier used the plot of Molnar's The Guardsman rather than the plot of its original stage version, which was based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. (Shaw disliked the operetta adaptation of his work, and would not let his plot be used for the film version.)
Molnar's play Olympia was adapted for the movies twice - as His Glorious Night (1929 - the notorious talkie which allegedly ruined John Gilbert's career), and as A Breath of Scandal (1960), starring Sophia Loren. In 1961, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond turned Molnar's one-act play Egy, kettő, három into the film One, Two, Three starring James Cagney and Horst Buchholz.
Finally, Molnar's play The Play at the Castle has twice been adapted into English by writers of note: by P. G. Wodehouse as The Play's the Thing and by Tom Stoppard as Rough Crossing.
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Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
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Historia de dos bandas rivales de jóvenes basada en una novela de Ferenc Molnár.
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In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.
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C.R. MacNamara, un alto directivo destinado en Berlín Occidental, recibe el encargo de cuidar de la hija de su jefe durante una de sus visitas. Cuando MacNamara se entera de que la chica se ha escapado y ha contraído matrimonio con un exaltado joven comunista, y de que su jefe estará de vuelta en tan solo veinticuatro horas, no le queda más remedio que transformar al reacio revolucionario en un yerno digno; de lo contrario, ya puede despedirse de su ascenso. Pero en menos de lo que se tarda en decir "un, dos, tres", sus planes se le escapan de las manos y provocan un incidente internacional capaz de enfadar a los rusos, a los alemanes y, lo que es peor, a su propia esposa, que ya está con la mosca detrás de la oreja.
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Viena, 1907. A pesar de haber sido desterrada, por sus indiscreciones, de la mansión familiar, una bella princesa austriaca (Sophia Loren) rechaza los proyectos de su madre que pretende casarla con un príncipe. Ella ha puesto sus ojos en un atractivo ingeniero americano (John Gavin) que está de visita y que cuenta con la aprobación de su padre (Maurice Chevalier).
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Los días de disfrutar de la vida real de la princesa Beatriz están contados, a menos que su única hija, la princesa Alexandra, cause una buena impresión en un primo lejano cuando le haga una visita sorpresa a su palacio. El príncipe Alberto ha buscado una novia por toda Europa y está aburrido de toda la rutina del noviazgo. Está más interesado en la lechería de la finca que en el jardín de rosas de Alexandra. Y luego comienza a jugar al fútbol con el tutor y los hermanos de Alexandra. Invite al tutor al baile de esa noche y observe con qué gracia baila Alexandra con él.
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Adaptación de un éxito de Broadway de Richard Rodgers y Oscar Hammerstein bajo la dirección de Rouben Mamoulian.
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Delilah es la joven camarera de un restaurante. El dueño se siente fuertemente atraído por ella, pero Delilah sólo le hace caso porque está obsesionada con conseguir dinero.
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Película ambientada en Nueva York y dividida en varios episodios independientes, pero enlazados entre sí por un traje de hombre que va pasando de unas manos a otras. Cada personaje vive una aventura especial relacionada con el traje.
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Un escritor acepta realizar una obra para una actriz con el objetivo de enamorar a la hermana de ésta.
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A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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Historia de una chica huérfana que siembra el bien y la confusión y que al final se transforma en una comedia sobre los estragos que la inocencia causa en el cinismo masculino.
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Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
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A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Theatre Play
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
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Theodor Shall is cast as handsome Lieutenant Kovacs, the sweetheart of the lovely Princess Olympia. When the princess' snooty mother breaks up the romance, the embittered Kovacs threatens to tell the world that he has "ruined" the girl (not true!), making her unfit for marriage. To ensure his silence, the Lieutenant is promised a night alone with Olympia, just before the wedding. It is at this point that Kovacs proves he's a gentleman after all by marrying the Princess, which is what he intended to do all along.
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Spanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
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A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
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A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
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Riza Rigi (Corrine Griffith), una bailarina de cabaret austríaca, se dedica a pequeños robos hasta que un día llama la atención de Nicholas Cathy (Ian Keith), un joven abogado del que está enamorada. Cathy la defenderá en un juicio sin éxito y, por desgracia, es enviada a la cárcel. Enamorados, ambos se esperarán hasta que ella salga de prisión.
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a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.
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The owner of a London clothing store is driven out of business, but later makes a triumphant return.
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The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
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A couple of boy gangs in Budapest constantly fight over the neighborhood turf.
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Dr. Muller, a friend to all, finds pleasure in turning the goodness in people to evil ends. He meets Marie Matin and her fiancée, Georges Roben, while viewing a new painting, "The Martyr--Truth Crucified by Evil." Marie declares that the picture was wrong--evil could never triumph over truth--and though Muller says he agrees with her, he plots to prove otherwise.
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The devil has arrived in Amsterdam, hell-bent on bombarding a poor girl, a wealthy banker and a young painter with great misfortune. This film is presumed lost.
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The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.
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Goldigger is about the California Gold Rush. Xarkrow, the lead character, leaves his home in Fortanska, a fictional city in Hungary, to go to California to dig for gold in the hills of the Sierra Nevada. While there he strikes it rich with great gold. This causes a female loan shark named Ygretta Roselettokopf of San Francisco to try to seduce him for his money.
