Word: carpathia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supper turns the musical-comedy clock back to operetta, costumed in My Fair Lady style and set in London, where a royal delegation has arrived from the mythical kingdom of Carpathia for the coronation of George V. José Ferrer is a middle-aging, sleep-around prince, though he acts more like a wooden horse. His fancy, his fury, and his fate is to seduce a visiting American showgirl (Florence Henderson), a sunny birdbrain incubated in Wisconsin. Between Ferrer's dead-pained expression and Henderson's unvaryingly cheery smile, the pair manage to drive away all thoughts...