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Marcel Lebon, as Prince Danilo, was even worse. When I heard that he had just come over from France, I was looking forward to a composite of Charles Boyer and Jean Sablon. And that's just what I got--he sings like Boyer and has the dramatic ability of Sablon. I must admit he is a good looking actor, and he added a lot to the show as long as he kept his mouth shut...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: The Music Box | 1/31/1952 | See Source »

...Medal of Honor, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with palm, Order of Danilo of Montenegro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Died. Donald Brian, 73, onetime Broadway musicomedy star (the original Prince Danilo in the 1907 Broadway production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow); in Great Neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Congress Hotel, Prima Donna Mafalda Favero of Milan's famed La Scala washed shirts for Baritone Danilo Checchi, who was stopping at another hotel. Favero pawned some of her jewelry, cried: "The first time I go to the jewelers to sell and not to buy. Maybe I get a mask and gun and go out Chicago style to get some money. This experience never was in the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Without a Song | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...sang The Merry Widow's dashing Prince Danilo. Less vocal (for reasons of state), Britain's gamesome King Edward VII and gamey King Leopold II of the Belgians were just as intime chez Maxim. To many another princely sprig, millionaire, archduke and demimondaine of the fey '90s, Maxim's in Paris' rue Royale was the most elegant bistro in Europe, the gaudiest symbol of the mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Maxim's Is Back | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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