Word: ferenc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarlet woman, is less notable as an evening's entertainment than as a record-breaker for failure. Once called A Trip to Pressburg and again The Face at the Window, it was written by Leo Perutz and produced by Max Reinhardt in Vienna in 1931 with Mrs. Ferenc Molnar as the leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia in March 1933. The show failed. Next revisionists were Philip Dunning (Broadway) and Harold Johnsrud, whose version opened in Pittsburgh in November 1933 with...
Liliom (Erich Pommer). This adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's famed play, with French dialog and English subtitles, is notable for two reasons. Its director was Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis). Its star is Charles Boyer, who, after a comparatively inconsequential sojourn in Hollywood, returned to France a year ago and promptly became its leading matinee idol...
...cinema version of The Good Fairy lacks the sophistication which Author Ferenc Molnar wrote into his play from which it was derived, it is all the more amusing because of the omission. An example of Hollywood's newly discovered ability to scour without scratching, it emerges as a slight comedy which is no less wise for being less cynical and one which is performed with exactly the right blend of nervousness and imperturbability by all the members of its cast. Good shot: Herr Konrad giving his order for supper to Luisa's waiter, who thinks...
...Greater Glory," an adaptation of one of Ferenc Moluar's plays, has deservedly been hailed as the best children's picture of the year. Unlike-most, Hollywood attempts to amuse the kiddies it has a certain "universal appeal" which makes it good entertainment for sentimentalists of all ages...
...Henry Fonda, now appearing in Manhattan in New Faces. They were divorced last winter. She makes $1,200 a week, banks $1,000, likes to cook chicken livers and sweetbreads, enjoys fishing and is agreeable to hooking her own worms. Her next picture will be The Good Fairy, from Ferenc Molnar's play...