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Starts Wednesday: Another Hollywood re-tread, this one of a delightful Marcel Pagnol novel, Fanny, which became, progressively, a stage play, a fine trilogy of films, a dull Broadway musical, and now all this -- the poorest of the lot. The principals are Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz and (how could it possibly be a decent picture?) Maurice Chevalier. Joshua Logan directed. Afternoons and evenings...
...Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover, in which the author grins rather than glooms over sin; the play, a solid London hit, involves a love triangle, with a cuckolded dentist at the base (Nov. 1). Julie Harris will appear as a chambermaid employed by a French millionaire in Marcel Achard's The Naked Truth. Playwright John Patrick (The Teahouse of the August Moon) returns to Broadway with Everybody Loves Opal, starring Eileen Heckart...
...send-off from famed Authoress Simone (The Second Sex) de Beauvoir. Its simply told case histories of women who needed to prevent unwanted pregnancies aroused the conscience of her fellow doctors. France's leading Protestant theologian, Pastor Marc Boegner, backed her; so did Authors Georges Duhamel and Gabriel Marcel. In their wake came scores of newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV" programs. France at last awoke to Dr. Weill-Halle's crusade...
...much creative energy on his titles, had something left over for the plays themselves. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, described in undergraduate fashion by the playwright himself as "a pseudoclassical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition." shows influences in every scene-from strong, cynical gusts of Jean Anouilh, Marcel Ayme and Jean Giraudoux down to weak, cynical undertones of Elizabeth Taylor: "He's dead. Listen to me. I'm alive." It is a spoof of everything from waltzing toreadors to Tennessee Williams; and like the characters of Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Kopit's people are named with...
Fanny (Joshua Logan; Warners) is a waif who has knocked around for almost as long as Little Orphan Annie; the difference is that now and then she changes her dress. French Filmmaker Marcel Pagnol...