Word: pagnol
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...Well Digger's Daughter, which Marcel Pagnol made just before the war, has all the ingredients of some of Frank Capra's films, like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It is almost as old; it has a good deal of comedy, a heavy dollop of pathos, and something of a social message. It is entertaining-about as entertaining as Mr. Smith would be to a French audience...
...Playhouse 90, TV's only 1½-hour show, was last year's best dramatic program. So far this year it is only the longest. Last week the show tried an adaptation of Topaze, Marcel Pagnol's tart comedy about a naively idealistic French teacher who is gulled by a grafting politician until he turns the tables, learning at last that vice is its own reward. The preposterous little fable is funniest when played in deadly earnest. Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with...
...most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed by Rod Serling's study of the Hungarian revolt, The Dark Side of the Earth, with Van Heflin, and Marcel Pagnol's Topaze, with Ernie Kovacs...
Fanny (book by S. N. Behrman & Joshua Logan, based on a trilogy by Marcel Pagnol; music and lyrics by Harold Rome) might have come off far better had it been done on a shoestring. For its very Gallic story of the Marseille waterfront-of a young girl who finds herself pregnant after her sea-crazed lover sails away, and of her marriage to a widower who loves her and craves a child-is a ticklish compound of sentiment and hard sense, of ruefulness and worldliness, that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both...
Fanny (Marcel Pagnol's plays Marius, Fanny and Cesar, adapted as a musical by S.N. Behrman, Josh Logan and Harold J. Rome) stars Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak, opens Nov. 4 under Logan's direction...