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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...
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...
...plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become an overweight Broadway musical. Inexplicably encouraged, Director Josh Logan set about making a new screen version, having prudently purchased the assurance that Pagnol's trilogy would not be shown concurrently...
...More from France's Pagnol. LETTERS FROM DMILL is an adaptation of tches by Alphonse Daudet; is very Gallic, and very, ny. Evenings...
...blank space on the right? 'H. Panisse,' it says." He reaches into a drawer and pulls out five signletters. "These have been waiting for 30 years: this is F, this is I, this is L, this is S, this is &. Panisse & Fils."), draws out the full scope of Pagnol's script...