Ferenc Molnar


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Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Mon Couer S'Ouvre A Ta Voix Rise Stevens, with her second song in her first movie, is observed by her husband (Nelson Eddy, with pal Nigel Bruce), indulging her urge to move from her Vienna musical theater career into high opera, with a song from Saint-Saens, in MGM’s mix-and-match musical The Chocolate Soldier, 1941.
Bride Wore Red, The -- (Movie Clip) So Rich And Important Hired to pose as an aristocrat, arriving at the fictional resort Terrana, Anni (Joan Crawford) meets postman Giulio (Franchot Tone, Crawford's husband), in The Bride Wore Red, 1938, directed by Dorothy Arzner.
Swan, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Send For Caesar! Opening credits and Princess Beatrix (Jessie Royce Landis) in a panic, from Charles Vidor's The Swan, 1956, starring Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness and Louis Jourdan, shot at the Vanderbilt (Biltmore) Estate in North Carolina.
Swan, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) This Air Of Yours Sublime dialogue (credit to playwright Ferenc Molnar and screenwriter John Dighton) as Prince Albert (Alec Guinness) and Princess Alexandra (Grace Kelly) are left together-alone, in Charles Vidor's The Swan, 1956.
Swan, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Fencing Lessons In fairness, Louis Jourdan ("Dr. Agi") looks just about as good in fencing gear as Grace Kelly ("Princess Alexandra") does, in an early scene from Kelly's last movie, The Swan, 1956, from the play by Ferenc Molnar.
Carousel (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Your Little Pink Bustle Carnival barker Billy (Gordon MacRae) begins his flash-back from heaven, to Maine where he works for Mrs. Mullin (Audrey Christie), noticing pretty Julie (Shirley Jones) and Carrie (Barbara Ruick) in the crowd, early in Darryl Zanuck's 1956 20th Century Fox production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.
Carousel (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Never Walk Alone Upon the death (accidental, in this movie version) of her betrothed, Julie (Shirley Jones) comforted by Cousin Nettie (Claramae Turner), with the song best known today as the anthem of Liverpool Football Club (as performed by Gerry And The Pacemakers), from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, 1956.
Blonde Fever (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Decorative, Isn't She? Nevada restauranteur Donay (Philip Dorn) and wife Delilah (Mary Astor) greeting friend Mrs. Talford (Elizabeth Risdon), who comments on the hot new cigarette girl Sally (Gloria Grahame), early in Blonde Fever, 1945
No Greater Glory (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Stand And Deliver Their young leader Boka (Jimmie Butler) having fled, "Paul Street Boys" George Breaktson (as "Nemecsek"), Donald Haines and Beaudine Anderson keep cool as badder "Red Shirts," led by "Feri Arts" (Frankie Darro) take their marbles, in No Greater Glory, 1934, Frank Borzage's film from a Ferenc Molnar novel.
No Greater Glory (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Only Through War After opening with a wounded veteran raging against war, director Frank Borzage offers a teacher (Egon Brecher), taking the opposite tack with pupils Jimmie Butler, Jackie Searl, Wesley Giraud, Donald Haines, Beaudine Anderson and star George Breakston, in No Greater Glory, 1934.
Bride Wore Red, The -- (Movie Clip) Bring A Girl To My Table Count Armalia (George Zucco), dispirited at the pretensions of his social set, in Trieste's seediest saloon, meets singer Anni (Joan Crawford), early in The Bride Wore Red, 1937, from a play by Ferenc Molnar.
Guardsman, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Play Chopin! Having dismissed groupies after a show, and using special effects to fantasize about his wife, Alfred Lunt ("The Actor") joins her (Lynn Fontanne) and worries about her choice of music, in The Guardsman, 1931.

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