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Ferenc Molnár (originally
Ferenc Neumann 12 January 1878 in
Budapest —
1 April 1952 in
New York City) was a
Hungarian dramatist and
novelist. His Americanized name is
Franz Molnar. He emigrated to the
United States to escape the
Nazi persecution of Hungarian
Jews during
World War II.
As a novelist, Molnár is remembered principally for
The Paul Street Boys which tells the story of two rival gangs of youths in Budapest. The novel is a classic of youth literature, beloved in Hungary and abroad for its treatment of the themes of solidarity and self-sacrifice. It was ranked second in a poll of favorite books as part of the Hungarian version of
Big Read in 2005 and has also been made into a
film on several occasions. The most notable production was a
Hungarian-U.S. collaboration released in 1969
.
Molnár's most popular plays are
Liliom (1909, tr. 1921), later adapted into the
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play
Carousel (1945);
The Guardsman (1910, tr. 1924), which served as the basis of the
film of the same name (1931); and
The Swan (1920, tr. 1922). The 1956 film version of
The Swan (which had been filmed twice before) is famous for being
Grace Kelly's last movie, and for being released the same year that she herself became a princess. She married
Prince Rainier that same year.
Two of Molnar's other plays have been made into movie musicals:
The Good Fairy, (adapted by
Preston Sturges) was filmed in
1935 with
Margaret Sullavan, and subsequently turned into the 1947
Deanna Durbin vehicle,
I'll Be Yours. (It also served as the basis for the 1951
Broadway musical
Make a Wish.) The film version of the operetta
The Chocolate Soldier used the plot of Molnar's
The Guardsman rather than the plot of its original stage version. (The stage version of "The Chocolate Soldier" was an adaptation of
George Bernard Shaw's antiwar satire,
Arms and the Man, and Shaw had disapproved strongly that the operetta had stripped the play of its message.)
Molnar's play
Olympia was adapted for the movies
His Glorious Night (1929 - the notorious
talkie which allegedly ruined
John Gilbert's career),and
A Breath of Scandal (1960).
Finally, Molnar's play
The Play at the Castle has twice been adapted into English by writers of note: by
P. G. Wodehouse as
The Play's the Thing and by
Tom Stoppard as
Rough Crossing.
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