Marius (play)
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| Written by | Marcel Pagnol |
| Date premiered | 1929 |
| Original language | French |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | Marseilles, France |
Marius is a 1929 play by the French writer Marcel Pagnol. It takes place in Marseilles, where a young man named Marius working in a café dreams of going to sea, his obsession eventually overcoming his developing romance with Fanny, a local girl.
Two years later a British version Sea Fever by John Van Druten was staged unsuccessfully in the West End.[1] The same year Pagnol wrote a sequel Fanny.
Film adaptation
[edit]In 1931 the play was turned into a film Marius directed by Alexander Korda for the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures with a screenplay written by Pagnol himself. In 1938 this was remade as an American film Port of Seven Seas by James Whale.[2] In 2013 it was remade by Daniel Auteuil.
Cast recording
[edit]An audio cast recording of select scenes, with minor rewritings, was made at the studios Pelouze in Paris in March 1932 and on 2 and 14 December 1933 for Columbia Records by the main cast (Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Raimu, Fernand Charpin, Paul Dullac, Robert Vattier, Henri Vilbert). It was later re-issued on compact disc.[3]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "La leçon de bistrot" (The Bartending Lesson) | 03:11 |
| 2. | "Le retour de M. Brun" (Monsieur Brun’s Return) | 03:15 |
| 3. | "Je sors" (I’m Going Out) | 02:58 |
| 4. | "Pauvre Félicité" (Poor Félicité) | 03:13 |
| 5. | "Je t’aime bien, Papa" (I Like You Very Much, Papa) | 06:33 |
| 6. | "La partie de cartes" (The Card Game) | 06:11 |
| 7. | "Le petit déjeuner et l’histoire de Zoé" (The Breakfast and Zoé’s Story) | 05:57 |
References
[edit]- ^ Wearing p.129
- ^ Goble p.357
- ^ "Notice bibliographique — Le théâtre parisien de Sarah Bernhardt à Sacha Guitry". BnF Catalogue général (in French). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
Bibliography
[edit]- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
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