Fanny (1961 film)

Fanny is a 1961 American Technicolor drama film directed by Joshua Logan. The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein is based on the book for the 1954 stage musical of the same title by Logan and S.N. Behrman, which in turn had been adapted from Marcel Pagnols trilogy Marius 1929 and Fanny 1932, plays which he adapted to film a year or two later and Csar, the film he wrote and directed for the screen in 1936 and later adapted for the stage.

Csar Charles Boyer is a barkeeper in Marseille in the early 1920s. His 19yearold son Marius Horst Buchholz works for him at his bar, but wants nothing more than to go to sea and leave his boring existence behind. The only thing holding him back is Fanny Leslie Caron, an 18yearold girl with whom he grew up. Fanny works selling fish with her mother down at the waterfront. Fanny has been in love with Marius her whole life, and flirts with him, but Marius always rejects her.Fanny invites Marius to a Sunday night dance, but he rejects her once more. Unbeknownst to Fanny, Marius is planning to leave the next day, having secretly signed on as a sailor on a lengthy scientific expedition traveling around the world after being encouraged to do so by his friend known as the Admiral Raymond Bussieres. Fanny is offended and leaves. ........

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