Marius (play)

Play written by the French writer Marcel Pagnol

Marius

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 who is his childhood friend.

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

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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. The Golden Anchor (German: Zum goldenen Anker), a 1932 film by Alexander Korda, is the German-language version of the 1931 film Marius. 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

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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

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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

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1. ^ Wearing p.129
2. ^ Goble p.357
3. ^ "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

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* 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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