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The 1956 film version of The Swan was Grace Kelly's penultimate film, and was released on the day of her wedding to Prince Rainier.

His 1918 film, The Devil, was adapted three years later for American audiences, starring George Arliss in his first nationally released film. Ferenc's most popular plays are Liliom, later adapted into the musical Carousel The Guardsman, which served as the basis of the 1931 film of the same name, which starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and The Swan. He later wrote Reflections of a War Correspondent, describing his experiences. So positive were his war reports that he was decorated by the Habsburg Emperor, but criticized by some of his pacifist peers. Molnár served as a proud and jingoistic supporter of the Austro-Hungarian Empire while working as a war correspondent during the First World War. During this period he published articles in Hungarian newspapers and wrote his first novellas and short stories. Upon completion of secondary school in 1895, Molnar studied law at the University of Budapest and at the Swiss University in Geneva. He then entered a Calvinist secondary school, where he printed his own periodicals and staged his first play at the age of fourteen. Mór Neumann, a prosperous and popular gastroenterologist, and Jozefa Wallfisch.Īs was usual among the Hungarian upper class, he was educated by private tutors until the age of nine. Molnár's play The Good Fairy was adapted by Preston Sturges and filmed in 1935 with Margaret Sullavan, and subsequently turned into the 1947 Deanna Durbin vehicle, I'll Be Yours.įerenc Molnár was a Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist who adopted American citizenship.įerenc Molnár was born in Budapest on Januto Dr. He later wrote Reflections of a War Correspondent, describing his experiences.įerenc's most popular plays are Liliom, later adapted into the musical Carousel The Guardsman, which served as the basis of the 1931 film of the same name, which starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and The Swan.