Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Baker's Wife (French: La femme du boulanger) is a 1938 French comedic drama film directed by Marcel Pagnol and featuring an ensemble cast lead by Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, and Fernand Charpin. It was adapted by Pagnol from an episode of French author Jean Giono's 1932 novel Blue Boy.
The Baker's Wife is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and the book by Joseph Stein, based on the 1938 French film of the same name by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono. The musical premiered in the West End in 1989 for a short run but, although establishing a dedicated cult following , has not been produced on Broadway .
Carole Demas (born May 26, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress, best known for originating the roles of Sandy in the 1971 Broadway musical Grease and the title role in the original 1976 production of The Baker's Wife, for many prime time television roles, hundreds of commercials, and for her role in the long-running children's television show The Magic Garden.
The novel was the basis for Marcel Pagnol's 1938 film The Baker's Wife. The film stars Raimu, Ginette Leclerc and Charles Blavette. [2] Pagnol's film was in turn adapted into the American musical The Baker's Wife, which premiered in 1976. [3] It was also the basis for the 2010 television film La Femme du boulanger, directed by Dominique Thiel. [4]
In the 1983 television movie Still the Beaver, she played Beaver's ex-wife Kimberly. Gleason debuted on film in 1986, with roles in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (as Carol) and Mike Nichols' Heartburn (as Diana). [8] She worked with Allen again in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), playing Wendy, the wife of Allen's character. [17]
Baker was born February 25, 1938 [2] at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and raised in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of North Hollywood and Studio City. She is the daughter of Dorothy Helen Harrington, who had appeared in several early Marx Brothers movies, and
The Grass Harp (March 27, 1952 – April 26, 1952) as The Baker's Wife Despite the brief length of the stage productions, Flynn garnered some good reviews. The New York Times noted her appearance in the very short-lived (5 days) 1940 production of Romantic Mr. Dickens , a drama about the romances of Charles Dickens , and wrote that she "fit ...
Sir William Stanley Baker (28 February 1928 – 28 June 1976) was a Welsh actor and film producer. Known for his rugged appearance and intense, grounded screen persona, he was one of the top British male film stars of the late 1950s, and later a producer.