The Merry Widow (1952 film)

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The Merry Widow (1952 film) is an American musical romantic comedy adaptation of Franz Lehár’s operetta, starring Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas and noted for its lavish MGM production.

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instanceOf film
artDirectionBy Cedric Gibbons NERFINISHED
Paul Groesse NERFINISHED
basedOn The Merry Widow (operetta) NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Charles Schoenbaum NERFINISHED
Robert H. Planck NERFINISHED
colorProcess Technicolor
composerOfSourceWork Franz Lehár NERFINISHED
costumeDesignBy Helen Rose NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Curtis Bernhardt NERFINISHED
distributionFormat theatrical release
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
editedBy Gene Ruggiero NERFINISHED
filmingStudio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios NERFINISHED
genre musical
romantic comedy
hasAdaptationSource Austro-Hungarian operetta
languageOfWorkOrName English
leadCharacter Crystal Radek NERFINISHED
leadCharacterPortrayedBy Lana Turner NERFINISHED
maleLeadCharacter Count Danilo NERFINISHED
maleLeadCharacterPortrayedBy Fernando Lamas NERFINISHED
musicBy Adolph Deutsch NERFINISHED
Franz Lehár NERFINISHED
notableFor lavish MGM production values
originalLanguage English
partOf MGM musical films NERFINISHED
producer Joe Pasternak NERFINISHED
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
releaseYear 1952
screenwriter Sonya Levien NERFINISHED
William Ludwig NERFINISHED
setting fictional European kingdom
starred Fernando Lamas NERFINISHED
George Givot NERFINISHED
Henri Letondal NERFINISHED
Isobel Elsom NERFINISHED
John Abbott NERFINISHED
Lana Turner NERFINISHED
Marcel Dalio NERFINISHED
Richard Haydn NERFINISHED
Una Merkel NERFINISHED

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