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Gabriel Pascal (1894-1954)

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Birthplace:
Arad, Austria-Hungary [now Romania]

Born:
June 4, 1894

Died:
July 6, 1954

Biography from TheMovieDB

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.      Gabriel Pascal (4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian film producer and director.  Born 1894 in Arad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro–Hungarian Empire, Pascal was the first film producer to bring the plays of George Bernard Shaw successfully to the screen. His most famous production was Pygmalion, for which Pascal himself received an Academy Award nomination as its producer. Pygmalion was later adapted by Lerner and Loewe into the musical My Fair Lady. Pascal had tried to convince Shaw to let Pygmalion be turned into a musical, but the outraged Shaw explicitly forbade it, having had a bad experience with the operetta The Chocolate Soldier, based on Shaw's Arms and the Man. Pascal died in 1954, and it was not until 1956 that Pygmalion became My Fair Lady.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriel Pascal, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Production

Director:
1941  Major Barbara
1945  Caesar and Cleopatra

Producer:
1931  The Captain from Köpenick
1932  The Living Dead
1936  Cafe Mascot
1936  Reasonable Doubt
1939  Pygmalion
1941  Major Barbara
1945  Caesar and Cleopatra
1952  Androcles and the Lion

Unit Manager:
1931  The Captain from Köpenick
1932  The Living Dead
1936  Cafe Mascot
1936  Reasonable Doubt
1939  Pygmalion
1941  Major Barbara
1945  Caesar and Cleopatra
1952  Androcles and the Lion
2024  Interstate

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