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Fanny (1932)

Not Rated | | Comedy, Drama | 12 February 1948 (USA)
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After Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.

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Complete credited cast:
... César
... Marius
... Fanny
... Honore Panisse (as Charpin)
Auguste Mouriès ... Félix Escartefigue (as Mouriès)
Robert Vattier ... Albert Brun (as Vattier)
Marcel Maupi ... Innocent Mangiapan chauffeur du ferry-boat (as Maupi)
Alida Rouffe ... Honorine Cabanis
Milly Mathis ... Tante Claudine Foulon
Odette Roger ... Fortunette
Louis Boulle ... Elzéar
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Marius has left, signed up for a five year hitch on a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. In his few letters to his father César, he hardly mentions Fanny. When she finds she is pregnant, she considers her options: suicide, to raise the child on her own, to wait for Marius, or to marry Honoré Panisse, the older merchant who seeks her hand. These choices are emotional: to raise a bastard, to trust in Marius' eventual return, to believe he'll want to marry her, to save her mother from shame, to fool Panisse, to give her child a name. In scenes dramatizing Fanny's honesty, she talks to her mother, then Panisse, César, and later Marius, and she makes her choices. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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$7,720, 6 January 2017, Limited Release

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$22,505, 27 January 2017
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Famed restaurateur and founder of California cuisine, Alice Waters, was so taken with the Fanny trilogy that she named her Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. The café upstairs from the restaurant is decorated with posters from the films Marius, Fanny, and César. Waters also named her own daughter Fanny and opened a small breakfast café in Berkeley called "Café Fanny" in 1984 which closed in March 2012. See more »

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Sail Back Home and Away Again
6 September 2009 | by – See all my reviews

Part two of Marcel Pagnol's wonderfully simple, but, mind me, not simple-minded Marseilles trilogy is even funnier and more touching than its predecessor, thanks to expanded supporting roles and a broader variety of outdoor locations.

The dialogue is as humorously and emotionally rich as ever and the cast, almost outshone by Raimu's terrific performance, works wonders with their lines.

The pace may drag slightly from time to time and some story aspects feel redundant, but the basic concerns of Pagnol's deeply philanthropic approach to issues like paternal love, social constraints and diverging attitudes towards life offer more than enough pleasures.

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