The Train for Venice (play)

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The Train for Venice
Written byGeorges Berr and Louis Verneuil
Date premiered16 December 1937
Place premieredThéâtre Saint-Georges, Paris
Original languageFrench
GenreComedy

The Train for Venice (French: Le train pour Venise) is a 1937 comedy play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. A farce, it premiered at the Théâtre Saint-Georges in Paris with a cast that included Verneuil, Huguette Duflos, André Alerme and Roland Armontel.

Adaptations[edit]

The play has been adapted into films on two occasions: a 1938 French film The Train for Venice featuring a number of the original stage cast and a 1941 Hollywood remake My Life with Caroline starring Ronald Colman and Anna Lee, with the setting switched from Paris to America.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Goble p.39

Bibliography[edit]

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Gauteur, Claude. À propos de Louis Verneuil (1893-1952). Séguier, 2007.