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- The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando. It satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945. John Patrick adapted the screenplay from his own Pulitzer-Prize - and Tony Award -winning Broadway play of 1953.
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The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando. It satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945. John Patrick adapted the screenplay from his own Pulitzer-Prize- and Tony Award-winning Broadway play of 1953.
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1953 play written by John Patrick adapted from the 1951 novel by Vern Sneider. The play was later adapted for film in 1956, and the 1970 Broadway musical Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. The play opened on Broadway in October 1953.
- Vern Sneider
- 1951
The film is The Teahouse of the August Moon, an adaptation of the long-running Broadway play which, although adapted from a novel, won the Pulitizer Prize for John Patrick, a veteran screenwriter. Glenn Ford says it's one of his favorite movies.
- Daniel Mann, Al Jennings, William Shanks
- Marlon Brando
The Teahouse of the August Moon was adapted to the screen by John Patrick in a 1956 film, directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando. The Teahouse of the August Moon was adapted to television by John Patrick in a 1962 Broadcast of “Hallmark Hall of Fame,” by NBC.
With Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert. In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Daniel Mann
- 1956-12
Teahouse of the August Moon, comedy in three acts by American playwright John Patrick, produced in 1953. Patrick satirized American good intentions in this lighthearted examination of an attempt by the military forces to Americanize a foreign culture.
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) was an acclaimed adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick, who also wrote the screenplay. The film, which offered a comedic look at clashing cultures, starred Marlon Brando as the resourceful Japanese translator Sakini, who works… Read More.
