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South Pacific (also known as Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific) is a 2001 American romantic musical television film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of James A. Michener's 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific.
- March 26, 2001
- American Broadcasting Company
Mar 26, 2001 · Comedy Drama Musical. During World War II, love is found between a career Navy nurse (Glenn Close) and an enigmatic French plantation owner (Rade Serbedzija), while a Princeton-educated marine (Harry Connick, Jr.) fights against his own prejudice after falling for a Tonkinese girl (Natalie Mendoza). Director.
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- Richard Pearce
South Pacific (TV Movie 2001) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) of the U.S. Navy falls for middle-aged French plantation owner Emile De Becque (Rossano Brazzi), but recoils upon...
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- Mitzi Gaynor
- Joshua Logan
- South Pacific Enterprises
Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. After graduating from nursing school, 20-something Nellie Forbush (Glenn Close) gets stationed on a tiny island in the South Pacific during World War II.
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- Richard Pearce
- TV-PG
- Glenn Close
SOUTH PACIFIC CONDENSED SYNOPSIS. During World War II, two love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a local French estate owner, Emile.
Adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, based on the novel "Tales of the South Pacific," by James A. Michener, about love and loss on a remote Pacific island during World War II. The story tracks two parallel romances: one between Nellie Forbush, a Navy nurse, and Emile DeBecque, a...