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  1. Carousel is a 1956 American drama fantasy musical film based on the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Ferenc Molnár's 1909 non-musical play Liliom. The film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones and was directed by Henry King.

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  2. The musical "Carousel" was adapted from Ferenc Molnar 's 1909 play "Liliom". Instead of the original Budapest setting of Molnar's play, Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) transformed the story's location to a New England fishing village.

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  4. Carousel SynopsisStills from the 1956 FilmACT ONEIn May 1873, a bustling carnival enlivens a small fishing village on the rocky New England coastline. In a silent prologue (“The Carousel Waltz”), Billy Bigelow, a carousel barker, meets Julie Jordan, who is there with her friend Carrie Pipperidge.

  5. Carousel (1956) In this downbeat, serious, semi-bleak and haunting yet ambitious Henry King-directed 20th Century Fox film in Cinemascope 55 - a dramatic, romantic-fantasy musical with a flawed, misogynistic central character in a doomed and troubled marriage.

  6. Overview. Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met.

  7. Carousel is a 1956 American drama fantasy musical film based on the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Ferenc Molnár 's 1909 non-musical play Liliom . The film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones and was directed by Henry King. Contents. Plot. Cast. Production. Differences from stage production

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