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Finian's Rainbow (1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular ...
Mar 15, 2017 · 26. Astaire invited Coppola to a popular new musical one time when they were both in New York City because the aging performer didn’t quite understand it and he wanted a younger person’s take ...
A musical morality tale about prejudice directed by FRANCIS FORD COPOLLA and starring FRED ASTAIRE. ASTAIRE plays an Irishman who's moved to a small southern town. His plan is to bury a leprechaun's pot of gold that he's brought with him - so that it will grow faster. But his plans go awry when his daughter makes the wrong wish while ASTAIRE stands over the magical pot! MPAA Rating: G (c ...
7/10. "Something Real, Something Sort Of Grandish". bkoganbing 17 December 2008. It took 20 years for one of post World War II Broadway's biggest hits to finally come to the screen. Finian's Rainbow ran for 725 performances in the 1947-48 season on Broadway and made a star out of David Wayne as Og the Leprechaun.
Overview. An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a struggling farmer and an African American community facing persecution from a bigoted politician. Francis Ford Coppola. Director. Fred Saidy.
Finian's Rainbow (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Look To The Rainbow Petula Clark sings the Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg tune, as she and Fred Astaire (playing her Irish father) traverse the United States, in Francis Coppola's charming, if geographically incoherent, opening credit sequence, from Finian's Rainbow, 1968.
