Broadway's Turkish Delight

February / March, 1955

Josh Logan's "Fanny" gets an exciting assist from Nejla Ates'There Are A Number of very good reasons why Fanny is the big musical hit of the Broadway season. It is an adaptation by S.N. Behrman and Joshua Logan of Pagnol's French film trilogy and tells the story of a Marseilles waterfront girl whose lover goes off to sea in search of adventure. When it becomes apparent that the girl is pregnant, a middle-aged widower marries her and accepts the child as his own. It is a warm, poignant...