About

Known credits:
11
Birthday:
1894-06-04
Place of birth:
Arad, Austria-Hungary [now Romania]
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Gabriel Pascal

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 

Gabriel Pascal (4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian film producer and director.

Born 1894 in Arad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro–Hungarian Empire, Pascal was the first film producer to bring the plays of George Bernard Shaw successfully to the screen. His most famous production was Pygmalion, for which Pascal himself received an Academy Award nomination as its producer. Pygmalion was later adapted by Lerner and Loewe into the musical My Fair Lady. Pascal had tried to convince Shaw to let Pygmalion be turned into a musical, but the outraged Shaw explicitly forbade it, having had a bad experience with the operetta The Chocolate Soldier, based on Shaw's Arms and the Man. Pascal died in 1954, and it was not until 1956 that Pygmalion became My Fair Lady.

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Known for

Directing
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra Directing Director 59
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1941 Major Barbara Directing Director 59
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Production
2024 Interstate Production Unit Manager 58
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1952 Androcles and the Lion Production Producer 58
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1945 Caesar and Cleopatra Production Producer 59
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1941 Major Barbara Production Producer 59
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1939 Pygmalion Production Producer 61
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1936 Cafe Mascot Production Producer N/A
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1936 Reasonable Doubt Production Producer N/A
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1932 The Living Dead Production Producer 59
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1931 The Captain from Köpenick Production Producer 59
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