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Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane, produced by Lee Sabinson. The original 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances, while a film version was released in 1968 and several revivals have followed.
Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 American [1] musical fantasy film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and adapted by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy from the 1947 stage musical of the same name. It stars Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, and Tommy Steele.
An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician. Director. Francis Ford Coppola.
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 souther...
Feisty Irishman Finian McLonergan (Fred Astaire) and his faithful daughter, Sharon (Petula Clark), bearing a pot of gold stolen from the leprechaun Og (Tommy Steele), settle in the...
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Meanwhile, the bigoted Senator Billboard Rawkins, in an effort to stop progress in his state in the form of a new dam and hydroelectric system, plans to take the remaining parcel of land needed to...
Finian's Rainbow. Summaries. An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.
Reviews. Finian’s Rainbow. Music. 141 minutes ‧ 1968. Roger Ebert. October 14, 1968. 4 min read. “Finian’s Rainbow” is the best of the recent roadshow musicals, perhaps because it’s the first to cope successfully with the longer roadshow form.
A leprechaun follows the Irishman who stole his pot of gold to the southern United States in (1968), starring Fred Astaire, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The unforgettable saga of the Corleone family played out in trilogy. A surveillance expert became a victim of his own voyeurism in (1974).
As Sharon (Petula Clark) falls for the community’s returning prodigal son (Don Francks), Finian (Fred Astaire) deals with a leprechaun (Tommy Steele) that desperately needs the pot of gold he “borrowed” while a mute dancing girl catches the leprechaun’s eye (Barbara Hancock).
