Maurice Chevalier and Georgette Anys would be reunited in the 1962 romance Jessica, while she and Charles Boyer would both appear in the 1963 comedy Love Is a Ball.

MGM bought the rights to Pagnol's Marius and Fanny, which they combined in a highly bowdlerized version called Port of Seven Seas (1938). Wallace Beery played Cesar, with Maureen O'Sullivan as the Fanny character (her name was changed to Madelon), Frank Morgan as Panisse and John Beal as Marius. Preston Sturges wrote the script, with James Whale directing.

Marcel Pagnol's trilogy would be remade for French television in 2000, while Marius would turn up in a new German television version a year later.

Fanny is scheduled for DVD release in June 2008. The package will include a newsreel and film previews from 1961.

Fanny would inspire an Italian remake in 1933 and a 1959 Belgian television drama.

Marius would be remade in Japan in 1942 and 1949.

by Frank Miller