| Marius | |
| Setting: | Marseilles, France |
| Date Of Premiere: | 1929 |
| Original Language: | French |
| Genre: | Drama |
Marius is a 1929 play by the French writer Marcel Pagnol. It takes place in Marseilles, where a young man named Marius working in a café dreams of going to sea, his obsession eventually overcoming his developing romance with Fanny, a local girl.
Two years later a British version Sea Fever by John Van Druten was staged unsuccessfully in the West End.[1] The same year Pagnol wrote a sequel Fanny.
In 1931 the play was turned into a film Marius directed by Alexander Korda for the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures with a screenplay written by Pagnol himself. In 1938 this was remade as an American film Port of Seven Seas by James Whale.[2] In 2013 it was remade by Daniel Auteuil.
An audio cast recording of select scenes, with minor rewritings, was made at the studios Pelouze in Paris in March 1932 and on 2 and 14 December 1933 for Columbia Records by the main cast (Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Raimu, Fernand Charpin, Paul Dullac, Robert Vattier, Henri Vilbert). It was later re-issued on compact disc.[3]