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The Merry Widow (1952 film)
1952 film by Curtis Bernhardt
The Merry Widow is a 1952 American film adaptation of the 1905 operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár.
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It starred Lana Turner (whose singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin) and Fernando Lamas.
The film received two Oscar nominations: for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B.
Willis, Arthur Krams) and Best Costume Design, Color.[3]Paul Francis Webster provided revised lyrics for a greatly abridged score of the operetta conducted by Jay Blackton.
Plot
At a New Year's Eve party in 1899, the King of Marshovia, a small European country with financial difficulty, dispatches Marshovia's ambassador to the United States to invite a young, rich widow, Crystal Radek, to Marshovia for the unveiling of a statue in honor of her deceased husband, Charlie, a Marshovian native.
The king's underlying reason is to access her wealth for the nation's coffers; and, he sends o