Ferenc Molnár (b. Budapest, January 12, 1878; d. New York City, April 1, 1952) was one of the greatest Hungarian dramatists and novelists of the 20th century. As a Jew, he emigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution in Hungary during World War II. Budapest (pronounced or ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ...

His far most popular work is the novel The Paul Street Boys (appeared under the same title in English) about two rivalling boy gangs in Budapest, which is still counted as a cult novel in Hungary on solidarity and self-sacrifice. It was made into film several times, of which the most known is a Hungarian-U.S. cooperation in 1969 (see [1]) and it ranked 2nd in the Hungarian version of Big Read in 2005. The Big Read was a 2003 survey carried out by the BBC, with the goal of finding the Nations Best-loved Book, by way of a viewer vote. ...

The most popular works composed by Molnár were the plays Liliom (1909, tr. 1921), later adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel (1945); The Guardsman (1910, tr. 1924), made into a film of the same name (1931); and The Swan (1920, tr. 1922). Play – literature / theatre A play (noun) is a common form of literature, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. ... Rodgers and Hammerstein is the songwriting team consisting of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Rodgers had previously been in a successful partnership with Lorenz Hart (see Rodgers and Hart). ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Rodgers and Hammersteins 1945 stage musical Carousel adapted Ferenc Molnars play Liliom to 1870s New England. ... The Guardsman is a 1931 movie based on the play Testör by Ferenc Molnar and the play Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson. ...