Fanny (Joshua Logan; Warners) is a waif who has knocked around for almost as long as Little Orphan Annie; the difference is that now and then she changes her dress. French Filmmaker Marcel Pagnol
(The Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter) first told his sentimental fable of the Marseilles waterfront as a trio of plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become an overweight Broadway musical. Inexplicably encouraged, Director Josh Logan set about making a new screen...
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