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The play was a failure in Hungary when it was staged there in [[1909]], but not when it was staged on [[Broadway]] in English ([[1921]]), starring [[Joseph Schildkraut]] and [[Eva Le Gallienne]]. They also starred in the first revival, in 1932. In 1940, a second revival, starring [[Burgess Meredith]] and [[Ingrid Bergman]], played New York. In 1945, [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] wrote ''[[Carousel]]'', an Americanized musical adaptation, which became one of the great classics of [[musical theatre]].

''Liliom'' has been filmed several times. The most notable non-musical film version was the 1934 French film, directed by [[Fritz Lang]] and starring [[Charles Boyer]] and [[Madeline Ozeray]]. ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' was made into a [[DeLuxe Color]] film by 20th-Century Fox in 1956, starring [[Gordon MacRae]] and [[Shirley Jones]]. ItThe film failed to attract wide public attention at the time, although its [[soundtrack album]] was a best-seller and remains so to this day, but the film has since taken its rightful place as one of the Rodgers and Hammerstein film classics.

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