'' The Enchanted '' is a 1950 English adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play '' Intermezzo '' written in 1933 by French dramatist

Jean Giraudoux Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work ...

Original productions

''Intermezzo'' was translated into English as ''The Enchanted'' by Maurice Valency, in ''Jean Giraudoux, Four Plays'', vol. 1 (1958), and by Roger Gellert, in ''Jean Giraudoux, Plays'', vol. 2 (1967). '' Intermezzo '' was first performed on 27 February 1933 in Paris at the

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in a production by

Louis Jouvet Jules Eugène Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 – 16 August 1951) was a French actor, theatre director and filmmaker. Early life Jouvet was born in Crozon. He had a stutter as a young man and originally trained as a pharmacist. He recei ...

. Maurice Valency's adaptation ''The Enchanted'' opened at New York's Lyceum Theatre on 18 January 1950 in a production staged by George S. Kaufman, starring Leueen MacGrath,

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