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The Merry Widow
''The Merry Widow'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to ...
'' is an operetta by Franz Lehár.
The Merry Widow may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Adaptations of Lehár's operetta
Ballet
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''The Merry Widow'' (ballet), an adaptation of the operetta
Films
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''The Merry Widow'' (1918 film), a Hungarian silent film directed by Michael Curtiz
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''The Merry Widow'' (1925 film), a silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert
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''The Merry Widow'' (1934 film) directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald
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''The Merry Widow'' (1952 film), directed by Curtis Bernhardt
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''The Merry Widow'' (1962 film), Austrian film directed by Werner Jacobs
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''The Merry Widow'' (2007 film), a French comedy film
Other arts, entertainment, and media
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''The Merry Widow'' (TV series), a French television series which uses the music from the operetta, but not the plot
* Thee Merry Widows, a
psychobilly
Psychobilly is a rock music fusion genre that fuses elements of rockabilly and punk rock. It's been defined as "loud frantic rockabilly music", it has also been said that it "takes the traditional countrified rock style known as rockabilly, ram ...
band
People
* Mary Elizabeth Wilson (1889-1963), also known as the
Merry widow of Windy Nook
Mary Elizabeth Wilson (''née'' Cassidy; 1889–1962), also known as The Merry Widow of Windy Nook, was an English murderer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was commuted to a prison sent ...
Other uses
* Merry widow, a type of
corselet
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Merry Widows of Joe Cain
The Mardi Gras mystic society of Cain’s Merry Widows (a women’s mystic society) was founded in 1974 in Mobile, Alabama, home of the first Mardi Gras in America (1703).
"History timeline of Mardi Gras" (events),
Museum of Mobile, 2007, we ...
, Mardi Gras women's mystic society in Mobile, Alabama
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Widow
A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died.
Terminology
The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed ''widowhood''. An archaic term for a widow is "relict," literally "someone left over". This word can ...
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