Steven warner actor the little prince
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The Little Prince (1974 film)
1974 film bygd Stanley Donen
The Little Prince is a 1974 British-American sci-fifantasy-musical rulle with screenplay and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music bygd Frederick Loewe, arranged and orchestrated bygd Angela Morley. It was both directed and produced by Stanley Donen and based on the 1943 classic children-adult's novella, The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), bygd the writer, poet and aviator Count Antoine dem Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared nära the end of the Second World War some 15 months after his fable was first published.
Background
[edit]The original Little Prince was first published in 1943, and is the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Count Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). It is a poetic tale self-illustrated in watercolours in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a ung prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes societal criticism,
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As an actor it is rare to have long stretches of employment, especially in theater. Television actors can certainly be a part of a successful show for years on end and same goes for movie franchises where roles can come back film after film. Unfortunately, for most of us, it is simply job to job; we work hard to land a gig, the show ends, and then we work hard to book the next one.
For Steven Warner, he scored the biggest role in his life…at the age of seven. So what was next for him? In part two of our conversation we explore the years after The Little Prince and how his life and career took a dramatic turn. It’s a story of persistence and tenacity but also a recognition of the realities we face as actors and how it’s as much a personal journey as an artistic one.
- Listen to Part 1 of my conversation with Steven Warner.
- Watch Holiday on Ice with Steven Warner from 1985, performing Disco
- A Movie Star at 8, but He'd Much Rather Be an Ice Skater - New York Times
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Steven Warner was only 8 years old when he starred in the 1974 adaptation of The Little Prince opposite legends like Gene Wilder and Bob Fosse. 48 years later, he still has fond memories of working on the Paramount movie, even though the film is largely remembered as a commercial and critical flop.
Some of his most vivid memories of making the film are watching Fosse, the director of Cabaret, dancing in character as the Snake. Warner was too young to realize who Fosse was at the time, but he was “mesmerized.”
Warner tells the story on the latest episode of The Industry podcast, which is a crossover episode with Patrick Oliver Jones’ Why I’ll Never Make It podcast. The episode is a deep-dive into the 1974 version of The Little Prince and why — despite having Wilder, musical numbers by acclaimed Broadway team Lerner and Loewe, a dance sequence starring Fosse, and Stanley Donen as the director — it hasn’t been remembered so fondly by audiences