Giacomo Puccini adapted David Belasco's play as an opera, La fanciulla del West, which opened in New York in 1910. It's still in the repertoire of major opera companies throughout the world.
This film's first documented telecast took place in Seattle Thursday 30 May 1957 on KING (Channel 5); it first aired in Portland OR 22 June 1957 on KGW (Channel 8), in Los Angeles 30 August 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11), in Norfolk VA 31 October 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3), in both Hartford CT and Charlotte NC 1 December 1957 on WHCT (Channel 18) and on WBTV (Channel 3), in Indianapolis 13 December 1957 on WLW-I (Channel 13), in New York City 14 December 1957 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Cincinnati 5 April 1958 on WLW-T (Channel 5), in Philadelphia 2 May 1958 on WFIL (Channel 6) and, finally, in San Francisco 7 June 1959 on KGO (Channel 7), and in Chicago 23 December 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2).
Had Jeanette MacDonald agreed to it, she and Nelson Eddy might have been paired in a Robin Hood operetta. But MGM scrapped the idea when Warner Bros. beat them to the punch with The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
It was rumored that Joan Crawford had wanted to play the female lead, hoping to show off her singing abilities.
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By what name was The Girl of the Golden West (1938) officially released in India in English?
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