Ferenc Molnár, Americanized to Franz Molnar (1878-1952), was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist who emigrated to the United States to escape persecution of Hungarian Jews by German authorities during World War II. Molnár's most popular plays are Liliom, later adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel; The Guardsman and the film of the same name (1931); and The Swan, which was Grace Kelly's next-to-last movie.
