Other Versions
McCarthy's play premiered on Broadway in 1901 and was revived five times up through 1916. It was first adapted in 1920 as a silent film.
In 1925, composer Rudolf Friml and librettists Brian Hooker and W.H. Post turned it into a successful Broadway operetta, The Vagabond King, which featured the songs "Only a Rose", "Some Day", and "Song of the Vagabonds". The operetta was filmed twice - in 1930, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Dennis King and in 1956, directed by Michael Curtiz. Both film versions used only a little of Friml's original score.
The François Villon story was also filmed in 1927 under the title The Beloved Rogue, with John Barrymore in the lead role,.
The film was adapted as a radio play on Lux Radio Theater October 16, 1939 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. Academy Award Theater adapted it on May 11, 1946 with Colman reprising his part.
There is no connection, apart from the title, between the story and the comic opera by Adolphe Adam called "Si j'étais roi" (English: If I Were King).
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