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2 unusual facts about The Devil to Pay


The Devil to Pay

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, a 1956 translation of the title of a novel from Portuguese -- Grande Sertão: Veredas

The Devil to Pay!

Goldwyn also replaced the original director Irving Cummings after two weeks because he was unhappy with the standard of production.



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Die verwandelten Weiber

The libretto was by Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804) based on the ballad opera The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos'd by Charles Coffey (1731), and an opéra comique text by Michel-Jean Sedaine using the same material.

John Mottley

Mottley was joint author with Charles Coffey of the comic opera, ‘The Devil to pay, or the Wives Metamorphosed,’ produced at Drury Lane on 6 August 1731, and frequently revived.

Thomas Jevon

Various versions with added music appeared later, and Charles Coffey used it as the basis of his opera The Devil to Pay in 1731.