The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (film)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo is a 1935 American romantic comedy film made by 20th Century Fox.
It was directed by Stephen Roberts, and starred Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, and Colin Clive.
The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and Howard Smith, based on a play by Ilya Surgutchoff and Frederick Albert Swan.
The film was inspired by the song of the same name popularised by Charles Coborn.
Charles Wells (gambler)
Charles De Ville Wells( 1841–1922) is one of the men who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, in a series of successful gambles in 1891, made famous by the song" The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo".
Subsequently, he was often referred to, especially in the press, as" Monte Carlo Wells".
Stephen Roberts (director)
Stephen Roberts (23 November 1895 – 17 July 1936) was an American film director.
He directed 105 films between 1923 and 1936.
He was born in Summersville, West Virginia, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack.
Charles Coborn
Colin Whitton McCallum (4 August 1852 – 23 November 1945), known by his stage name Charles Coborn, was a British music hall singer and comedian.
In a long career, Coborn was known largely for two comic songs: "Two Lovely Black Eyes", and "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo."
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo may refer to:
Revenge at Monte Carlo
Revenge at Monte Carlo is a 1933 American mystery film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring June Collyer, José Crespo and Wheeler Oakman.
It is also known by the alternative title of Mystery at Monte Carlo.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Palmentola.
A separate Spanish- language version" Dos noches" was also produced.
Joseph Jagger
Joseph Hobson Jagger (2 September 1830 – 25 April 1892) was an English textile industry businessman from Yorkshire, who in around 1881 is said to have "broken the bank at Monte Carlo" by identifying and exploiting biases in the wheels of the roulette tables there.
He used his winnings to buy property in Bradford.
In 2018 he was the subject of a biography by his great-great niece Anne Fletcher.
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (song)
" The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" is a popular British music hall song of the 19th century, written in 1891 or 1892 by Fred Gilbert( Frederick Younge Gilbert, 1850- 1903), a theatrical agent who had begun to write comic songs as a sideline some twenty years previously.
The song was popularised by singer and comedian Charles Coborn, and quickly became a staple of his act, performed on tour in different languages throughout the world.
Coborn confirmed that Gilbert's inspiration was the gambler and confidence trickster Charles Wells.
Wells was reported to have won one- and- a- half million francs at the Monte Carlo casino, using the profits from previous fraud.
However, others suggested as the model include Joseph Jagger( see Men who broke the bank at Monte Carlo) and Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, father of famed art historian Kenneth Clark.
Coborn writes that he was acquainted with Gilbert, and it is thus likely that his account is correct.
Coborn claims in his 1928 autobiography that to the best of his recollection he first sang the song in' the latter part of 1891.'
An advertisement in a London newspaper suggests, however, that he first performed it in public in mid-February 1892.
The song remained popular from the 1890s until the late 1940s, and is still referenced in popular culture today.
Songwriter Fred Gilbert never achieved comparable success with any subsequent composition.
In 1898 he moved to the coastal village of Sandgate, Kent, after contracting tuberculosis.
He died there, or nearby, in 1903.
( Some published works give his place of death as Eltham, south- east London, but this is an error.
The General Register Office index to deaths shows his place of death to be in the former registration district of" Elham", Kent, in which Sandgate was situated).
Upon his death his estate was valued at £ 8. Financier George Soros was called" The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" in 1992, following the infamous Black Wednesday which saw Britain's exit from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
Charles Coborn( then aged 82) performs the song in both English and French in the 1934 British film" Say It With Flowers".
The song title inspired the 1935 US romantic comedy" The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo".
Although the song appears in the film, the narrative bears little relation to either the song or to the story of Charles Wells.
The film and song were involved in the copyright case" Francis, Day& Hunter Ltd v Twentieth Century Fox Corp.
The song appears in Booth Tarkington's 1918 novel" The Magnificent Ambersons", as well as in Orson Welles' 1942 film adaptation.
In the 1962 film" Lawrence of Arabia", Lawrence( Peter O' Toole) sings the tune while riding across the desert to the camp of Prince Faisal.
A short excerpt is included in the film" The Railway Children".
In Thomas Pynchon's novel" Gravity's Rainbow", Tyrone Slothrop, evidently knowing the song but not having understood the lyrics properly, spends time in Monte Carlo fruitlessly looking for the Bois de Boulogne.
A parody titled" The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy" was written in 1916.
Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album" 101 Gang Songs"( 1961).
The melody of the song is used in the season eleven episode of" American Dad!
The Shrink".
After the lead character, Stan, employs a CIA shrink ray in order to live in a miniature city of his own creation, the character sings" The Man Who Built the World in His Basement".
In the film, in mimicry of his idol Lawrence of Arabia, the android David sings the words of the song's title while he is cutting his own hair in the mirror.
Charles Wells (gambler)
Charles De Ville Wells( 1841–1922) is one of the men who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, in a series of successful gambles in 1891, made famous by the song" The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo".
Subsequently, he was often referred to, especially in the press, as" Monte Carlo Wells".
Sherman Andrus
Sherman Andrus( born June 23, 1942) is an American gospel singer, who is probably best known as the man who broke the" color barrier" by becoming the first African- American lead singer of a mainstream Christian music group( The Imperials).
He has been a very prolific artist who has been involved in one way or another with forty gospel albums to date.

Question: Why did the director of film The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo (Film) die?
Answer: heart attack