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Why did Warner Brothers hire Francis Ford Coppola to direct Finian’s Rainbow?

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Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background. — Francis Ford Coppola American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola won the Oscar for best director for *The Godfather: Part II* (1974).

Warner Brothers hired Francis Ford Coppola to direct the big-budget musical Finian’s Rainbow (1968) because they were impressed by his work on the 1966 coming-of-age film You’re a Big Boy Now.1