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| BREAK OF HEARTS (1935) |
An RKO Radio Picture
B&W, 80 minutes
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CAST
Constance Dane: Katharine Hepburn
Franz Roberti: Charles Boyer
Johnny Lawrence: John Beal
Prof. Talma: Jean Hersholt
Marx: Sam Hardy
Miss Wilson: Inez Courtney
Sylvia: Helene Millard
Pazzini: Ferdinand Gottschalk
Elise: Susan Fleming
Schubert: Lee Kohlmar
Didi Smith-Lennox: Jean Howard
Phyllis: Anne Grey
and Inez Palange, Jason Robards, Egon Brecher, and Dick Elliott
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CREDITS
Director: Philip Moeller
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Scenarists: Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman, Anthony Veiller
Based on a story by: Lester Cohen
Photographer: Robert De Grasse
Art Director: Van Nest Polglase
Associate Art Director: Carroll Clark
Editor: William Hamilton
Sound Recorder: John Tribby
Musical Score: Max Steiner
Costumer: Bernard Newman
Makeup Artist: Mel Burns
Assistant Director: Edward Killy
Associate Editor: Jane Loring
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SYNOPSIS
The passionate Franz Roberti, a rich and eminent musical conductor, marries Constance Dane, an aspiring, yet poor and unknown composer. A blissful relationship exists for a short period until Constance discovers that Roberti is seeing another woman. She leaves him, only to be pursued by a clean-cut young man named Johnny Lawrence, who wants to take her away from it all.
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CRITIQUES
"Still performing as the heroine of Little Women, Miss Hepburn makes it clear that unless her employers see fit to restore her to roles in keeping with her mannerisms, these will presently annoy cinemaddicts into forgetting that she is really an actress of great promise and considerable style."
- Time, 1935
"The two actors are talented enough to keep some of our interest even in a story of this kind: indeed, Miss Hepburn always makes her young women quite horrifyingly lifelike with their girlish intuitions, their intensity, their ideals which destroy the edge of human pleasure."
- Graham Greene, The Spectator, September 13, 1935
"Katharine Hepburn as a tender, guileless young composer, and Charles Boyer as a worldly, philandering symphony conductor. They marry, she leaves him in disillusionment, he drinks and goes to the dogs, she returns to save him. It's dreadful, turgid stuff, yet these two make something of it anyway. She's so intuitive and girlish and wistful that you want to conk her one, but she's so flamingly intense that you find yourself surrendering."
- Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
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HOME VIDEO AVAILABILITY
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Region 2:
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Lobby card
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Lobby card
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Poster
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Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer
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Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer
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Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer
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Charles Boyer, Katharine Hepburn
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On the set: Charles Boyer, Katharine Hepburn
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