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| SONG OF LOVE (1947) |
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
B&W, 119 minutes
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CAST
Clara Wieck Schumann: Katharine Hepburn
Robert Schumann: Paul Henreid
Johannes Brahms: Robert Walker
Franz Liszt: Henry Daniell
Professor Wieck: Leo G. Carroll
Bertha: Else Janssen
Julie: Gigi Perreau
Felix: "Tinker" Furlong
Marie: Ann Carter
Eugenie: Janine Perreau
Ludwig: Jimmie Hunt
Ferdinand: Anthony Sydes
Elsie: Eilene Janssen
Dr. Hoffman: Roman Bohnen
Haslinger: Ludwig Stossel
Princess Valerie Hohenfels: Tala Birell
Judge: Kurt Katch
King Albert: Henry Stephenson
Reinecke: Konstanin Shayne
Court Officer: Byron Foulger
Lady in Box: Josephine Whittell
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CREDITS
Director: Clarence Brown
Producer: Clarence Brown
Scenarists: Ivan Tors, Irmgard Von Cube, Allen Vincent, Robert Ardrey
Based on the Play by: Bernard Schubert, Mario Silva
Photographer: Harry Stradling
Art Director: Cedric Gibbons
Associate Art Director: Hans Peters
Set Decorator: Edwin B. Willis
Editor: Robert J. Kern
Sound Recorder: Douglas Shearer
Musical Score: Bronislau Kaper
Piano Recordings: Artur Rubinstein
Orchestra: MGM Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: William Steinberg
Costume Supervision: Irene
Women's Costumer: Walter Plunkett
Men's Costumer: Valles
Makeup Artist: Jack Dawn
Hair Stylist: Sydney Guilaroff
Chorus: St. Luke's Boy Choir
Musical Advisor: Laura Dubman
Special Effects: Warren Newcombe
Assistant Director: Al Raboch
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SYNOPSIS
Despite their poverty and her parents' objections, strong-willed Clara Wieck, a brilliant pianist, weds a struggling and unappreciated composer, Robert Schumann. After several difficult years, she retires to devote her entire life to him and their seven children. The young Johannes Brahms comes to live and study with the Schumanns and ultimately falls in love with Clara.
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CRITIQUES
"Miss Hepburn portrays Clara with skill and feeling. She is fascinating to watch at the piano, using the clawlike 19th Century style; her 'reactions' to the men's music, in various dramatic contexts, are the backbone of the picture....The lives and the music are somewhat distorted, as is usual - and never entirely forgivable - in such pictures. But this is how Brahms and the Schumanns might very possibly have acted if they had realized that later on they would break into the movies."
- Time, 1947
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Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn
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Leo G. Carroll, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid
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Katharine Hepburn
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On the set: Katharine Hepburn with Artur Rubenstein and his wife
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