Song of My Heart
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Directed by | Benjamin Glazer |
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Cinematography | Roland Totheroh |
Edited by | Richard V. Heermance |
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Production company | Symphony Films |
Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
Release date | January 31, 1948 |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Song of My Heart is a 1948 American historical drama film directed by Benjamin Glazer and starring Frank Sundström, Audrey Long and Cedric Hardwicke. It is a highly fictionalised biopic of the nineteenth century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.[1]
Cast[]
- Frank Sundström as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Audrey Long as Princess Amalya
- Cedric Hardwicke as Grand Duke
- Mikhail Rasumny as Sergei Ivanov / Stephen Ivanov
- Gale Sherwood as Sophia Mirova
- Serge Krizman as Ivan
- Charles Trowbridge as Jurgensen
- as Nurse
- as Nikolai Rubinstein
- as Kolya
- as Lt. Sanderson
- as Lt. Julian
- Jimmie Dodd as Pvt. Murphy
- as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- John Hamilton as Czar
- William Ruhl as Cesar Cui
- Steve Darrell as Uniformed Aide
- as Alexander Borodin
- as Housekeeper
- Maurice Cass as Ballet Master
- Grandon Rhodes as Doctor
- William Newell as Doorman
- Leonard Mudie as Conductor
- Lane Chandler as Policeman
- as Manager
- as Modest Mussorgsky
- Stan Johnson as Captain Weatherley
- as Mess Sergeant
- Jack George as Priest
- as Evans
- Nina Hansen as Sophie's Mother
References[]
- ^ Wierzbicki p.87
Bibliography[]
- James Wierzbicki. Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1948 films
- 1940s biographical drama films
- 1940s musical drama films
- American biographical drama films
- American musical drama films
- American films
- Films with screenplays by Benjamin Glazer
- Films set in Russia
- Films set in the 19th century
- Films about classical music and musicians
- Films about composers
- Allied Artists films
- Cultural depictions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- American black-and-white films
- 1948 drama films
- Biographical film stubs