''Song of My Heart'' is a 1948 American
historical
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drama film
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directed by
Benjamin Glazer
Benjamin Glazer (May 7, 1887 – March 18, 1956) was a screenwriter, producer, foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He made the first translation of Ferenc Molnár's play ''Liliom'' into English in 1921. H ...
and starring
Frank Sundström
Frank Sundström (16 January 1912 – 8 November 1993) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 30 films and television shows between 1933 and 1989. In 1948 he played the lead in the American film ''Song of My Heart''.
Selected filmog ...
,
Audrey Long
Audrey Gwendoline Long (April 14, 1922 – September 19, 2014) was an American stage and screen actress of English descent, who performed mainly in low-budget films in the 1940s and early 1950s. Some of her more notable film performances are in '' ...
and
Cedric Hardwicke
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of Shakespeare and Shaw, and ...
. It is a highly fictionalised
biopic
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of the nineteenth century Russian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...
.
[Wierzbicki p.87] It was distributed by
Allied Artists.
Cast
References
Bibliography
* James Wierzbicki. ''Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties''. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
External links
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1948 films
1940s biographical drama films
1940s musical drama films
American biographical drama films
American musical drama 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
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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