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Director:
Edmund Goulding
Writers:
Basil Dean (play)
Margaret Kennedy (novel) (play)
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Release Date:
23 October 1944 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Drama | Music | Romance more
Tagline:
He tried to divide his heart and broke theirs.
Plot:
Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Margaret Kennedy's first novel, Korngold's best music more (11 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
112 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Alfred Hitchcock was considered for directing this film. Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville was one of the writers of The Constant Nymph (1928) 1928 version. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Between Two Worlds: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2001) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Tomorrow more

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Margaret Kennedy's first novel, Korngold's best music, 30 March 2001
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Author: bob garrett (rrgjmg@gateway.net) from West Chester, pa

At the end of WWI Margaret Kennedy, a rather plain young girl, was seen sitting in the Oxford University library looking off into the distance thinking about what her first novel should be about. She rather liked the music of Gustav Holst whose "The Planets" had catapulted his name from complete anonymity to recent fame. She thought that she could write that no Englishman would believe that someone born in Hammersmith could ever be a famous composer; she decided to call him Albert Sanger. The novel was a sellout in the 1920's, and it was filmed three times, the 1943 version being arguably the best. "Sanger's Circus", his collection of children, wives, and mistresses (in sequence, thankfully), which served as a center for avant garde musical folk near Innsbruck, was well depicted in the film. Lewis Dodd, a struggling young composer, talented, self-absorbed to the point of ignoring everything but his music, was well played. Joan Fontaine, regrettably, was hardly fourteen when she tackled the role of Tessa, though she did make a rather toothsome young girl. Korngold's music was simple and effective, though it bore his mark of romantic Vienna rather more than the atonal modernism that Dodd would very likely have employed at that time. The tragedy of Tessa's love and her death due to a locked window she struggled with made this story hard to forget. Eric Korngold probably made more money in his Hollywood years than did all the classical composers who preceded him, and this was his most appealing production.

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