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Director:
Clarence Brown
Writers:
Ivan Tors (writer) and
Irma von Cube (writer) ...
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Release Date:
9 October 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Music | Romance more
Plot:
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
A musical feast for the ears...semi-successful as biography... more

Cast

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Katharine Hepburn ... Clara Wieck Schumann

Paul Henreid ... Robert Schumann
Robert Walker ... Johannes Brahms
Henry Daniell ... Franz Liszt
Leo G. Carroll ... Professor Wieck
Elsa Janssen ... Bertha (as Else Janssen)
Gigi Perreau ... Julie
'Tinker' Furlong ... Felix
Ann Carter ... Marie
Janine Perreau ... Eugenie
Jimmy Hunt ... Ludwig
Anthony Sydes ... Ferdinand
Eilene Janssen ... Elise
Roman Bohnen ... Dr. Hoffman
Ludwig Stössel ... Haslinger (as Ludwig Stossel)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Love Story (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
Israel:115 min | Argentina:118 min | USA:119 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

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Movie Connections:
Edited into The Schumann Story (1950) more
Soundtrack:
Traumerai more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
A musical feast for the ears...semi-successful as biography..., 19 November 2007
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Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

SONG OF LOVE is a tastefully romanticized biography of the Schumanns (Clara and Robert), as portrayed by KATHARINE HEPBURN and PAUL HENRIED, in a glossy tribute to their classical music. Their life changes when they take in a boarder/student by the name of Brahms, ROBERT WALKER, who immediately falls in love with Clara.

While she makes a successful career as a pianist, her husband is less successful in pursuing his serious work as a composer. The story chronicles the highs and lows of their marriage as they struggle to raise seven or eight children while juggling their professional lives. Whether the romantic angle with Brahms falling deeply in love with Clara is accurate or not, I don't know. I'll have to read more about them to get the full picture, but it makes for an interesting romantic drama with lots of classical music, courtesy of Rubenstein at the piano.

An unusual film for Katharine Hepburn, who does beautifully at the keyboard looking as though she's really playing the instrument, as well as Henry Daniell as Franz Liszt who is quite adept at the fingering.

Good performances throughout, but I suspect that it's a film for classical music lovers only.

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