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5.3/10   37 votes
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Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Writers:
Ruth Goode (writer)
Sol Hurok (writer)
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Release Date:
26 January 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
Musical
Tagline:
The greatest treasure of entertainment in your lifetime!
User Comments:
Schmaltzy movie, golden music more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
David Wayne ... Sol Hurok
Ezio Pinza ... Feodor Chaliapin
Roberta Peters ... Elsa Valdine

Anne Bancroft ... Emma Hurok
Tamara Toumanova ... Anna Pavlova
Isaac Stern ... Eugene Ysaye
Byron Palmer ... Gregory Lawrence
Jan Peerce ... Gregory Lawrence (singing voice)
Oskar Karlweis ... Benjamin Golder
Mikhail Rasumny ... Nicolai
Steven Geray ... Prager
Walter Woolf King ... Gritti
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Additional Details

Runtime:
109 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #15936) | Sweden:Btl

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Featured in The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century (1998) (V) more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
Schmaltzy movie, golden music, 8 December 1999
7/10
Author: jamwood from Eugene, Oregon

The movie itself is pure schmaltz (exemplified by tenor Jan Peerce's voice emanating from the face of a "Hollywoodier" actor), but the music is a treasure trove. The great Pinza portraying the great Chaliapin! One legend playing another? Not to mention Isaac Stern as Ysaye, and Toumanova as Pavlova. Wow! I know my Moussorgsky, and Pinza's extremely rare outing in the Russian original of "Boris" is impeccable. Best of all, I have heard a dozen versions of the final trio from Gounod's "Faust," including the thunderous Christoff-Gedda-de los Angeles rendition, but the Pinza-Peerce-Peters tour de force in this movie leaves me gasping for air. A travesty that no video is available. Someone on the Internet offers a print for $400+, but I neglected to bookmark and cannot relocate the source.

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