Song of My Heart
{{short description|1948 film directed by Benjamin Glazer}}
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| name = Song of My Heart
| image = Song of My Heart.jpg
| caption =
| director = Benjamin Glazer
| producer = {{ubl|Nat W. Finston|Theodore Reed}}
| writer = {{ubl|Benjamin Glazer|Bernard Schubert}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|Frank Sundström|Audrey Long|Cedric Hardwicke}}
| music = Joseph Nussbaum
| cinematography = {{ubl|Roland Totheroh|Curt Courant (uncredited)}}
| editing = Richard V. Heermance
| studio = Symphony Films
| distributor = Allied Artists Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1948|01|31}}
| runtime = 85 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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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.Wierzbicki p.87 It was distributed by Allied Artists.
Plot
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Cast
{{cast listing|
- 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
- Kate Drain as Nurse
- Lester Sharpe as Nikolai Rubinstein
- Gil Frye as Kolya
- Scott Elliott as Lt. Sanderson
- Gordon B. Clarke as Lt. Julian
- Jimmie Dodd as Pvt. Murphy
- David Leonard as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- John Hamilton as Czar
- William Ruhl as Cesar Cui
- Steve Darrell as Uniformed Aide
- Robert Barron as Alexander Borodin
- Elvira Curci as Housekeeper
- Maurice Cass as Ballet Master
- Grandon Rhodes as Doctor
- William Newell as Doorman
- Leonard Mudie as Conductor
- Lane Chandler as Policeman
- Leonid Snegoff as Manager
- Lewis Howard as Modest Mussorgsky
- Stan Johnson as Captain Weatherley
- Leo Kaye as Mess Sergeant
- Jack George as Priest
- Vernon Cansino as Evans
- Nina Hansen as Sophie's Mother
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References
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Bibliography
- James Wierzbicki. Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0039851}}
Category:1940s biographical drama films
Category:1940s musical drama films
Category:American biographical drama films
Category:American musical drama films
Category:Films with screenplays by Benjamin Glazer
Category:Films set in the 19th century
Category:Films about classical music and musicians
Category:Films about composers
Category:Cultural depictions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:English-language biographical drama films
Category:English-language musical drama films
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