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| The Great Waltz | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Julien Duvivier Victor Fleming (uncredited) Josef von Sternberg (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Bernard H. Hyman |
| Written by | Gottfried Reinhardt (story) Samuel Hoffenstein Walter Reisch Vicki Baum (story, uncredited) |
| Starring | Fernand Gravet Luise Rainer Miliza Korjus |
| Music by | Arthur Gutmann Dimitri Tiomkin Paul Marquardt |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Edited by | Tom Held |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| November 4, 1938 | |
Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,260,000[1] |
| Box office | $2,422,000[1] |
The Great Waltz is a 1938 Americanbiographical film based very loosely on the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet (Gravey), and Miliza Korjus. Rainer received top billing at the producer's insistence, but her role is comparatively minor as Strauss' wife, Poldi Vogelhuber. It was the only starring role for Korjus, who was a famous operasoprano and played one in the film.
Joseph Ruttenberg won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Korjus was nominated for Supporting Actress, and Tom Held for Film Editing.The film was popular in Australia, and was distributed largely throughout Sydney and Melbourne for two years after its initial release.
The film has no connection with the 1934 Broadway play The Great Waltz.[2]
Plot summary[edit]
The highly fictionalised story sees 'Schani' dismissed from his job in a bank. He puts together a group of unemployed musicians who wangle a performance at Dommayer's cafe. The audience is minimal, but when two opera singers, Carla Donner (Miliza Korjus) and Fritz Schiller (George Houston), visit whilst their carriage is being repaired, the music attracts a wider audience.
Strauss is caught up in a student protest; he and Carla Donner avoid arrest and escape to the Vienna Woods, where he is inspired to create the waltz 'Tales from the Vienna Woods'.
Carla asks Strauss for some music to sing at an aristocratic soiree, and this leads to the composer receiving a publishing contract. He's on his way, and he can now marry Poldi Vogelhuber, his sweetheart. But the closeness of Strauss and Carla Donner, during rehearsals of operettas, attracts comment, not least from Count Hohenfried, Donner's admirer.
Poldi remains loyal to Strauss, and the marriage is a long one. He is received by the Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria (whom he unknowingly insulted in the aftermath of the student protests), and the two stand before cheering crowds on the balcony of Schönbrunn.
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Cast[edit]
- Luise Rainer as Poldi Vogelhuber
- Fernand Gravet as Johann Strauss II
- Miliza Korjus as Carla Donner
- Hugh Herbert as Hofbauer
- Lionel Atwill as Count Hohenfried
- Curt Bois as Kienzl
- Al Shean as Cellist
- Minna Gombell as Mrs. Hofbauer
- Alma Kruger as Mrs. Strauss
- Greta Meyer as Mrs. Vogelhuber
- Bert Roachas Vogelhuber
- Henry Hull as Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Sig Rumann as Wertheimer
- George Houston as Schiller
- Herman Bing as Dommayer
- Christian Rub as Coachman
- Frank Mayo as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
- Larry Steers as Man in Uniform (uncredited)
Box office[edit]
According to MGM records, the film earned $918,000 in the US and Canada, and $1,504,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $724,000.[1]
Re-make[edit]
The film was re-made in 1972, with Horst Buchholz playing Strauss, alongside Mary Costa, Nigel Patrick, and Yvonne Mitchell.
References[edit]
- ^ abcThe Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN0-634-00765-3 page 85
External links[edit]
The Great Waltz Mac Os X
- The Great Waltz at the TCM Movie Database
- The Great Waltz at IMDb
- The Great Waltz at AllMovie
- The Great Waltz at the American Film Institute Catalog
- 1972 remake: The Great Waltz at IMDb