Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "composer"

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A Song to Remember ** (1944, Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Stephen Bekassy, George Coulouris, George Macready, Nina Foch) – Classic Movie Review 4602

Put the 1945 film A Song to Remember on your Chopin Liszt! Cornel Wilde as Frédéric Chopin earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor – his only ever Oscar nomination. Stephen Bekassy co-stars as […]

Nov, 07

Song without End * (1960, Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 4601

The 1960 musical biopic Song without End is a famously awful version of the life of composer Franz Liszt and his scandalous romance with Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein. Dirk Bogarde and Capucine are horribly miscast and […]

Nov, 06

Phantom of the Paradise **** (1974, Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham) – Classic Movie Review 4433

Writer-director Brian De Palma’s technically imaginative 1974 film revision of The Phantom of the Opera updates the horror old story to modern-day America and the pop scene of the early Seventies, turning it into a […]

Sep, 28

Break of Hearts ** (1935, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 3,938

RKO’s 1935 romantic drama film Break of Hearts is a sudsy, soapy affair, in which budding music composer Constance (Katharine Hepburn) gets into a lather after falling for famed orchestra conductor Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer).  […]

Jun, 27

On Your Toes *** (1939, Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale Sr, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 3631

Director Ray Enright’s disappointingly flat-footed 1939 Warner Bros film version of the great 1936 Broadway hit musical by George Abbott, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart unfortunately lacks the spark and most of the music of […]

Apr, 29

Night and Day *** (1946, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone, Eve Arden, Ginny Simms) – Classic Movie Review 3088

Cary Grant was not happy while making the intriguing though flawed 1946 Cole Porter musical biopic Night and Day, clashing often with director Michael Curtiz, mostly over a ‘weak script with lousy characterisations’. With rumours […]

Nov, 24

De-Lovely *** (2004, Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Allan Corduner, Peter Polycarpou, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3089

Kevin Kline stars as gay composer Cole Porter, who reviews his career and life with his understanding wife, Linda (Ashley Judd) in director Irwin Winkler’s dramatically intriguing, highly tuneful musical biopic. Both stars give supremely stylish […]

Nov, 24

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