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The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

ALL 12/29/1939 (en) Music, Romance 91 Min
  • Release
    12/29/1939
  • Production
    Paramount Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    The Great Victor Herbert
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Hear 28 Victor Herbert Melodies

Overview

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.

  1. Andrew L. Stone

    Director

  3. James Smith

    Editor

  4. Andrew L. Stone

    Producer



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  1. Allan Jones

    John Ramsey

  2. Mary Martin

    Louise Hall

  3. Walter Connolly

    Victor Herbert

  4. Lee Bowman

    Dr. Richard Moore

  5. Susanna Foster

    Peggy

  6. Judith Barrett

    Marie Clark

  7. Jerome Cowan

    Barney Harris

  8. John Garrick

    Warner Bryant

  9. Pierre Watkin

    Albert Martin

  10. Hal K. Dawson

    George Faller

  11. Richard Tucker

    Michael Brown

  12. Mary Currier

    Mrs. Victor Herbert

  13. Emmett Vogan

    Forbes

  14. James Finlayson

    Lamplighter

  15. Sandra Lee Richards

    Peggy - as a Young Girl

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Casts : 15 , Crews : 23

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The Great Victor Herbert (1939) 91 Min

ALL 12/29/1939 (en)
Music, Romance
  • Release 12/29/1939
  • Production
    Paramount Pictures
  • Original title The Great Victor Herbert
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Hear 28 Victor Herbert Melodies

Overview

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.

  1. Andrew L. Stone

    Director

  2. Andrew L. Stone, Robert Lively

    Story

  3. James Smith

    Editor

  4. Andrew L. Stone

    Producer



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