Song Without End (1960)
- Starring:
- Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Cukor, Charles Vidor, (more)
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Synopsis of Song Without End
Hoping to recapture the success of its 1945 Frederic Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures concocted the 1960 Technicolor costume drama Song Without End. Dirk Bogarde is cast as musical genius Franz Liszt. Bogarde's piano scenes are dubbed with another's singing voice, but this hardly matters in that the film is preoccupied with Liszt's infamous romantic entanglements. The crux of the matter is Liszt's desire to wed the already married Russian princess Carolyne (Capucine), which will necessitate an unpleasant breakup with his current lover, Countess Marie (Genevieve Page). Director Charles Vidor died after only a few weeks on the picture; he was replaced by George Cukor, who graciously insisted that Vidor be billed in letters larger than his. The chief selling point of Song Without End is its wall-to-wall music; the film won an Oscar for "best musical arrangement." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Song Without End
- Dirk Bogarde - Franz Liszt
- Geneviève Page - Countess Marie
- Ivan Desny - Prince Nicholas
- Lou Jacobi - Potin
- Marcel Dalio - Chelard
- Walter Rilia - Archbishop
- Edmund Erlandsen - Thalberg
- Alexander Davion - Chopin
- Capucine - Princess Carolyne
- Patricia Morison - George Sand
- Martita Hunt - Grand Duchess
- Albert Rueprecht - Prince Felix Lichnowsky
- Lyndon Brook - Richard Wagner
- Hans Unterkirchen - Czar
- Katherine Squire - Anna Liszt
- Director(s):
- George Cukor, Charles Vidor
- Writer(s):
- Oscar Millard
- Producer(s):
- William Goetz
- 1960 - Golden Globe - Best Picture - Musical
- 1960 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Picture - Musical
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