Beloved (1934)
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Apparently inspired by Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet, Beloved is a lush, lachrymose musical romance set in Vienna, South Carolina and New York City. John Boles stars as Austrian composer Carl Hausmann, whose musical career is very nearly cut short during the 1848 revolution. Carl is whisked off by his mother (Dorothy Peterson) to the American South, where he establishes a respectable reputation in the years just prior to the Civil War. Forced to relocate to New York with his new bride Lucy (Gloria Stuart), Carl languishes professionally for several years, then gives up composing to support his wife and child as a music teacher. Tragedy strikes once more during the Spanish American War, when the Hausmann's son is killed. Carl and Lucy invest all their love in their grandson Eric (Morgan Farley), a Gershwin type who grows up to become a jazz musician in the post-WWI era. As Eric grows richer and more successful, the Hausmanns continue to live in genteel poverty, with Carl all the while struggling to finish the symphony he began so many years before. After an unpleasant episode in which Eric accuses Carl of "stealing my stuff," our nonagenarian protagonist finally hears his symphony in a radio broadcast arranged by his chastened grandson. Contented at last, Carl peacefully passes on. Ironically, leading lady Gloria Stuart was far more attractive when she really reached her 80s than when she was heavily made up as an old woman in Beloved. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- John Boles - Carl Hausmann
- Albert Conti - Baron Von Hausmann
- Morgan Farley - Eric
- Anderson Lawler - Rountree
- Lucille Gleason - The Duchess
- Lucille La Verne - Mrs. Briggs
- Bessie Barriscale - Mrs. Watkins
- Louise Carter
- Fred Kelsey
- Mickey Rooney - Bit Part
- Oscar Apfel
- Holmes Herbert
- Clara Blandick
- Gloria Stuart - Lucy Hausmann
- Dorothy Peterson - Baroness Von Hausmann
- Ruth Hall - Patricia
- Richard Carle - Judge Belden
- Mae Busch - Marie
- James Flavin - Wilcox
- Cosmo Kyrle Bellew
- Mary Gordon
- Josef Swickard
- King Baggot
- C. Montague Shaw - Talbot
- Wallis Clark
- Edmund Breese
- Director(s):
- Victor Schertzinger
- Writer(s):
- George O'Neil, Paul Gangelin
- Producer(s):
- Benjamin F. Zeidman, Carl Laemmle, Jr.
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