mukava991
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"Deep in My Heart" is one of the last big-budget Hollywood studio composer biopics, this one being essentially an elaborate star-studded revue of songs held together by a slender and episodic outline of Sigmund Romberg's life, emphasizing the career-long conflict between his preference for operetta over jazz and his love of making and spending lots of money. Much of his output was fading from public memory even in 1954 when this film was released.
The enduring standards were and are "Will You Remember?" from MAYTIME, and two from NEW MOON - namely, "Lover Come Back to Me" and "Stouthearted Men." Standouts are the last minute and a half of "Will You Remember" sung by Jane Powell and Vic Damone (as good as they are, neither they nor the set piece can match the famous 1937 film version of MAYTIME starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy). The songs "It" and "One Alone" are gorgeously staged and danced, the first by Ann Miller and an ensemble that includes the statuesque Julie Newmar, the second by Cyd Charisse and James Mitchell.
Merle Oberon as Dorothy Donnelly, Romberg's sometime lyricist, looks scrumptious in a succession of gowns by Helen Rose. The casting of Walter Pidgeon as Florenz Ziegfeld and Paul Henried as J. J. Shubert is eye-rollingly inappropriate, but the producers were banking on Names over believability.
Helen Traubel does double duty, exuding motherly spirit and warmth as Mrs. Mueller, a café proprietress and supporter of Romberg who sings several songs. Jose Ferrer as Romberg starts out stiffly but eventually breaks out in a frenetic tour-de-force as he does a speed run of an entire musical show playing all the main characters himself to impress the woman he loves (Doe Avedon as Lilian Harris, Romberg's second wife; the first wife is missing from the script).
Now that one can stream the highlights of movies like this, audiences are spared the ordeal of sitting - and even fast-forwarding - through the tedious spoken scenes.
The enduring standards were and are "Will You Remember?" from MAYTIME, and two from NEW MOON - namely, "Lover Come Back to Me" and "Stouthearted Men." Standouts are the last minute and a half of "Will You Remember" sung by Jane Powell and Vic Damone (as good as they are, neither they nor the set piece can match the famous 1937 film version of MAYTIME starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy). The songs "It" and "One Alone" are gorgeously staged and danced, the first by Ann Miller and an ensemble that includes the statuesque Julie Newmar, the second by Cyd Charisse and James Mitchell.
Merle Oberon as Dorothy Donnelly, Romberg's sometime lyricist, looks scrumptious in a succession of gowns by Helen Rose. The casting of Walter Pidgeon as Florenz Ziegfeld and Paul Henried as J. J. Shubert is eye-rollingly inappropriate, but the producers were banking on Names over believability.
Helen Traubel does double duty, exuding motherly spirit and warmth as Mrs. Mueller, a café proprietress and supporter of Romberg who sings several songs. Jose Ferrer as Romberg starts out stiffly but eventually breaks out in a frenetic tour-de-force as he does a speed run of an entire musical show playing all the main characters himself to impress the woman he loves (Doe Avedon as Lilian Harris, Romberg's second wife; the first wife is missing from the script).
Now that one can stream the highlights of movies like this, audiences are spared the ordeal of sitting - and even fast-forwarding - through the tedious spoken scenes.