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Director
  
Charles Vidor

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Musical, Romance

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Fay Kanin
,
Michael Kanin

Release date
  
March 11, 1954 (1954-03-11) (USA)

Based on
  
Maurice Guest  by Henry Handel Richardson

Music director
  
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy

Screenplay
  
Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin, Augustus Goetz, Ruth Goetz

Cast
  
Elizabeth Taylor
(Louise Durant),
Vittorio Gassman
(Paul Bronte),
John Ericson
(James Guest),
Louis Calhern
(Nicholas Durant),
Michael Chekhov
(Prof. Schuman),
Barbara Bates
(Effie Cahill)

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Rhapsody is a 1954 American musical romance drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, and Louis Calhern.

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Plot summary

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Based on the novel Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson, the film is about a wealthy and beautiful woman who follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at a conservatory.

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There she meets a piano student who falls madly in love with her. She must then choose between this man who loves her more than his music, and the violinist who loves his music more than anything else. Rhapsody features music by Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Felix Mendelssohn, and Claude Debussy.

Cast

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  • Elizabeth Taylor as Louise Durant
  • Vittorio Gassman as Paul Bronte
  • John Ericson as James Guest
  • Louis Calhern as Nicholas Durant
  • Michael Chekhov as Prof. Schuman
  • Barbara Bates as Effie Cahill
  • Richard Hageman as Bruno Fürst
  • Richard Lupino as Otto Krafft
  • Celia Lovsky as Frau Sigerlist
  • Stuart Whitman as Dove
  • Madge Blake as Mrs. Cahill
  • Jack Raine as Edmund Streller
  • Birgit Nielsen as Madeleine
  • Jacqueline Duval as Yvonne
  • Norma Nevens as Student Pianist

    • Production

    The novel Maurice Guest was originally published in 1908.

    Rhapsody was filmed on location in Florhofgasse, Zürich (the street scenes) and Pontresina, Kanton Graubünden in Switzerland.

    Reception

    According to MGM records the film earned $1,291,000 in the US and Canada and $2,001,000 overseas, resulting in a loss of $217,000.

    The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – Nominated

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    References

    Rhapsody (film) Wikipedia
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