1936
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Break of Hearts: Directed by Philip Moeller. With Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt. Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends.
- (669)
- Drama, Romance
- Philip Moeller
- 1935-05-31
Break of Hearts is a 1935 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer. The screenplay was written by the team of Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman , with Anthony Veiller , from a story by Lester Cohen , specifically for Hepburn.
Break of Hearts (1935) - This on-again, off-again love story between a promising composer (Katharine Hepburn) and a moody symphonic conductor (French actor Charles Boyer) had a rocky production history.
Womanizing and partying Franz Roberti is a successful New York orchestra conductor. Through his poor mentor Professor Thalma, Franz meets poor and aspiring composer and pianist Constance Dane, one of the Professor's friends and neighbors in their Washington Square apartment building.
Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer star in "Break of Hearts," a 1935 film that, despite not being particularly good, has some relevance to today's tabloid news. Boyer is a Tiger Woods-Jesse James type - he's a conductor who marries a young fledgling composer, is caught cheating on her, and she leaves him.
Katharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene Millard in this overheated melodrama directed by Philip Moeller of the renowned Theater Guild.
Overview. Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women. Philip Moeller. Director. Sarah Y. Mason. Screenplay. Anthony Veiller. Screenplay. Victor Heerman.
