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Despite a turbulent encounter with a critic, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Chopin is introduced to Liszt, who introduces him to George Sand, a writer known for her masculine attire. The night before Chopin's crucial debut, a letter arrives bearing tragic news of his friends' arrests and deaths in Poland.
Paul Muni, though charming in the role of Professor Elsner, was much too eccentric and ebulliently peculiar to be very believable. The best performance by far was given by Merle Oberon as the cold and iron willed George Sand, whose love affair with Chopin turned into a tyrannical attempt to shelter him from the world.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Charles Vidor
- 1945-01-18
At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
In A Song to Remember, Chopin is portrayed as a fiery, idealistic revolutionary who, after a confrontation with one of the Czarist Russians controlling his homeland, flees to Paris with his music teacher. There he gains fame for his music and falls in with the cold, selfish French author George Sand, who battles with the teacher, Prof. Elsner ...
- Charles Vidor, Abby Berlin, William Watts
- Paul Muni
Merle Oberon plays novelist George Sand, who despite her preference for male clothing proves to be "all woman" during her torrid, decade-long affair with Chopin.
George Sand : [to Chopin] Discontinue that so-called Polonaise jumble you've been playing for days. George Sand : [Chopin is dying and wants to see Sand. Elsner visits her to relay the message] Are you satisfied, monsieur? Do you know anything that could replace a life as great as his? Prof. Joseph Elsner : Yes.
Director. 1 Credit. Charles Vidor. Screenwriter. 2 Credits. Sidney Buchman. Ernst Marischka. Actor. 41 Credits. Cornel Wilde. Frédéric Chopin. Paul Muni. Józef Elsner. Merle Oberon. George Sand....
