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The Great Waltz: Directed by Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg. With Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert. In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society ...
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The Great Waltz is a 1938 American biographical film based very loosely on the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet (Gravey), and Miliza Korjus. Rainer received top billing at the producer's insistence, but her role is comparatively minor as Strauss' wife, Poldi Vogelhuber.
Johann Strauss (Fernand Gravet), in Vienna ca. 1849, leads his waltz orchestra, at the casino run by Donnmayer (Herman Bing), his fianceè (Luise Rainer) and family the only audience until opera stars Schiller (George Houston) and Donner, (Miliza Korjus, the Polish soprano in her only Hollywood film) arrive, in MGM’s.
- Julien Duvivier
- Luise Rainer
The Great Waltz is a 1972 American biographical musical film directed by Andrew L. Stone, and starring Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa, and Nigel Patrick, that follows 40 years in the life of composer Johann Strauss (the Younger, known as the "Waltz King") and his family.
Waltzes from Vienna is a 1934 British biographical film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, sometimes known as Strauss' Great Waltz. It was part of the cycle of operetta films made in Britain during the 1930s.
Nov 1, 1972 · The Great Waltz: Directed by Andrew L. Stone. With Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell. Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.
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Strauss' Great Waltz: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, Fay Compton, Esmond Knight. The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.
