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A Song to Remember

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Duration:
113 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | Music
IMDB rate:
6.9
Director:
Charles Vidor
Awards:
Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 1 win
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1945-01-18
Cast
Actor
Character
Nina Foch
Nina Foch
A Song to Remember
Paul Muni
Prof. Joseph Elsner
Merle Oberon
George Sand
Cornel Wilde
Frédéric Chopin
George Coulouris
Louis Pleyel
Howard Freeman
Kalkbrenner
Stephen Bekassy
Franz Liszt
Sig Arno
Henri Dupont (uncredited)
Dawn Bender
Isabelle Chopin - Age 9 (uncredited)
David Bond
Lackey (uncredited)
Walter Bonn
Major Domo (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
Duke of Orleans
William Challee
Titus (uncredited)
Paul Conrad
Waiter (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Man at Pleyel's (uncredited)
Peter Cusanelli
Balzac
Norma Drury Boleslavsky
Duchess of Orleans (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Madame Mercier (uncredited)
Earl Easton
Albert (uncredited)
Fern Emmett
Madame Lambert (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Guest at Pleyel Hall Concert (uncredited)
Gregory Gaye
Young Russian (uncredited)
John George
Servant (uncredited)
Fay Helm
Madame Chopin (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Zoia Karabanova
Countess
Charles La Torre
Postman (uncredited)
Al Luttringer
De La Croux (uncredited)
George Macready
Alfred DeMusset
Darren McGavin
Student (uncredited)
Sybil Merritt
Isabelle Chopin (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Guest at Duke of Orleans (uncredited)
Alfred Paix
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Monsieur Jollet (uncredited)
William Richardson
Jan (uncredited)
Roxy Roth
Paganini
Cosmo Sardo
Lackey (uncredited)
Henry Sharp
Russian Count (uncredited)
Maurice Tauzin
Frédéric Chopin - Age 10
Ivan Triesault
Monsieur Chopin (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff
Russian Governor (uncredited)
Lucy Von Boden
Window Washer (uncredited)
Charles Wagenheim
Waiter (uncredited)
Eric Wilton
Guest at Salon Concert (uncredited)
Ian Wolfe
Pleyel's Clerk (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
To play Chopin's piano solos,Columbia Pictures first attempted to engage Artur Rubinstein, then Vladimir Horowitz. Rubinstein was offended when he was greeted by Columbia president Harry Cohn with a boisterous "Hiya, Ruby!" Horowitz got along better with Cohn, but did not wish to perform the severely cut versions of the Chopin pieces the film required.
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Liberace, who was in 1945 performing as "Walter 'Buster' Keys," stated that he got the idea of having an ornate candelabra on his piano from the scene in this film when Merle Oberon carries a candelabra into the darkened salon and places it on the piano to reveal Chopin as the pianist rather than Franz Liszt.
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Darren McGavin's film debut.
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Goofs
Almost all the pianos in the movie are artcase pianos made after the death of Chopin, the sound we hear is also of modern pianos.
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A modern wrist-watch can be seen on Chopin's left wrist in the brief close-up of 'his' hands playing the piano at 1 h 42 m.
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When Elsner and Pleyel are walking down the staircase following Chopin's performance, the shadow of the mic boom is visible on the wall behind them.
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Quotes
Prof. Joseph Elsner: What's going on here? Is the reception over?
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George Sand: [to Chopin] Discontinue that so-called Polonaise jumble you've been playing for days.
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Faq
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What is 'A Song to Remember' about?
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From what did Chopin die?
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How does the movie end?
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Professor Elsner (Paul Muni) relays to Chopin the message from Constantia (Nina Foch) asking for support to get the Polish uprisers, once friends of Chopin, out of jail. At first, Chopin is noncommital. Then he has a change of heart and asks Louis Pleyel (George Coulouris) to arrange for a European tour with all the concert proceeds to go to Elsner. George Sand (Merle Oberon) is adamantly against it, but Chopin perseveres, although he gets weaker and weaker with each passing concert. At his last concert in Pleyel Hall in Paris, he collapses and takes to his sickbed. Elsner takes the message to Sand that Chopin is dying and is asking for her, but she chooses not to see him. Sometime later, Chopin passes away quietly with Constantia and Professor Elsner at his bedside.
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Photos from cast
Nina Foch
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