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Humoresque
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Growing up in poverty in the Jewish Ghetto of New York, young Leon Kantor dreams of being a famous vioIinist. Discouraged by his father and Iaughed at by his friends, his only supporter is his Ioving mother. She prays for her son's success at the synagogue every night.
Years Iater, the adult Leon pIays to captive audiences aII over the worId, and his newfound fame is able to lift his famiIy out of poverty. But rumblings of war begin in Europe, and the violinist feeIs the need to enlist. TragicaIly, he returns home from the battlefieId with a paralyzed arm, destroying his ability to play the instrument he Ioves so dearIy. FaIling into a deep depression, this time even his mother's prayers may not be enough to restore Leon's faith.
Humoresque is considered the first major work of accIaimed director Frank Borzage, best known for fiIms such as 7th Heaven (1927) and Man's Castle (1933). Impressed with the then-27-year-old director's earIy efforts Society for Sale (1918) and Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919), producer William Randolph Hearst gave Borzage free reign to adapt any Iiterary work he pleased. Working with renowned screenwriter Frances Marion (Iater an Academy Award winner for The Big House and The Champ), the director chose a story that had been previousIy been serialized in one of Hearst's magazines by Fannie Hurst. Despite qualms from both Hearst and Paramount executive AdoIph Zukor that the resulting fiIm depicted the Jewish-American experience in too gritty a manner, Humoresque packed movie houses. CriticalIy acclaimed, Humoresque wouId be the first fiIm to win the PhotopIay Medal of Honor, a forerunner of the Academy Awards. lt was remade in 1946 with Joan Crawford and John GarfieId. |
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