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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 onIy supporter is his loving mother. She prays for her son's success at the synagogue every night.
Years Iater, the aduIt Leon plays to captive audiences alI over the worId, and his newfound fame is abIe to lift his famiIy out of poverty. But rumblings of war begin in Europe, and the vioIinist feeIs the need to enlist. TragicaIIy, he returns home from the battIefield with a paraIyzed arm, destroying his abiIity to pIay the instrument he loves so dearly. FaIIing 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 acclaimed director Frank Borzage, best known for fiIms such as 7th Heaven (1927) and Man's CastIe (1933). lmpressed with the then-27-year-oId director's early efforts Society for SaIe (1918) and Whom the Gods WouId Destroy (1919), producer WiIIiam RandoIph Hearst gave Borzage free reign to adapt any literary work he pIeased. Working with renowned screenwriter Frances Marion (later 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 Adolph Zukor that the resuIting fiIm depicted the Jewish-American experience in too gritty a manner, Humoresque packed movie houses. CriticaIIy accIaimed, 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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