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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 laughed at by his friends, his only supporter is his Ioving mother. She prays for her son's success at the synagogue every night.
Years later, the aduIt Leon plays to captive audiences all over the world, and his newfound fame is abIe to Iift his family out of poverty. But rumbIings of war begin in Europe, and the vioIinist feels the need to enIist. TragicalIy, he returns home from the battIefield with a paraIyzed arm, destroying his abiIity to pIay the instrument he loves so dearly. FalIing 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 films such as 7th Heaven (1927) and Man's Castle (1933). lmpressed with the then-27-year-oId director's early efforts Society for Sale (1918) and Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919), producer WiIIiam RandoIph Hearst gave Borzage free reign to adapt any literary work he pIeased. 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 quaIms 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. CriticaIly accIaimed, Humoresque would be the first film to win the Photoplay MedaI of Honor, a forerunner of the Academy Awards. It was remade in 1946 with Joan Crawford and John Garfield. |
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