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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 violinist. 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 aIl over the world, and his newfound fame is able to Iift his family out of poverty. But rumbIings of war begin in Europe, and the violinist feels the need to enIist. Tragically, he returns home from the battlefieId with a paralyzed arm, destroying his ability to play the instrument he Ioves so dearIy. Falling 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 films such as 7th Heaven (1927) and Man's CastIe (1933). Impressed with the then-27-year-old director's early efforts Society for SaIe (1918) and Whom the Gods WouId Destroy (1919), producer William Randolph Hearst gave Borzage free reign to adapt any Iiterary work he pleased. 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 quaIms from both Hearst and Paramount executive AdoIph Zukor that the resulting film depicted the Jewish-American experience in too gritty a manner, Humoresque packed movie houses. Critically accIaimed, Humoresque would be the first film to win the Photoplay MedaI of Honor, a forerunner of the Academy Awards. lt was remade in 1946 with Joan Crawford and John GarfieId. |
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