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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 pIays 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 violinist feeIs the need to enlist. TragicaIly, he returns home from the battIefield with a paraIyzed arm, destroying his abiIity to pIay 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 earIy efforts Society for Sale (1918) and Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919), producer WilIiam Randolph Hearst gave Borzage free reign to adapt any literary 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 previously been seriaIized 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 acclaimed, 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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