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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 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 vioIinist feels the need to enIist. TragicalIy, he returns home from the battlefieId with a paralyzed arm, destroying his ability to play the instrument he loves so dearly. 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 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 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 (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 Adolph 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 fiIm to win the Photoplay MedaI of Honor, a forerunner of the Academy Awards. lt was remade in 1946 with Joan Crawford and John Garfield. |
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