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The Great Waltz
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Overview

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6.7/10   320 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Gottfried Reinhardt (story)
Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
4 November 1938 (USA) more
Tagline:
Your beating heart,your pounding pulse will tell you it's the most exciting musical love story ever told!
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
User Reviews:
What A Glorious Discovery!!!! more (27 total)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Luise Rainer ... Poldi Vogelhuber
Fernand Gravey ... Johann 'Schani' Strauss II (as Fernand Gravet)
Miliza Korjus ... Carla Donner

Hugh Herbert ... Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
Lionel Atwill ... Count Anton 'Tony' Hohenfried
Curt Bois ... Kienzl
Leonid Kinskey ... Dudelman
Al Shean ... Cellist
Minna Gombell ... Mrs. Hofbauer
George Houston ... Fritz Schiller
Bert Roach ... Vogelhuber
Greta Meyer ... Mrs. Vogelhuber
Herman Bing ... Otto Dommayer
Alma Kruger ... Mrs. Strauss
Henry Hull ... Emperor Franz Josef
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Life of Johann Strauss (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
104 min | West Germany:97 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Trivia:
Toscha Seidel, the Russian virtuoso violinist, was hired especially to dub the solos on the soundtrack for Johann Strauß (Fernand Gravey) and began a new career working as a concert master at MGM and other studios. more
Quotes:
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II: And the earth, and the blood of life itself is vanity. more
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Soundtrack:
Artist's Life, Op.316 more

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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
What A Glorious Discovery!!!!, 19 November 2007
10/10
Author: Enrique Sanchez from Miami, FL

A very long time ago, I gave up on Hollywood being accurate with biographies let alone bios of composers! So, tonight I sat down to watch TCM's Guest Programmer by a REAL operatic diva, Renee Fleming first choice. I just cannot believe that I have lived 51 years and have never heard of this movie or even seen a snippet anywhere! In just the first exciting music sequence I was witnessing a miracle! I remember so well when the millennium's Moulin Rouge came out a few fuddy-duddy friends of mine called it outrageous because of its frenetic pace! (Apparently, they had never seen THIS movie which was made in 1938 not in 2001!) The frenetic pace of the SUPERLATIVE cinematography alone is worthy of one viewing of this miraculously beautiful movie! All of the principal players were just so good...sure this is an old-fashioned way of acting - so what! (I tell you, some reviewers don't have any idea about the history of acting and film by the way they so trash older movies and their "quaint" ways.) Oh yes...and the music, the music, THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!! What a glorious discovery! I thank Renee, Robert, TCM and Charles Nelson Reilly (wherever he is) for recommending this movie to Renee! If you don't like this - then you need medical checkup quickly!

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