2h 5min | Drama, Music, Romance | 25 December 1946
Director: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038622/
Watched online, good print.
I'm going to upgrade this to a 7-. I usually dislike JC, but that works for this character, and makes me hope the story ends exactly the way it does.
This is chock full of classical music, and JG's passion is well-fixed on that music. Isaac Stern was the musical advisor and the dubber for JG's playing. From the IMDb trivia:
John Garfield's violin "performances" are actually played by two professional violinists standing on either side of him, one to bow and one to finger. The actual music was performed by Isaac Stern. In Stern's autobiography, "My First 79 Years" (New York: Knopf, 1999; page 51), when the movie shows closeups of the hands alone playing the violin (without Garfield in the frame), those are Stern's hands.
OL's self-loathing is in full flower here, but his piano playing more than makes up for it.
Warner, dir. Negulesco; 7-
