1h 29min | Drama, Music, Romance | 30 October 1941
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Stars: Loretta Young, Conrad Veidt, Dean Jagger.
Adolph Bolm ... choreographer
watched online, fuzzy print, sound out of sync, Cyrillic subtitles.
Not quite so dreary as the title suggests. A better title might be Her Ambition. Qualifies for Music genre since we get lots of pieces of ballet. Hard to tell with the fuzzy print, but it looked like LY (b. 1913) is actually en pointe for close-range shots, but likely a dance stand-in for the more athletic moves (no mention on the cast list, and no Soundtracks page.)
Because of the fuzzy print and sound out of sync, I didn't really Watch this so much as listen. I didn't find the story engaging, and don't know if the visual acting was good enough to assist. This time I'll give the detriment of the doubt.
Gregory Ratoff Productions, distr. Columbia, Ratoff; 5+
