Strange Fascination (1952), 5

Middle-aged European pianist Paul Marvan (Hugo Haas) is brought to America by wealthy widow Diana Fowler (Mona Barrie) and he meets and weds a canary-blonde named Margo (Cleo Moore), who is a... 
1h 20min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music | September 1952
Director: Hugo Haas
Stars: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Mona Barrie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045199/
Watched online, poor print.

Didn't care for the story or the players, and not enough music to compensate. No one's face is familiar here, but Haas played the restaurant owner in For the Love of Mary ('48).

I can see why Noir is appropriate: HH doesn't seem able to control his strange fascination (an unlikely characteristic of a successful classical concert pianist) for CM, so he is "controlled by fate", except when he chooses to do something bad, which was a very stupid choice: smash his hand for insurance, which didn't pay and left him with only 1 hand for life.

CM seems to be looking for security, and she too is fascinated by his talent, and the type of music which seems new to her, or certainly underappreciated by her. She tries to fend him off by pointing out their cultural and intellectual differences, while drawing him in by discounting their age difference. But she's not a femme fatale who's trying to destroy him, or use him to execute some dark plan. It's hard to tell whether her acting is bad, or whether the director (her costar) decided that flatness was part of her character.

Hugo Haas Prod., distr. Columbia, dir. Haas; 5