Humoresque (film)
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| Humoresque | |
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
| Produced by | Jerry Wald Jack L. Warner (executive producer) |
| Written by | Clifford Odets Zachary Gold Fannie Hurst (novel) |
| Starring | Joan Crawford John Garfield Oscar Levant J. Carrol Naish Ruth Nelson |
| Music by | Franz Waxman Antonín Dvorák Richard Wagner |
| Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
| Editing by | Rudi Fehr |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) |  25 December 1946 |
| Running time | 125 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Humoresque is a 1946 film melodrama made by Warner Bros.. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold from the novel by Fannie Hurst. Franz Waxman orchestrated and conducted the music score which features music by Antonín Dvorák and Richard Wagner. The cinematography was by Ernest Haller and the costume design by Adrian and Bernard Newman.
The film stars Joan Crawford and John Garfield, with Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Ruth Nelson and Craig Stevens.
The film is a remake of the 1920 silent film Humoresque, directed by Frank Borzage.
[edit] Plot
A young man from New York falls in love with a rich woman who is already married by becoming a violinist and in the end, their love fails and the rich woman commits suicide by giving herself to the sea. This relates surprisingly identically to the central theme of the Russian novel Anna Karenina, which is, " A daring life of impulsive passion can only lead to tragedy".
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