The Archive · 1939

Waltz Time Used

hot or tepid, is supposed to be Chief musical love of film bu t jazz does not have all its own way n in the cinema. The waltz retains its magic. "The Blue Danube" is still as popular as "The Symphony in Blue" Film producers know this and consequently the waltz is never entirel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer evident! it for they have spent a great deal of money and pains on The Great Donna, a famous operatic s his day.

The Viennese waltz king is pla; by Fernand Graver, his wife by Luise Rainer and the opera singer by Militza Korjus, The picture is spectacular as well as expensive and those responsible for the music have done everything possible to suggest the irresistible lilt of the true Viennese waltz. The general artistic merit of the picture is guaranteed by the fact that it is being directed by Davivier,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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