Deep in My Heart (1954 film)

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Deep in My Heart
George J. Folsey
Edited byAdrienne Fazan
Music bySigmund Romberg
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc
Release date
  • December 9, 1954 (1954-12-09)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,504,000[1]
Box office$3,978,000[1]

Deep in My Heart is a 1954 American MGM biographical musical film about the life of operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, who wrote the music for The Student Prince, The Desert Song, and The New Moon, among others. Leonard Spigelgass adapted the film from Elliott Arnold's 1949 biography of the same name. Roger Edens produced, Stanley Donen directed and Eugene Loring choreographed. José Ferrer played Romberg, with support from soprano Helen Traubel as a fictional character and Merle Oberon as actress, playwright, librettist, producer, and director Dorothy Donnelly.

The film, which takes its title from "Deep in My Heart, Dear," a song from

make uncredited appearances.

Deep in My Heart was the final film in a series of four MGM biopics based on the lives of composers, which included Till the Clouds Roll By (Jerome Kern, 1946), Words and Music (Rodgers and Hart, 1948), and Three Little Words (Kalmar and Ruby, 1950).

Cast

Musical numbers

Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $2,471,000 in the US and Canada and $1,507,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $1,474,000.[1]

Reception and distribution

The film was not a critical success. According to the reviewer for the New York Times, Deep in My Heart "calls for a strong digestive system and a considerable tolerance for clichés."[2]

The film has been released in VHS and laserdisc formats, on DVD [3] and Blu-Ray.[4] The soundtrack, previously released on LP, was made available on iTunes in 2006. The film has been shown on Turner Classic Movies.

References

  1. ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Bosley Crowther, "The Screen in Review; Romberg Film, Mostly Music, at Radio City" (10-12-1954). Retrieved 15-07-2007.
  3. ^ "Deep In My Heart - 1954 - VHS - Reviews & Prices @ Yahoo! Shopping". Shopping.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  4. ^ "Deep in My Heart (1954) (BD)(MOD) | WBshop.com". Archived from the original on 2015-11-22.

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