Song of Love (1947 film)

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Song of Love

Directed by Clarence Brown

Produced by Clarence Brown

Screenplay by Ivan Tors

Irma von Cube
Allen Vincent
Robert Ardrey

Based on Song of Love, the Life of Robert and Clara

Schumann
play
by Bernard Schubert
Mario Silva

Starring Katharine Hepburn

Paul Henreid
Robert Walker

Music by Robert Schumann

Johannes Brahms
Franz Liszt
 Cinematography Harry Stradling Sr.

Edited by Robert Kern

Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date  October 9, 1947

Running time 119 min.

Country United States

Language English

Budget $2,696,000[1]

Box office $2,737,000[1]

Song of Love is a 1947 biopic starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert

Walker, and Leo G. Carroll, directed by Clarence Brown and released by Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay was co-authored by Ivan Tors, Irma von Cube, Allen
Vincent, and Robert Ardrey, based on a play by Bernard Schubert and Mario Silva.

Contents

 1Plot summary
 2Cast
 3Production notes
 4Reception
 5References
 6External links

Plot summary[edit]
Fictionalized romance set in the 19th century, focussing on musicians Clara Wieck
Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes
Brahms (Robert Walker).
Clara takes a break from her thriving career as an acclaimed concert pianist to devote
herself to her struggling composer husband Robert and their seven children. Johannes
Brahms, Schumann's best student, takes a place in their home but falls in love with
Clara and eventually realises he must move out.
Schumann works on his opera "Faust" but has no success with interesting producers in
it. Unable to cope with disappointment and failure, Robert eventually has a breakdown
while conducting a performance. He later dies in an asylum. Brahms proposes marriage
to Clara but she rejects him saying she will always love Robert. She devotes the rest of
her life to preserving his music and his memory. [2]

Cast[edit]
 Katharine Hepburn as Clara Wieck Schumann
 Paul Henreid as Robert Schumann
 Robert Walker as Johannes Brahms
 Henry Daniell as Franz Liszt
 Leo G. Carroll as Professor Wieck
 Elsa Janssen as Bertha (as Else Janssen)
 Gigi Perreau as Julie
 'Tinker' Furlong as Felix
 Ann Carter as Marie
 Janine Perreau as Eugenie
 Jimmy Hunt as Ludwig
 Anthony Sydes as Ferdinand
 Eilene Janssen as Elise
 Roman Bohnen as Dr. Hoffman
 Ludwig Stössel as Haslinger (as Ludwig Stossel)

Production notes[edit]
Hepburn trained intensively with a pianist so that she could be filmed playing the piano.
[3]
 When Henreid is playing piano, the hands of Ervin Nyiregyházi are seen.[4] The
soundtrack for the picture was recorded by Arthur Rubinstein.[3]

Reception[edit]
The film earned $1,469,000 in the US and Canada and $1,268,000 elsewhere resulting
in a loss of $1,091,000.[1]
Variety listed the film as earned $3.1 million in US rentals. [5]

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:      "The Eddie Mannix Ledger". Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for
a b c

Motion Picture Study{{inconsistent citations}} .

2. ^ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/song-of-love-v75821
3. ^ Jump up to:    Chandler, Charlotte (2011). I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn: A
a b

Personal Biography. Applause. p.  164.

4. ^ Bazanna, Kevin (2007). Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary
Musical Prodigy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Carroll & Graf; Cambridge: Da
Capo Press. p. 205.
5. ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
External links[edit]
 Song of Love at the American Film Institute Catalog
 Song of Love at IMDB
 Song of Love at TCM Movie Database
 Song of Love at AllMovie