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Torch Singer

  • 1933
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  • 1h 11min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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Claudette Colbert in Torch Singer (1933)
DramaMusicalRomance

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaWhen she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.

  • Dirección
    • Alexander Hall
    • George Somnes
  • Guionistas
    • Lenore J. Coffee
    • Lynn Starling
    • Grace Perkins
  • Elenco
    • Claudette Colbert
    • Ricardo Cortez
    • David Manners
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.6/10
    887
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Alexander Hall
      • George Somnes
    • Guionistas
      • Lenore J. Coffee
      • Lynn Starling
      • Grace Perkins
    • Elenco
      • Claudette Colbert
      • Ricardo Cortez
      • David Manners
    • 30Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 13Opiniones de los críticos
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    Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert
    • Sally Trent, aka Mimi Benton
    Ricardo Cortez
    Ricardo Cortez
    • Tony Cummings
    David Manners
    David Manners
    • Michael Gardner
    Lyda Roberti
    Lyda Roberti
    • Dora Nichols
    Baby LeRoy
    Baby LeRoy
    • Bobby, Dora's Baby at 1 Year
    • (as Baby Le Roy)
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    Charley Grapewin
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    • Harry, Radio Announcer
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    Florence Roberts
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    Virginia Hammond
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    Mildred Washington
    • Carrie
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    Cora Sue Collins
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    Helen Jerome Eddy
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    Albert Conti
    Albert Conti
    • Carlotti
    Ethel Griffies
    Ethel Griffies
    • Agatha Alden
    Jean Acker
    Jean Acker
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (sin créditos)
    Bobbe Arnst
    • Woman in Sally's Apartment
    • (sin créditos)
    Carlena Beard
    • Sally - the Little Black Girl
    • (sin créditos)
    James Burke
    James Burke
    • Taxicab Driver
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Alexander Hall
      • George Somnes
    • Guionistas
      • Lenore J. Coffee
      • Lynn Starling
      • Grace Perkins
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    GManfred

    Excellent Early Colbert

    Hollywood sometimes went pretty far afield to find offbeat plots and Torch Singer is one the most offbeat you will see. It starts off soapy and ends up as a love story of sorts and in between there is some comedy and some musical numbers - something for everyone. I kept waiting for it to descend into bathos and tears but Claudette Colbert was so excellent that she singlehandedly kept the show afloat.

    Ordinarily I don't care for Colbert much but I found new respect for her acting ability and was amazed to learn she sang her own songs in this picture. Other readers have rehashed the story but I just want to add a few words about the supporting cast. It was refreshing to see Ricardo Cortez in a role that was not sinister - in fact, he was kind-hearted and almost tender. I can never get enough of Lyda Roberti, who I thought had a future as a top film comedienne but died too soon. Here she's only on screen for about 15 minutes. In a night club scene you can get a glimpse of Dennis O'Keefe behind David Manners' shoulder.

    This picture was headed for a sub-par rating from me as it is a very odd and contrived story, but as reported it was salvaged by Colbert's performance. Just enjoy it and don't ask too many questions.
    8sobaok

    Jilted Claudette in Excellent Tour de Force

    It's fun to see Colbert warbling the blues (several times) and kiddies lullabies in this well made and directed soap. Unwed and unable to manage she gives up her baby and becomes a disreputable torch singer and the hottest attraction around. Colbert goes from forlorn unwed mother to Mae-Westian blues singer in a captivating role. "Realization" puts her "back on track" to find her daughter. All this in 72 minutes! Good support from Lyda Roberti, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners. It's a shame this isn't available on video.
    A2ZJerry

    The low down on the high life in New York

    The soap suds reach almost to the ceiling in "Torch Singer" but that's part of the fun. Claudette Colbert and the rest of the excellent cast have a grand old time as they work their way through the somewhat rusty plot. Colbert sings a couple of songs and wears some smashing gowns as she portrays a chorus girl with a heart of gold who's forced to give up her baby daughter and become a torch singer to earn a living in Depression-era New York. In no time at all she's the toast of the town, with a fancy apartment, a maid, and a boy friend who's a big radio executive. She covers up her need for her daughter by drinking, dancing and carrying on, and does it ever look like fun. But it all works out in the end, and with only minutes to spare.

    Look for Lyda Roberti, the Polish bombshell in the first part of the movie as Colbert's friend and roommate. Roberti died tragically young, with only a few films to her credit, notably "The Kid From Spain " and "Million Dollar Legs," in which she played Mata Machree, The Woman No Man Can Resist. "Torch Singer" is kind of tame for a pre-Code feature but it's fun and well worth watching.
    secondtake

    Colbert is great, the movie a clumsy production (there were even two directors)

    Torch Singer (1933)

    A hobbled movie if you expect something naturalistic and moving, but Claudette Colbert is so convincing and terrific she almost compensates. A Depression-era tale of an affair that produced a baby, and then the mother having to struggle alone trying and failing to raise it. It takes off from there, as Colbert as the mother makes good with her life in other ways. The baby of course is still in the back of her mind, and causes a couple of dramatic twists later on.

    The plot is a huge contrivance, and so you have to jump in and see it as a kind of morality tale, packaged a little too neatly and with some comic and tragic episodes almost too forcefully inserted. It's all interesting and fun, though, and Colbert really is a versatile and heartfelt actress here.

    The one thing she may not do so well for modern audiences is sing so well, and as the title suggests, this is a key part of the middle of the movie. The orchestras are great, and the parade of side characters rather convincing as we go along, however. The sudden reappearance of the father, and the rather neat coincidences that follow, were way too much for me to swallow, however, especially the patched-on ten second last scene, which could have at least had some honest drama to it. You'll see.

    It's probably the ending most people wanted to see, however, and a justification of what had happened earlier (all of which is a kind of taboo just a year later when the Hays Code would have made an out-of-wedlock birth a more serious offense). I think it's handled here in a believable way, however, at first, so thank goodness it was finished before the artifice of the later 1930s took over these kinds of themes.

    The movie also has some nice (if neatly packaged) insights to the crude beginnings of commercial radio, which was always live, and which amounted to some people standing in front of a microphone. This was much like television was in its first years after WWII, with live broadcasts the necessity. And Colbert sings her own songs in this movie, for better or for worse. A total period effort, in tone and in content.
    7evanston_dad

    Claudette Colbert Sizzles

    Claudette Colbert sizzles in this "women's film" about a girl gone bad who's forced to give her illegitimate baby up for adoption and then sets out to find her years later after she's become a famous nightclub singer.

    This is melodrama good and proper, folks, so be prepared to suspend your disbelief if you're going to have a chance at enjoying it. But if you give in, you might just find what I found in this film, a sexy, sometimes funny, sometimes truly affecting story about a mother's love with an absolutely sensational actress making sure you buy it hook, line and sinker. Colbert is marvelous, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her whenever she's on the screen, which fortunately is most of the time.

    Grade: B+

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    • Trivia
      The uncredited little black girl who plays "Sally the fan" whom Claudette Colbert's character visits is played by Carlena Beard, the younger sister of Matthew "Stymie" Beard of The Little Rascals.
    • Citas

      Mimi Benton: Well, I'll tell you what happened to her. While you were touring China, she went through hell. It's a nice place, you must go there someday.

    • Conexiones
      Featured in Complicated Women (2003)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love
      (1933)

      Music by Ralph Rainger

      Lyric by Leo Robin

      Played during the opening credits and at the end

      Sung by Claudette Colbert at a nightclub

      Reprised by Claudette Colbert at a nightclub

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 8 de septiembre de 1933 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
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    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos
    • Productora
      • Paramount Pictures
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      1 hora 11 minutos
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      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

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