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My Song for You

  • 1934
  • Approved
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
44
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Jan Kiepura in My Song for You (1934)
ComedyMusicalRomance

Riccardo Gatti, an Italian opera singer and lover-divine with voice to match, is the idol of all the women in Vienna,and is the man every woman after. So, what's the deal with Mary Newberg, ... Read allRiccardo Gatti, an Italian opera singer and lover-divine with voice to match, is the idol of all the women in Vienna,and is the man every woman after. So, what's the deal with Mary Newberg, who keeps running away from him and Gatti has to run after her?Riccardo Gatti, an Italian opera singer and lover-divine with voice to match, is the idol of all the women in Vienna,and is the man every woman after. So, what's the deal with Mary Newberg, who keeps running away from him and Gatti has to run after her?

  • Director
    • Maurice Elvey
  • Writers
    • Ernst Marischka
    • Irma von Cube
    • Austin Melford
  • Stars
    • Jan Kiepura
    • Aileen Marson
    • Sonnie Hale
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    44
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Maurice Elvey
    • Writers
      • Ernst Marischka
      • Irma von Cube
      • Austin Melford
    • Stars
      • Jan Kiepura
      • Aileen Marson
      • Sonnie Hale
    • 3User reviews
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    Jan Kiepura
    Jan Kiepura
    • Riccardo Gatti
    Aileen Marson
    Aileen Marson
    • Mary Newberg
    Sonnie Hale
    Sonnie Hale
    • Charlie, Gatti's male secretary
    Reginald Smith
    • Baron Felix Kleeberg
    Emlyn Williams
    Emlyn Williams
    • Theodore Bruckner
    George Merritt
    George Merritt
    • Otto Newberg
    Muriel George
    Muriel George
    • Mrs. Newberg
    Gina Malo
    Gina Malo
    • Fifi
    Vi Kaley
    Vi Kaley
    • Charlady at Imperial Café
    • (uncredited)
    Andreas Malandrinos
    Andreas Malandrinos
    • Head Waiter at Imperial Café
    • (uncredited)
    C. Denier Warren
    C. Denier Warren
    • Head Waiter at Monbijou
    • (uncredited)
    D.J. Williams
    • Opera House Secretary
    • (uncredited)
    Bruce Winston
      • Director
        • Maurice Elvey
      • Writers
        • Ernst Marischka
        • Irma von Cube
        • Austin Melford
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      5malcolmgsw

      One of three versions

      In the thirties Gaumont British became involved in multi lingual versions of films,often originating from Germany.They could use some of the scenes from the original for the English version.Velvet is lumbered with a leading man who can sing but can't speak English very well.So we get a lot of him singing and to fill in the gaps we are subjected to the over the top antics of Donnie Hale.An actor who needed a strong directors hand,which was not forthcoming here.Difficult to understand how films with opera were ever popular fare.
      petershelleyau

      Kiepura!

      This British musical directed by Maurice Elvey was made to showcase the Polish tenor Jan Kiepura, but one gathers that Mr Kiepura wasn't too fluent in English - he only utters short phrases - so Elvey has overbalanced the proceedings with comic relief, particularly in giving the singer a male few slapstick secretary (Sonnie Hale). Since the titles credit "additional comedy scenes" to someone else, one gets the impression that Elvey is the one who focused on Kiepura, which may have been a mistake since all the singing scenes, bar one, are static with a worrying tendency for cutaways to a rapturous audience. One could interpret this as a concession to the audience, to spare them either the sight of an immobile Kiepura or prolonged exposure to operatic arias, but why cast a singer and then not let us see him sing? The exception to this is when Kiepura reprises one of his two operetta pieces for comic effect and sings to Hale - My Song for You becomes I'd do the same for you - followed by a little dance between the two of them. The surprise here is that in spite of Hale's overt campiness, there isn't a suggestion of homoeroticism, perhaps because Kiepura's preference is never in question. His apparent agreeable nature, underlined by his willingness to appear bare chested in 2 scenes, would probably not preclude such an idea, but his manner has more to do with the obvious joy he experiences singing, and his playing an Italian. The invisible orchestra is a period given, but Elvey's having Kiepura clamber over a boat or drawing caricatures as he sings pieces that require great breath control is perhaps sillier than the still camera. There are 3 set piece concerts - one where Kiepura literally stops traffic, though this has a narrative payoff; another in an unusual choice of indoor swimming pool, with the singer performing from the high dive; and Kiepura doing a The Graduate interruption to a wedding with Ava Maria, though here nobody seems to object. The film is inexplicably set in Vienna, though everyone speaks english and no-one appears to be dubbed, and has a rather nasty set of contrivances where a romance develops from manipulation. Poor Kiepura is used for his connections by Aileen Marson, to further the career of her boyfriend. Whether intentional or not, Elvey introduces Marson as unlikeable in the way she dismisses the advances of another suitor, even when he is later revealed to be a philanderer. (He is so gay-acting that this is laughable). In a scene where Marson is trapped in the chorus of a rehearsal of AIDA Elvey overplays his hand, and it's hard to believe that Marson's irritability and humiliation is what makes Kiepura fall in love with her. Marson actually resembles Jean Harlow, though not even Jean was so abused by her wardrobe, and she plays a scene of parental deception with Harlow's childlike behaviour. This plot point has a resonant development, when Kiepura finds himself with a sleeping Marson on a date, and we wonder what he will do. The screenplay actually has a pleasing narrative flow, with pieces coming together cleverly, and Hale even gets a dig at the musical format with a comment to Kiepura after a romantic rejection - "Try and sing that off". There are also nice editing cuts from Marson's boyfriend's hands playing the piano to Marson's hands wringing her dress, and Hale being pushed into a pool to Hale deliberately swimming in one.

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      • Connections
        Alternate-language version of Ein Lied für dich (1933)
      • Soundtracks
        My Song for You
        Music by Mischa Spoliansky

        Lyrics by Frank Eyton

        Sung by Jan Kiepura

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      • Release date
        • January 19, 1935 (Australia)
      • Country of origin
        • United Kingdom
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • A Song for You
      • Production companies
        • Ciné-Alliance
        • Gaumont British Picture Corporation
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      • Runtime
        • 1h 25m(85 min)
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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