Tonight We Sing
Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring David Wayne and Ezio Pinza about life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok.[1]
| Tonight We Sing | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mitchell Leisen |
| Written by | Harry Kurnitz George Oppenheimer |
| Starring | David Wayne |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | January 26, 1953 |
Running time | 109 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The film is based on the 1946 book Impresario, an autobiography written by Sol Hurok with the help of Ruth Goode, who once served as Hurok's press agent.[2] The film credits Hurok as technical advisor.
Cast
- David Wayne as Sol Hurok
- Ezio Pinza as Feodor Chaliapin
- Roberta Peters as Elsa Valdine
- Anne Bancroft as Emma Hurok
- Tamara Toumanova as Anna Pavlova
- Isaac Stern as Eugène Ysaÿe
- Byron Palmer as Gregory Lawrence
- Jan Peerce as Gregory Lawrence's singing voice
Music
The film features performances of works from classical composers: Chopin, Gounod, Kreisler, Leoncavallo, Mussorgsky, Puccini, Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Verdi and Wieniawski. The film includes opera arias, duets and staged scenes from the operas: Boris Goudonov, Faust, Madama Butterfly and La Traviata. Tamara Toumanova, in her role as Pavlova, performs in three ballet scenes within the film.
The tenor voice of Jan Peerce is heard in the picture as well as the RCA Victor soundtrack release.
References
- "Tonight We Sing (1953) - Mitchell Leisen - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- Whitman, Alden (March 6, 1974). "Sol Hurok, the Impresario, Dies at 85". New York Times. Retrieved April 12, 2019.