Rhapsody (film)
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| Directed by | Charles Vidor |
| Produced by | Lawrence Weingarten |
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Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson |
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| Music by | Johnny Green (director) |
| Cinematography | Robert H. Planck |
| Edited by | John D. Dunning |
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| Distributed by | MGM |
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115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,979,000 |
| Box office | $3,292,000 |
Rhapsody is a 1954 American musical romance drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, and Louis Calhern.
Based on the novel Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson, the film is about a wealthy and beautiful woman who follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at a conservatory.
There she meets a piano student who falls madly in love with her. She must then choose between this man who loves her more than his music, and the violinist who loves his music more than anything else.Rhapsody features music by Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Felix Mendelssohn, and Claude Debussy.
The novel Maurice Guest was originally published in 1908.
Rhapsody was filmed on location in Florhofgasse, Zürich (the street scenes) and Pontresina, Kanton Graubünden in Switzerland.
According to MGM records the film earned $1,291,000 in the US and Canada and $2,001,000 overseas, resulting in a loss of $217,000.
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
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