The Great Waltz (1938)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1938 Wide

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1938 Wide

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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann Strauss. European singing sensation Fernard Gravet stars as Strauss, while MGM's two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer is top-billed as Poldi Vogelhuber. Poldi is the wife of Strauss, but she is forced to sit and sulk as her husband carries on a lengthy affair with opera singer Milza Korjus (in her only American film). Husband and wife mend their differences shortly before

G, 1 hr. 42 min.

Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics

Directed By: Julien Duvivier

Written By: Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter Reisch

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1938 Wide

On DVD: Feb 27, 2007

Cast

Luise Rainer
Poldi Vogelhuber
Fernand Gravey
Johann Strauss
Milza Korjus
Carla Donner
Hugh Herbert
Hofbauer
Lionel Atwill
Count Hohenfried
Leonid Kinskey
Dudelman
Curt Bois
Kienzl
Al Shean
Cellist
Minna Gombell
Mrs. Hofbauer
George Houston
Schiller
Bert Roach
Vogelhuber
Greta Meyer
Mrs. Vogelhuber
Herman Bing
Dommayer
Alma Kruger
Mrs. Strauss
Henry Hull
Emperor Franz Joseph
Sig Rumann
Wertheimer
Christian Rub
Coachman

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Return with us now to those thrilling days in Vienna before the revolution and Johann Strauss (Gravet) doesn't want to be a banker but instead to write waltzes. His lifelong pal, buddy, and possible sweetheart is the long suffering, long ignored by him Rainer who simply wants to get married. Just as their plans

August 12, 2011

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although luise rainer was the nominal star of this film, she wasn't a musical performer. she gives a lovely performance as poldi, the maligned wife of composer johann strauss, well played also by fernand gravet. but they both take a back seat to miliza korjus, who sings the hell out of the strauss melodies and is a

January 18, 2009