The Great Waltz

Dazzling? Daring? the Great Waltz may have you searching for ways to describe it's great charms. This cinematic rhapsody loosely based on the life of composer Johann Strauss is truly "an overlooked gem" (The Motion Picture Guide). To capture what the film calls "the spirit" of Strauss' music, the Great Waltz combines exquisite craftsmanship with spirited inventiveness. The splendid back lot re-creations of Viennese settings range from convivial biergartens to ornate palaces. Dimitri Tiomkin's arrangements of Strauss' incredible music (with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) swirl and dive. And the camerawork glides with bravura artistry. Julien Duvivier directs, getting radiant performances from two-time Oscar-winner Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, the Good Earth), Fernand Gravet and Oscar-nominated diva Miliza Korjus. Wonderful? Phenomenal? Choose your own description.

Director: Julien Duvivier
Producer: Bernard Hyman
Actor: Fernand Gravey
Actor: Milza Korjus
Actor: Luise Rainer
Actor: Fernand Gravet
Actor: Miliza Korjus
Actor: Hugh Herbert
Actor: Lionel Atwill
Actor: Curt Bois
Actor: Leonid Kinskey
Actor: Al Shean
Actor: Minna Gombell
Actor: George Houston
Actor: Bert Roach
Actor: Greta Meyer
Actor: Herman Bing
Actor: Alma Kruger
Actor: Henry Hull
Actor: Sig Rumann
Actor: Christian Rub
Actor: Ferdinand Munier
Actor: Bodil Ann Rosing
Actor: Gertrude Sutton
Actor: Sue Moore
Actor: Mira McKinney
Actor: Lester Sharpe
Actor: Hans Joby
Actor: Arthur Hamburger
Actor: Arno Frey
Actor: Loretta DeLone
Actor: Anthony Marlow
Actor: Paul Weigel
Actor: Wesley Giraud
Actor: Joseph DeStefani
Actor: Howard Mitchell
Actor: Torben Meyer
Actor: Larry Steers
Actor: George Ducount
Actor: Jane K. Loofbourrow
Actor: Phillip Terry
Actor: Brent Sargent
Actor: Ben Lewis
Actor: Luke Cosgrove
Actor: Sidney D'Albrook
Actor: Roland Varno
Actor: Frank Mayo
Actor: Christian J. Frank
Actor: Edward Keane
Actor: Boyd Gilbert
Actor: Jerry Fletcher
Actor: Walter Sande
Actor: Harry von Zynda
Actor: John Merton
Actor: Max Hoffman Jr.
Actor: George Magrill
Actor: Albert Mahler
Actor: St. Brendan's Boys Choir
Actor: William Fraunfelder
Actor: Betty Fraunfelder
Actor: Ruth Fraunfelder