F-0104

Title:

Break of Hearts

Category:

Movie in which J.S. Bach's music is played in the soundtrack

Produced:

1935

Country:

USA

Released:

May 1935 (film)

Director:

Philip Moeller

Writer:

Lester Cohen (story); Victor Heerman; Sarah Y. Mason; Anthony Veiller

Actors:

Katharine Hepburn (Constance Dane Roberti); Charles Boyer (Franz Roberti); John Beal (Johnny Lawrence); Jean Hersholt (Professor Thalma); Sam Hardy (Marx); Inez Courtney (Miss Wilson); Helene Millard (Sylvia DeWitt); Ferdinand Gottschalk (Enrico Pazzini); Susan Fleming (Elise); Lee Kohlmar (Schubert); Jean Howard (Didi Smith-Lennox); Anne Grey (Lady Phyllis Cameron)

Description:

Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. They see each other, fall in love and marry. They honeymoon all over Europe and are happy back home until Constance finds him with a society divorcee and leaves him. (written by Tony Fontana)

Language:

English

Bach's Music:

Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV 565: played at the New Year's Day concert

Film Company:

RKO Radio Pictures

DVD Label:

TT:

78 min

Comments:

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Source: IMDB
Contributor: Aryeh Oron (October 2007)

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