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Song Of Love Reviews:
Dinner's Late!
2009-11-13 - I started watching this movie too close to dinner time! It is a mostly-historically accurate account of the composing life of Robert Schumann, his wife, Clara, and with vignettes of the lives of Franz Lizt and Johannes Brahms where they interconnect with the Schumann's. I could not tear myself away from the story even to start dinner, because it was just that commanding of my entire attention. Dinner was late, but the movie eventually ended and I had thoroughly enjoyed it (so much that I'm now buying my own copy to share with my musician grandchildren who play Schumann, Lizt and Brahms regularly - bless them!).

Clara Wieck Hepburn
2009-05-27 - SONG OF LOVE is directed by Clarence Brown and partly scripted by Ivan Tors (creator of TV shows SEA HUNT and FLIPPER). It's a romanticized biopic of Clara and Robert Schumann. (Brahms and Liszt also figure in the story.)

This one's a hanky-dampener's delight.
In 1840. pianist Clara Wieck (Hepburn) gives up a successful concert career to be housefraü to new husband, composer Robert Schumann (Henreid). The years bless them with seven children, but sadly Robert is victim of a progressive mental illness (no mention here that it may have been caused by mercury used to treat his VD). He ends up in an asylum after a suicide attempt and dies there, leaving a widow in deep financial straits.

Clara rejects the romantic overtures of young Johannes Brahms, who'd fancied her since he unexpectedly showed up on the Schummans' doorstep some years earlier. The widow Schumann determines to return to performing, and becomes a zealous advocate of her dear departed's work.

Kate Hepburn does remarkably well mimicking a concert pianist (performances are by Artur Rubenstein). Kudos to Henry Daniell for his portrayal of Franz Liszt. "Song of Love" is a period melodrama filled with glorious music and interesting people.


Related item:
The earlier COLUMBIA bio, A SONG TO REMEMBER (1945) explores the life and career of another Romantic-era composer, Frédéric Chopin.


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.

(6.6) Song of Love (1947) - Katharine Hepburn/Paul Henreid/Robert Walker/Henry Daniell/Leo G.Carroll/George Chakiris