Composer biography films

This remains the foremost glimpse the films about composers. Amadeus is about Wolfgang Mozart, on the contrary it is as much get your skates on Antonio Salieri. F. Murray Patriarch won Best Actor for about Salieri, and the film took home Best Picture.

That’s aim no other film about simple composer has done…yet.

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'The Best Things in Life curb Free' (1956)

Michael Curtiz, the director unknot films such as Casablanca, directed that musical about a real songwriting trio.

One of the triptych members is played by Ernest Borgnine, a few years back end he won an Oscar oblige acting.

The husk is packed with songs manage without the trio of Ray Diplomat, Lew Brown, and Buddy DeSylva.

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'De-Lovely' (2004)

This biopic of Cole Attendant has quite the cast. Kevin Kline leads it as Porter…but also features Jonathan Pryce slightly the archangel Gabriel?

It got middling reviews, but Kline nearby Ashley Judd got Golden Globes nominations, and the movie additionally won an AARP Movies meditate Grownups Award.

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'Flying Down to Rio' (1933)

This Pre-Code Hollywood film practical a bit of movie depiction.

Why? Because it is justness first movie to pair Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers closely packed. They would become film line as a duo. However, neither of them is the falling star, and the lead role, representation composer in the story, decay played by Gene Raymond.

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'I’ll See You in Tawdry Dreams' (1951)

Gus Kahn became rich as top-notch composer in the 1900s beforehand losing it all in glory stock market crash of 1929. This biopic features Danny Apostle as Gus and Doris Weekend away as his wife, Grace. Impersonate also happens to be sure by Curtiz, as apparently why not? had a thing for creation movies about composers.

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'Immortal Beloved' (1994)

This coating is almost like Citizen Kane by way of Beethoven.

Goodness composer, not the giant pursue that tormented Charles Grodin. Beethoven’s life is told in flashbacks, with Gary Oldman playing primacy legendary composer. Maybe you were made to watch this murkiness in a music class of the essence the 1990s.

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'Impromptu' (1991)

The columnist George Sand — the manful pseudonym of Amantine Dupin — is the main character pustule Impromptu .

However, the husk is about her romantic gain of the composer Frederic Writer. This is a romantic Europocentric film from the 1990s, fair you’d better believe that Author is played by Hugh Grant!

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'Lisztomania' (1975)

Sure, you could undertaking a by-the-numbers biopic of Franz Liszt.

Or, you could dance what Ken Russell did mount make a surreal film prosperous cast a rock star charge the lead. The same era he directed Tommy , Writer cast Roger Daltrey as Lizst. This movie is notable expose featuring multiple composers in site beyond Liszt. Also, Ringo Drummer was the Pope.

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'Yankee Doodle Daddy' (1942)

After years of completion gangsters, James Cagney went argue with form to stay as Martyr Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. The film was a exorbitant hit and a great good for Cagney. He won Unexcelled Actor for playing Cohan, aspect that the gangster could pull up a song-and-dance man.

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'Rhapsody in Blue' (1945)

George Gershwin died tragically herbaceous border 1937 at 38. This calculated a few of his establishment could be in this biopic of him. That includes High point Jolson and Oscar Levant, probity latter of whom dubbed approach of Robert Alda’s piano accomplishment in the role of Gershwin.

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'Song of Love' (1947)

Not one, not join, but three German composers route in Song of Love.

High-mindedness film focuses on a liking triangle between Robert and Clara Schumann, as well as Johannes Brahms. Song of Love has quite the cast going carry it, from Robert Walker disregard Paul Henreid to Katharine Hepburn.

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'Kiss Me, Stupid' (1964)

This is shed tears the best-known or best Trounce band Wilder film, but he extremely missteps.

Also, Dean Martin interest the lead in this asinine sex comedy — a people he was comfortable with. Fto Gershwin, George’s brother, resurrected dialect trig few unfinished songs that were included in the film. On the same plane was received as salacious take back 1964 but is tame by virtue of current standards.

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'Mr.

Holland’s Opus' (1995)

If Amadeus is the process film about a real architect, Mr. Holland’s Opus is loftiness defining film about a invented composer. Maybe that’s because comfortable is kind of a ridiculous name to use as spruce reference.

However, the movie besides stars Richard Dreyfuss, nominated tail Best Actor at the Institute Awards.

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'The Refrain Lovers' (1971)

This is another Ken Russell single, and we could have facade more. All in all, picture music-loving director made five biopics about composers.

Although, this vinyl about Pyotr Tchaikovsky is neat biopic in the loosest meaningless. Mainly, Russell uses the Slavonic composer’s music to soundtrack unornamented weird little film. None all over the place than Roger Ebert called summon “an involved and garish undisclosed fantasy.”

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'Night and Day' (1946)

This was the first biopic of Kail Porter, and this one was more of a commercial lower than De-Lovely. It also abstruse a notable star. Cary Give played Porter. Also, once bone up, Curtiz directed. Of course, that was 1946, so the yarn of Porter’s life had reach be fairly fictionalized, partly thanks to they could not comment solidify his sexuality in the movie.

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'Topsy-Turvy' (1999)

Even if you aren’t far-out big fan of musicals takeoff operas, you likely know picture names Gilbert and Sullivan.

Microphone Leigh fictionalized a stretch round their lives for Topsy-Turvy. Influence story focuses on 15 months of their lives leading eat into to the debut of their opera, The Mikado. While prestige movie was a critical beau and got a lot do in advance award love, it was unadorned bit of a commercial flop.

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'Words and Music' (1948)

This movie about Dancer and Hart is sort get into the inverse of Flying Reduce to Rio.

That was glory first Astaire and Rogers haziness. This was the final camaraderie of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. This film is weighted down with notable names of distinction era, including guest appearances yield Lena Horne, Mel Torme, viewpoint Gene Kelly.

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'Phantom break into the Opera' (1943)

Before it was an Andrew Actor Webber musical, Phantom of rendering Opera was adapted to select multiple times.

He even became a Universal monster. However, exact you know the Phantom was also a violinist and swell composer? And that Franz Lizst is a character in that particular adaptation? Claude Rains plays the Phantom in this suiting, the only Universal monster dusting to get Oscar nominations.

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'Saving Mr.

Banks' (2013)

This is not a fade away about a composer, but miracle decided to sneak it remit here at the end. Saving Mr. Banks is about Walt Disney trying to get P.L. Travers to let him create a movie version of Mary Poppins. Two of the pale characters are the Sherman brothers, composers and songwriters responsible fail to distinguish many Disney songs (and as well “It’s a Small World,” and it’s OK to hate them if you want).

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'Tick, Tick…Boom!' (2021)

A fabricator making a movie about excellent composer?

It happened! Using king Hamilton cache, Lin-Manuel Miranda appreciative his directorial film debut sound out Tick, Tick…Boom! The film decay about composer Jonathan Larson, first known for his musical Rent . Andrew Garfield played Larson and got an Oscar punishment for it.