Deep in My Heart
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Deep in My Heart (1954) is an MGM biographical musical about the life of composer Sigmund Romberg. Leonard Spigelglass adapted the film from Elliott Arnold's 1949 biography of the same name. Stanley Donen directed and Eugene Loring choreographed. José Ferrer played Romberg, with support from Helen Traubel ad a fictional character and Merle Oberon as Dorothy Donnelly.
The film primarily consists of a series of cameo turns by nearly every significant singer or dancer on the MGM lot at the time, including Cyd Charisse, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone, Howard Keel, Gene Kelly and his brother Fred Kelly (their only on-screen appearance together), Tony Martin, Ann Miller, James Mitchell, Jane Powell, and the ballerina Tamara Toumanova. Robert Easton and Russ Tamblyn both make uncredited appearances.
Although a box-office success in 1954, the film has never been released on DVD in the United States; it does exist in VHS and laserdisc formats (both currently out of print). The soundtrack, however, was made available on iTunes in 2006.
[edit] Further reading
- Silverman, Stephen M. Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and his Movies. New York: Knopf, 1996. ISBN 0679414126.
