Rhapsody
6.2
“M-G-M's Magnificent Drama of Music and Romance”
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
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Cast
16 people
Elizabeth Taylor
Louise Durant
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Birgit Nielsen
Madeleine
Vittorio Gassman
Paul Bronte
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John Ericson
James Guest
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Louis Calhern
Nicholas Durant
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Michael Chekhov
Prof. Schuman
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Spellbound
Barbara Bates
Effie Cahill
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Richard Hageman
Bruno Fürst
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Richard Lupino
Otto Krafft
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Celia Lovsky
Frau Sigerlist
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Soylent Green
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Stuart Whitman
Dove
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
The Comancheros
Madge Blake
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Charles Vidor Director · Michael Kanin Writer Fay Kanin Writer
Worldwide gross $3.3M · Budget $2M · United States release April 16, 1954
Box office
Budget
$1,979,000
Worldwide gross
$3,292,000
Gross vs. budget
1.7×
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · April 16, 1954
Theatrical
Austria
September 10, 1954 · Theatrical
Russia
May 3, 1960 · Theatrical
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