| Rhapsody | |
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| Directed by | Charles Vidor |
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| Screenplay by | Fay Kanin Michael Kanin |
| Based on | Maurice Guest 1908 novel by Henry Handel Richardson |
| Produced by | Lawrence Weingarten |
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| Cinematography | Robert H. Planck |
| Edited by | John Dunning |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,979,000[1][2] |
| Box office | $3,292,000[1] |
Rhapsody is a 1954 American musical drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, and Louis Calhern based on the 1908 novel Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson.
It revolves around a debutante who follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zürich where he studies violin at a conservatory. There she meets a piano student who falls madly in love with her. She must then choose between this man who loves her more than his music and the violinist who loves his music more than anything else. Rhapsody features music by Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Felix Mendelssohn, Claude Debussy, and Pablo de Sarasate.
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. January 5, 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada