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A Song to Remember Overview:

A Song to Remember (1945) was a Biographical - Drama Film directed by Charles Vidor and produced by Louis F. Edelman and Sidney Buchman.

Academy Awards 1945 --- Ceremony Number 18 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActorCornel WildeNominated
Best CinematographyTony Gaudio, Allen M. DaveyNominated
Best Film EditingCharles NelsonNominated
Best Music - ScoringMiklos Rozsa, Morris StoloffNominated
Best WritingErnst MarischkaNominated

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A Song to Remember Quotes:

George Sand: [to Chopin] Discontinue that so-called Polonaise jumble you've been playing for days.

Prof. Joseph Elsner: What's going on here? Is the reception over?
Alfred DeMusset: For some people, yes. For others, just beginning.
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A Song to Remember Facts
To play Chopin's piano solos,Columbia Pictures first attempted to engage Artur Rubinstein, then Vladimir Horowitz. Rubinstein was offended when he was greeted by Columbia president Harry Cohn with a boisterous "Hiya, Ruby!" Horowitz got along better with Cohn, but did not wish to perform the severely cut versions of the Chopin pieces the film required.

Darren McGavin's film debut.

Liberace, who was in 1945 performing as "Freddy Fingerbuster," stated that he got the idea of having an ornate candelabra on his piano from the scene in this film when Merle Oberon carries a candelabra into the darkened salon and places it on the piano to reveal Chopin as the pianist rather than Franz Liszt.

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