The Great Waltz (film)

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The Great Waltz is a 1938 film starring Luise Rainer, Fernand Garvet (Garvey) and Miliza Korjus who received an academy award nomination for her proformance.

The film is a loosely based bio-pic of Johann Strauss, critics have claimed that the film is really nothing more than a love triangle covered up by many, many waltz's, some sung by Korjus, who was, and plays, a famous opera soprano. It was Garvey's last pre-1950 English Language film, and was to be the only starring role of Miliza Korjus. Rainer received top billing on the Producers insistence but her role is compairitively minor as Strauss' wife, Poldi Volgelhuber, (although she is photographed beautifully in the film, especially in the scene when she learns that Garvet's character is having an affair with Korjus).

[edit] External links

• The Great Waltz at the Internet Movie Database