City of Song
Appearance
City of Song | |
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Directed by | Carmine Gallone |
Written by | |
Produced by | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Curt Courant Arpad Viragh |
Edited by | Lars Moen |
Music by | |
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Distributed by | Sterling Films |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Countries | Germany United Kingdom |
Language | English |
City of Song, also known as Farewell to Love, is a 1931 British/German romance film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Betty Stockfeld and Hugh Wakefield.[1] It was shot at Wembley Studios.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Oscar Friedrich Werndorff and J. Elder Wills. A German-language version was released in 1930 under the title The Singing City.
Plot
[edit]A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protégé.
Cast
[edit]- Jan Kiepura as Giovanni Cavallone
- Betty Stockfeld as Claire Winter
- Hugh Wakefield as Hon. Roddy Fielding
- Heather Angel as Carmela
- Franz Maldacea as Chi, a boy of the streets
- Philip Easton as John, an artist
- Miles Malleson as Theater Watchman
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
[edit]- City of Song at IMDb
Categories:
- 1931 films
- 1930s romantic musical films
- British romantic musical films
- Films directed by Carmine Gallone
- Films set in Naples
- British multilingual films
- Tobis Film films
- Cine-Allianz films
- Films shot at Wembley Studios
- British black-and-white films
- 1931 multilingual films
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s British films
- English-language romantic musical films
- 1930s British film stubs
- Romantic musical film stubs