DEEP IN MY HEART

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CREDITS

1954, 132 minutes, Eastmancolor.
Producer, Roger Edens; Director, Stanley Donen; Screenplay, Leonard Spielgass; Cinematography, George Folsey; Choreography, Eugene Loring.

CAST

Sigmund Romberg, Jose Ferrer; Dorothy Donnelly, Merle Oberon; Anna Mueller, Helen Traubel; Lillian Romberg, Doe Avedon; J.J. Shubert, Walter Pidgeon; Florenz Ziegfeld, Paul Henreid; Gaby Deslys, Tamara Toumanova; Bert Townsend, Paul Stewart; Mrs. Harris, Isobel Elsom; Lazar Berrison, David Burns.
Guest Stars:
Rosemary Clooney, Gene and Fred Kelly, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse, Howard Keel, Tony Martin, William Olvis, James Mitchell, Joan Weldon.

SONGS

By Sigmund Romberg:
The Leg Of Mutton Rag; The Desert Song; Riff Song.
I Love To Go Swimmin' With Women with Ballard MacDonald.
The Road To Paradise; Will You Remember? with Rida Johnson Young.
Mr. and Mrs. with Cyrus Wood.
Lover Come Back To Me; You Will Remember Vienna; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; Stout-Hearted Men; Softly As In A Morning Sunrise with Oscar Hammerstein II.
It; One Alone with Hammerstein and Otto Harbach.
Serenade; Your Land And My Land; Deep In My Heart with Dorothy Donnelly.
I Love To Say Hello with Alex Gerber.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

". . .scenarist Leonard Spigelgass, working from a biography of the composer [Sigmund Romberg] by Elliott Arnold, came up with the usual ladder-of-fame narrative, showing the composer's step-by-step rise to Broadway eminence after humble beginnings as a musician in a modest Second Avenue cafe owned by Anna Mueller. . .A song plugger. . .persuades Romberg to up-tempo his approach to music, and the result is 'The Leg Of Mutton Rag,' Romberg's first commercial success. . .A string of minor shows for the Shubert brothers followed, until Maytime - whose success resulted in two Broadway productions of it appearing at the same time."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"Taking the usual liberties with the facts, scenarist Leonard Spielgass. . .came up with the usual ladder-of-fame narrative. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Standard fictionalized biopic with plenty of good turns and a sharper script than usual."
- Halliwell's Film Guide

Rosemary Clooney was married to Jose Ferrer at the time of filming.

Deep In My Heart was one of the top-grossing films of 1954. See Box Office Hits

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