The Melody Man (1930)
68 mins | Drama | 15 January 1930
Director:
Roy William NeillProducer:
Harry CohnEditor:
Len WheelerProduction Designer:
Harrison WileyProduction Company:
Columbia Pictures Corp.According to the Var review, which listed the title as Melody Man, the film included a color sequence "at the opening" that ran for approximately twelve minutes. The play The Melody Man, written by composers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart under the joint pseudonym of Herbert Richard Lorenz, starred Lew Fields in its short Broadway run. Fields also starred in a roadshow version of the play that was entitled Henky and was staged in Chicago and other cities in 1924. ...
According to the Var review, which listed the title as Melody Man, the film included a color sequence "at the opening" that ran for approximately twelve minutes. The play The Melody Man, written by composers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart under the joint pseudonym of Herbert Richard Lorenz, starred Lew Fields in its short Broadway run. Fields also starred in a roadshow version of the play that was entitled Henky and was staged in Chicago and other cities in 1924.
Earl von Kemper, a famous Viennese composer, has scored a great success with his Dream Rhapsody at a concert for the emperor and empress, but when he finds the woman he loves entertaining Crown Prince Friedrich in her boudoir, he shoots and kills him and escapes to the United States with his daughter. Fifteen years later, in New York, the musician is earning his living by playing his violin, with Gustav and Adolph, at a small restaurant. Elsa, his talented daughter, becomes acquainted with Al Tyler, a young jazz musician, and secretly arranges scores for his band; when they replace Kemper's trio at the café, he refuses to let his daughter associate with the jazz artists. Al happens to hear Dream Rhapsody, and Elsa arranges a jazz version that Al makes famous; but Baden, the Austrian Minister of Police, hears and recognizes it. Kemper, about to be apprehended, leaves the young lovers on the pretext of returning for a European ...
Earl von Kemper, a famous Viennese composer, has scored a great success with his Dream Rhapsody at a concert for the emperor and empress, but when he finds the woman he loves entertaining Crown Prince Friedrich in her boudoir, he shoots and kills him and escapes to the United States with his daughter. Fifteen years later, in New York, the musician is earning his living by playing his violin, with Gustav and Adolph, at a small restaurant. Elsa, his talented daughter, becomes acquainted with Al Tyler, a young jazz musician, and secretly arranges scores for his band; when they replace Kemper's trio at the café, he refuses to let his daughter associate with the jazz artists. Al happens to hear Dream Rhapsody, and Elsa arranges a jazz version that Al makes famous; but Baden, the Austrian Minister of Police, hears and recognizes it. Kemper, about to be apprehended, leaves the young lovers on the pretext of returning for a European engagement.
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