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Song of Norway is a 1970 American biographical drama musical film adaptation of the successful operetta of the same name, directed by Andrew L. Stone.. Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music.
The Song of Bernadette (1943) (included on the soundtrack CD, reinstated on the Blu-Ray release) Since You Went Away (1944) Spellbound (1945) Duel in the Sun (1946) (oddly features 2 overtures, a 9 1/2-minute "prelude", and a 3-minute "overture", in which a voice-over speaks positively about the film over the music playing) Samson and Delilah ...
Song of Norway is an operetta written in 1944 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Edvard Grieg and the book by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran.A very loose film adaptation with major changes to both the book and music was released in 1970.
In 2008, a Blu-ray disc of How The West Was Won was released, offering a recreation of Cinerama for home viewing. [26] ... 1970 Song of Norway: Super Panavision 70:
In 1970 Poretta made his only film appearance in the musical film Song of Norway in which he once again portrayed Nordraak, this time opposite Florence Henderson and Toralv Maurstad. [21] In 1957 he sang the role of Charlie in the studio cast recording of Brigadoon with Shirley Jones, Jack Cassidy, and Susan Johnson. [22]
A testament to his position in Norwegian theatre came when in the 1970s he co-starred with Liv Ullmann in a critically acclaimed Broadway-staging of Ibsen's A Doll's House in New York City. In 1974 the King of Norway made him a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and in March 2007, Maurstad was appointed a Commander of ...
Margreth Olin’s “Songs of Earth,” Norway’s Oscar entry for the international feature film race, has been bought by Strand Releasing for North American distribution. The documentary feature ...
Stone made a musical for ABC Pictures titled Song of Norway (1970), a $3.5 million musical biopic of Edvard Grieg. [2] The film performed reasonably well, but his next film The Great Waltz (1972) was a big flop. [10] In 1977, he did some work for Universal on the action and disaster sequences for Rollercoaster.