Intermezzo (1939 film)
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Directed by | Gregory Ratoff |
Produced by | David O. Selznick |
Written by | George O'Neil |
Starring | Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman Edna Best John Halliday Cecil Kellaway |
Music by | Max Steiner Heinz Provost |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date(s) | 1939 |
Running time | 70 min |
Language | English |
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Intermezzo (also called Intermezzo: A Love Story) is a 1939 romantic film made in the USA by producer David O. Selznick and director Gregory Ratoff. It is a remake of a 1936 Swedish film.
It stars Leslie Howard as a (married) virtuoso violinist who falls in love with his accompanist, played by Ingrid Bergman in her Hollywood debut.
It featured Oscar-nominated cinematography by Gregg Toland (later to film Citizen Kane) and a stirring main theme in Heinz Provost's piece of the same name (written before the film).
[edit] Radio adaptations
Ingrid Bergman was in a radio adaptation of Intermezzo on Lux Radio Theater on January 29, 1940, which also starred Herbert Marshall. She was also in another adaptation on the same show on June 4, 1945 with Joseph Cotten.