Legend has it that, before shooting the climactic ball sequence of this comic, fictionalized 1935 biopic of Johann Strauss II, Alfred Hitchcock assembled the entire cast and crew and said, “I hate ...
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His waltzes were a hit from Russia to the US — and female fans swooned over him. And yet, there was also a dark side to the superstar Johann Strauss, who is being celebrated in a series of ...
Among the rarest of Hitchcock’s features, this 1933 film is an anomalous project—a romanticized musical biography of Strauss, featuring the British singing star Jessie Matthews—and not too much should ...