Song of Love is a biopic starring Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...

, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker

Robert Hudson Walker

Robert Hudson Walker was an American actor. He is probably best known for his role as Bruno Anthony in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train.-Early life:...

, and Leo G. Carroll

Leo G. Carroll

Leo Gratten Carroll was an English-born actor. He was best known for his roles in several Hitchcock films and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Topper.-Early life:...

, directed by Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown was an American film director.-Early life:Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was 11. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both in Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating from the university at the age of...

 and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Hepburn plays Clara Wieck, Henreid plays Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

, Walker plays Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

, and Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell was an English actor, best known for his villainous movie roles, but who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films....

 plays Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

. The screenplay was co-authored by Ivan Tors

Ivan Tors

Ivan Tors was a Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer with an emphasis on non-violent but exciting science fiction, underwater filmed television and films, and films about animals...

, Irma von Cube

Irma von Cube

Irma von Cube was a German-American screenwriter. She began as an actress and a writer for films in Germany in the early 1930s, and continued when she arrived in the United States in 1938....

, Allen Vincent, and Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey was an American playwright and screenwriter who returned to his academic training in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s....

, based on a play by Bernard Schubert and Mario Silva

Mario Silva

Mario Silva, is a Canadian politician and a former Canadian Member of Parliament. Silva is a former a Toronto City Councillor and acting mayor."Acting Mayor" is a non-elected position. For example, the sets out the duties and powers of their Acting Mayor. Other cities will no doubt have somewhat...

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Hepburn trained intensively with a pianist so that she could be filmed playing the piano. When Henreid is playing piano, the hands of Ervin Nyíregyházi

Ervin Nyíregyházi

Ervin Nyíregyházi was a Hungarian-born American pianist.-Childhood and early career:...

 are seen. The soundtrack for the picture was recorded by Artur Rubinstein.

External links

• Song of Love at IMDB
• Song of Love at TCM Movie Database