The Dancing Years (film)
The Dancing Years is a 1950 musical British film based on the musical by Ivor Novello.
A preFirst World War love affair between a young composer Dennis Price and a star of the musical stage Giselle Preville falters through a misunderstanding which causes her to leave him and marry a prince Anthony Nicholls.In The New York Times, Bosley Crowther wrote, the British obviously spared no expense in bringing Ivor Novellos The Dancing Years to the screen. For, in the operetta, which came to the Little Carnegie on Saturday, Vienna, before and after the first World War, was never lovelier than it is in the panchromatic shades of Technicolor the singers, ballet corps, sets and staging are as handsome as any conjured up in a fairy tale and the scenarists have not missed a clich in recounting the bittersweet saga of lovelorn artists lives...Mr. Novellos music is pleasing but his plot is painfully transparent...Dennis Price, as the minorleague Johann Strauss of the piece, ages gracefully and is appropriately glum throughout the proceedings. As the operetta star and his opposite number, Giselle Preville is attractive, wears the clothes of the period 19101926 with distinction and does well vocally by a lilting number titled, Waltz of My Heart. One of Miss Previlles lines, however, is not quite pointed. Vienna, she says at the beginning of this yarn, needs a new composer. Judging by The Dancing Years, Vienna could use a new story. ........
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