City of Song
1931 film by Carmine Gallone
- C.H. Dand
- Miles Malleson
- Hans Székely
- Arnold Pressburger
- Isidore Schlesinger
- Bernard Vorhaus
- Jan Kiepura
- Betty Stockfeld
- Heather Angel
Arpad Viragh
- Paul Abraham
- Philip Braham
- Ernesto Tagliaferri
Production
companies
companies
Cine-Allianz Tonfilm
Tobis Film
Tobis Film
Release date
- 9 January 1931 (1931-01-09)
Running time
United Kingdom
City of Song, also known as Farewell to Love, is a 1931 British/German romance film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Betty Stockfeld and Hugh Wakefield.[1] It was shot at Wembley Studios.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Oscar Friedrich Werndorff and J. Elder Wills. A German-language version was released in 1930 under the title The Singing City.
Plot
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protégé.
Cast
- Jan Kiepura as Giovanni Cavallone
- Betty Stockfeld as Claire Winter
- Hugh Wakefield as Hon. Roddy Fielding
- Heather Angel as Carmela
- Franz Maldacea as Chi, a boy of the streets
- Philip Easton as John, an artist
- Miles Malleson as Theater Watchman
References
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links
- City of Song at IMDb
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Films directed by Carmine Gallone
- Il bacio di Cirano (1913)
- The Naked Truth (1914)
- Senza colpa! (1915)
- Flower of Evil (1915)
- The Wedding March (1915)
- Sotto le tombe (1915)
- Avatar (1916)
- La falena (1916)
- Malombra (1917)
- The Thirteenth Man (1917)
- La storia di un peccato (1918)
- Redemption (1919)
- A Doll Wife (1919)
- The Sea of Naples (1919)
- On with the Motley (1920)
- The Faces of Love (1924)
- The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
- The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
- Pawns of Passion (1928)
- Land Without Women (1929)
- Ship in Distress (1929)
- The Singing City (1930)
- City of Song (1931)
- My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
- A Son from America (1932)
- Sailor's Song (1932)
- Going Gay (1933)
- My Heart Calls You (1934)
- Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
- My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
- My Heart is Calling (1935)
- Casta Diva (1935)
- If It Were Not for Music (1935)
- The Divine Spark (1935)
- Thank You, Madame (1936)
- Mother Song (1937)
- Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
- Marionette (1939)
- The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
- Eternal Melodies (1940)
- Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
- Manon Lescaut (1940)
- Beyond Love (1940)
- The Secret Lover (1941)
- First Love (1941)
- The Two Orphans (1942)
- The Queen of Navarre (1942)
- Odessa in Flames (1942)
- Harlem (1943)
- Sad Loves (1943)
- The Song of Life (1945)
- Biraghin (1946)
- Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
- The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
- The Legend of Faust (1949)
- The Force of Destiny (1950)
- Night Taxi (1950)
- Messalina (1951)
- We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
- Fatal Desire (1953)
- Puccini (1953)
- Madame Butterfly (1954)
- House of Ricordi (1954)
- Casta Diva (1954)
- Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
- Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
- Michel Strogoff (1956)
- Tosca (1956)
- Carthage in Flames (1960)
- Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
- Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
- La monaca di Monza (1962)
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