Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Score
Yehudi Menuhin's actual fingers doing impossible Paganini passages.
Costume
Stewart Granger's ruffled pirate-shirts and velvet capes.
Acting
Jean Kent stealing scenes as the spurned lover Bianchi.
Director
Bernard Knowles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yehudi Menuhin was 30 and already world-famous when he ghost-played for Granger; the two never met during filming.
This was part of a 1940s wave of 'genius biopics' that sanitized complicated artists into romantic leads for wartime escapism.
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