Waltz Time (1945 film) explained

Waltz Time
Producer:Louis H. Jackson
Music:Hans May
Cinematography:Ernest Palmer
Editing:Douglas Myers
Studio:British National Films
Distributor:Anglo-American Film Corporation
Runtime:98 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina.[1]

Premise

In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.

Reception

According to Kinematograph Weekly the film performed well at the British box office in 1945.[2] The 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1945 Britain was The Seventh Veil, with "runners up" being (in release order), Madonna of the Seven Moons, Old Acquaintance, Frenchman's Creek, Mrs Parkington, Arsenic and Old Lace, Meet Me in St Louis, A Song to Remember, Since You Went Away, Here Come the Waves, Tonight and Every Night, Hollywood Canteen, They Were Sisters, The Princess and the Pirate, The Adventures of Susan, National Velvet, Mrs Skefflington, I Live in Grosvenor Square, Nob Hill, Perfect Strangers, Valley of Decision, Conflict and Duffy's Tavern. British "runners up" were They Were Sisters, I Live in Grosvenor Square, Perfect Strangers, Madonna of the Seven Moons, Waterloo Road, Blithe Spirit, The Way to the Stars, I'll Be Your Sweetheart, Dead of Night, Waltz Time and Henry V.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | WALTZ TIME (1945) . https://web.archive.org/web/20090113222311/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/9712 . dead . 2009-01-13 . Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk . 2009-04-16 . 2012-03-13.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&dq=hungry+hill+film+box+office&pg=PA209 Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p 208
  3. Book: Lant, Antonia. 232. Blackout : reinventing women for wartime British cinema. 1991 . Princeton University Press .