Tonight: the 1938 production The Great Waltz
Starring Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet, Miliza Korjus
with Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill

A spectacular musical set in Old Vienna, based on the life and music of 'The Waltz King' - Johann Strauss.
The music for The Great Waltz is all taken from the works of Johann Strauss and adapted and arranged by Dmitri Tiomkin. Many of the famous melodies have been adapted as songs for Miliza Korjus with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Arthur Gutman conducts a ninety-piece orchestra which includes a group of twelve Stradivarius violins borrowed from the collection of Erich Lachmann. In addition Toscha Seidel, the soloist, plays his famous Da Vinci Stradivarius.
The distinguished French director Julien Duvivier, whose reputation gained from Un Carnet de Bal took him to Hollywood, brings his characteristically fluid camera style to tonight's film. He later went on to direct Vivien Leigh in Alexander Korda's production of Anna Karenina.