Torch Song (1953)
October 1, 1953Release Date
Torch Song (1953)
October 1, 1953Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Joan Crawford
Jenny Stewart
Michael Wilding
Tye Graham
Gig Young
Cliff Willard
Marjorie Rambeau
Mrs. Stewart
Harry Morgan
Joe Denner
Dorothy Patrick
Martha
James Todd
Philip Norton
Eugene Loring
Gene, the Dance Director
Paul Guilfoyle
Monty Rolfe
Benny Rubin
Charles Maylor
Peter Chong
Peter
Charles Walters
Director
Maidie Norman
Anne
John Michael Hayes
Writer
Nancy Gates
Celia Stewart
Chris Warfield
Chuck Peters
Rudy Render
Singer at Party
I.A.R. Wylie
Writer
Henry Berman
Producer
Mary Benoit
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Sidney Franklin
Producer
John Brascia
Dancer (uncredited)
Charles Schnee
Producer
Ralph Brooks
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Torch Song is a 1953 American Technicolor musical drama film distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding in a story about a Broadway star and her blind rehearsal pianist. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes and Jan Lustig was based upon the story "Why Should I Cry?" by I.A.R. Wylie in a 1949 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The film was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sidney Franklin, Henry Berman and Charles Schnee. Crawford's singing voice was dubbed by India Adams.
Crawford lip-syncs to the recording Adams originally made for Cyd Charisse in a number discarded from the 1953 film, The Band Wagon. That's Entertainment III includes a segment presenting the two numbers side-by-side, in split screen.The film marked Crawford's return to MGM after leaving to studio to join Warner Bros. in 1944. Her original recordings for the soundtrack, which were not used in the film, have survived and have been included in home video releases.