Humoresque (1920)
1h 11m
Running Time
May 29, 1920Release Date
Humoresque (1920)
1h 11m
Running Time
May 29, 1920Release Date
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Plot.
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more from him than just music.
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Cast & Crew.
Gaston Glass
Leon Kantor (adult)
Vera Gordon
Mama Kantor
Alma Rubens
Gina Berg (formerly Minnie Ginsberg)
Dore Davidson
Abraham Kantor
Helen Connelly
Esther Kantor (child)
Frank Borzage
Director
Ann Wallack
Esther Kantor (adult) (as Ann Wallick)
Fannie Hurst
Writer
Sidney Carlyle
Mannie Kantor
William LeBaron
Writer
Joseph Cooper
Isadore Kantor (child)
Frances Marion
Writer
Maurice Levigne
Isadore Kantor (adult)
Gilbert Warrenton
Cinematographer
Alfred Goldberg
Rudolph Kantor (child)
Bobby Connelly
Leon Kantor (child)
Edward Stanton
Rudolph Kator (adult)
Louis Stern
Sol Ginsberg (as Louis Stearns)
Maurice Peckre
Boris Kantor
Ruth Sabin
Mrs. Isadore Kantor
Frank Mitchell
Baby Kantor
Miriam Battista
Minnie Ginsberg
Hugo Riesenfeld
Original Music Composer
William Randolph Hearst
Producer
Media.
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Wiki.
Humoresque is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions, released by Famous Players–Lasky and Paramount Pictures, and was directed by Frank Borzage from a 1919 short story by Fannie Hurst and script or scenario by Frances Marion.
This film was the first film to win the Photoplay Medal of Honor, a precursor of the Academy Award for Best Picture.In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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