Rhapsody in Blue

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Rhapsody in Blue

film by Rapper [1945]

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Irving Rapper
Heyday at Warner Brothers
Rapper returned to biopics with Rhapsody in Blue (1945), which centred on the Gershwin brothers—Robert Alda as George and Herbert Rudley as Ira; Oscar Levant, a longtime friend of George’s, played himself. The acclaimed music and solid performances compensated for the film’s fanciful embroidering of the facts. In 1946 Rapper…
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Rapper returned to biopics with Rhapsody in Blue (1945), which centred on the Gershwin brothers—Robert Alda as George and Herbert Rudley as Ira; Oscar Levant, a longtime friend of George’s, played himself. The acclaimed music and solid performances compensated for the film’s fanciful embroidering of the facts. In 1946 Rapper…
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