Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • George Gershwin

      Robert Alda

    • Julie Adams

      Joan Leslie

    • Christine Gilbert

      Alexis Smith

    • Max Dreyfus

      Charles Coburn

    • Lee Gershwin

      Julie Bishop

    • Professor Otto Frank

      Basserman, Albert

    • Poppa Morris Gershwin

      Morris Carnovsky

    • Momma Rosa Gershwin

      Decamp, Rosemary

    • himself

      Oscar Levant

    • himself

      Paul Whiteman

    • himself

      Al Jolson

    • himself

      George White

    • herself

      Hazel Scott

    • herself

      Anne Brown

    • Ira Gershwin

      Herbert Rudley

    • himself, the commentator

      John B. Hughes

    • George Gershwin as a boy

      Mickey Roth

    • Ira Gershwin as a boy

      Darryl Hickman

    • Mr Kast

      Charles Halton

    • Mr Million

      Andrew Tombes

    • Mr Katzman

      Gregory Golubeff

    • Mr Muscatel

      Walter Soderling

    • Buddy De Sylva

      Eddie Marr

    • William Foley

      Theodore Von Eltz

    • Hubert Stone

      Bill Kennedy

    • Maurice Ravel

      Oscar Loraine

    • dancer

      Johnny Downs

    • Otto Kahn

      Ernest Golm

    • Jascha Heifetz

      Martin Noble

    • Walter Damrosch

      Hugo Kirchhoffer

    • Rachmaninoff

      Will Wright

    • [singer]

      Tom Patricola

    • [Christine's escort]

      Robert Shayne

    • [comic]

      George Riley

    • [cashier]

      Virginia Sale

    • [ragged bum]

      Tom Stevenson

    • [prima donna]

      Yola D'avril

    • [receptionist]

      Claire Dubrey

    • [Swedish janitor]

      Christian Rub

    • [housewife]

      Esther Michelson

    • [piano mover]

      Robert Wilbur

    • [nightclub guest]

      Ivan Lebedeff

    • [Madame DeBreteuil]

      Odette Myrtil

    • [orchestra leader]

      Jay Novello

    • [bootblack]

      LeRoy Antoine

    • [headwaiter]

      Jack Chefe

    • [doctor]

      Charles D. Waldron

    • [telephone operator]

      Lillian Bronson

    • [newsboy]

      John Henry Morton

    • [masseur]

      Sam Savitsky

    • [butler]

      Broderick O'Farrell

    • [Sport in 'Porgy and Bess']

      Robert Johnson

    • [Porgy in 'Porgy and Bess']

      William Gillespie

    • [customer in bakery]

      Ernie Adams

    • [music critic]

      John Dilson

    • [hotel clerk]

      Armand Cortes

    • [taxi driver]

      Jacques Lory

    • [theatre manager]

      Edward Harvey

    • [tall man]

      'Big' Ben Moroz

    • [coachman]

      Jesse Graves

    • [painter in gallery]

      Oliver Blake

    • [painter]

      Carl Neubert

    • [man in Turkish bath]

      Clay Womack

    • [man in Turkish bath]

      Frank Pharr

    • [music teacher]

      Kate Harrington

    • [music teacher]

      Walter White

    • [porter]

      Bernard Deroux

    • [porter]

      Fred Dosh

    • [song plugger]

      Harry Seymour

    • [song plugger]

      Joe Sullivan

    • [song plugger]

      Clarence Badger Jr

    • [guest]

      Frank Reicher

    • [guest]

      George Renavent

    • [guest]

      Lynne Baggett

    • [guest]

      Else Schiff-Bassermann

    • [party guest]

      Constance Purdy

    • [party guest]

      Caroline Burke

    • [party guest]

      Milton Mack

    • [party guest]

      Joan Winfield

    • [party guest]

      Ralph McColm

    • [other woman]

      Nelly V. Nichols

    • [clarinetist]

      Al Gallodoro

    • [hotel doorman]

      Gino Corrado

    • [themselves]

      The Warner Choral Singers

    • [singer]

      Mark Stevens

• Credits

  • Unknown:

    • Director

      Irving Rapper

    • Production Company

      Warner Bros.

    • Executive Producer

      Jack L. Warner

    • Producer

      Jesse L. Lasky

    • [Unit Manager]

      Lou Baum

    • [Assistant Director]

      Robert Vreeland

    • [Assistant Director (2nd)]

      Clarence Eurist

    • Dialogue Director

      Felix Jacoves

    • [Script Clerk]

      Meta Rebner

    • Screenplay

      Howard Koch

    • Screenplay

      Elliot Paul

    • [Contributing Writer]

      Harry Chandlee

    • [Contributing Writer]

      Clifford Odets

    • [Contributing Writer]

      Robert Rossen

    • Original Story by

      Sonya Levien

    • Director of Photography

      Sol Polito

    • Additional Musical Numbers Photographed

      Gerstad, Merritt

    • Additional Musical Numbers Photographed

      Ernest Haller

    • [Camera Operator]

      Al Greene

    • [Assistant Camera]

      Frank Evans

    • [Gaffer]

      Charles O'Bannon

    • [Best Boy]

      Jim Peters

    • [Grip]

      Harold Noyes

    • [Stills]

      William Wallace

    • [Stills]

      Mickey Marigold

    • Director of Special Effects

      Roy Davidson

    • Special Effects

      Willard Van Enger

    • Film Editor

      Folmer Blangsted

    • Montages

      James Leicester

    • Art Director

      John Hughes

    • Art Director

      Grot, Anton

    • Set Decorator

      Fred M. Maclean

    • [Props]

      Morris Goldman

    • Gowns

      Milo Anderson

    • [Wardrobe]

      Ted Schultz

    • [Wardrobe]

      Einar H. Bourman

    • [Wardrobe]

      Roy Dumont

    • [Wardrobe]

      Katherine Garabedian

    • [Wardrobe]

      Jeanette Storck

    • Make-up Artist

      Perc Westmore

    • [Make-up]

      Joseph Stinton

    • [Hairstyklist]

      Tillie Starrett

    • [Hairstyklist]

      Geraldine Cole

    • Music and Lyrics by

      George Gershwin

    • Music and Lyrics by

      Ira Gershwin

    • 'Rhapsody in Blue' Piano Solo Recorded b

      Oscar Levant

    • 'Concerto in F' Piano Solo Recorded by

      Oscar Levant

    • Additional Piano Solos Recorded by

      Ray Turner

    • ['Rhapsody in Blue' Clarinet Solo by]

      Al Gallodoro

    • [Vocal Double for Joan Leslie]

      Sally Sweetland

    • [Vocal Double for Joan Leslie]

      Louanne Hogan

    • [Piano Double for Robert Alda]

      Ray Turner

    • [Vocal Double for Mark Stevens]

      Bill Days

    • Music Director

      Leo F. Forbstein

    • 'Rhapsody in Blue' Orchestra Conductor

      Paul Whiteman

    • Orchestral Arrangements

      Ray Heindorf

    • Orchestl Arranger for "Rhapsody in blue"

      Ferde Grofé

    • Vocal Arrangements

      Dudley Chambers

    • Music Adapter

      Max Steiner

    • Dance Numbers Created and Directed by

      LeRoy Prinz

    • Sound

      David Forrest

    • Sound

      Stanley Jones