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The Dancing Years is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall, set in Vienna, from 1911 until 1938. It follows a Jewish composer and his love for two women of different social classes, with an ending set against the background of Nazi persecution.
The Dancing Years is a British film based on the musical by Ivor Novello, about a love triangle in pre-First World War Vienna. The film stars Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville and Patricia Dainton, and was released in 1950.
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Runtime. 2 hr 20 min. Production Companies. Associated Television (ATV) Musical. Drama. Based on Book. The story of a young composer and his relationship with a fiery opera star over the course of several decades.
Set in Vienna before and after the First World War, the play tells the story of a composer, a singer and a young girl. It features songs such as Waltz of My Heart, My Life Belongs to You and Primrose.
The Dancing Years: Directed by Harold French. With Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton, Anthony Nicholls.
Overview. The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years. Harold French.
