Song Without End

Director: George Cukor, Charles Vidor
Genre: Biographical film, Romance Film, Biography, Romantic drama, Musical Drama, Period piece, Biopic [feature], Drama
Year: 1960
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Capucine, Dirk Bogarde, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Alexander Davion, Lyndon Brook, Erland Erlandsen, Hans Unterkircher, Lou Jacobi, Walter Rilla, Martita Hunt, Marcel Dalio, Ivan Desny

Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt (1960) is a biographical film romance made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the picture and was replaced by George Cukor. It was produced by William Goetz from a screenplay by Oscar Millard, revised (uncredited) by Walter Bernstein. The music score was by Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman with music by Franz Liszt, and the cinematography by James Wong Howe and Charles Lang (uncredited).

The film starred Dirk Bogarde as Liszt, Capucine as Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, and Geneviève Page as Marie d'Agoult, with Patricia Morison as George Sand, Alexander Davion as Frédéric Chopin, Lyndon Brook as Richard Wagner, Albert Rueprecht as Prince Felix Lichnowsky, Erland Erlandsen as Sigismond Thalberg, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, and Marcel Dalio.

Columbia Pictures had plans to film The Franz Liszt Story back in 1952. Oscar Saul was hired to write and produce with William Dieterle directing. When this version failed to materialize the studio announced in 1955 that Gottfried Reinhardt had been commissioned to write a new screenplay. Finally in 1958, veteran producer

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