Balalaika (film)
1939 film by Reinhold Schünzel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Balalayka (film).
Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name.[1] Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.
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Balalaika | |
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Directed by | Reinhold Schünzel |
Written by | Leo Gordon Charles Bennett Jacques Deval |
Based on | Balalaika by Eric Maschwitz |
Produced by | Lawrence Weingarten |
Starring | Nelson Eddy Ilona Massey |
Cinematography | Ernst Matray Joseph Ruttenberg Karl Freund |
Edited by | George Boemler |
Music by | George Posford Bernard Grun Herbert Stothart |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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The film follows the romance of Prince Peter Karagin and Lydia Pavlovna Marakova, a singer and secret revolutionary, in Imperial Russia on the eve of World War I. Douglas Shearer was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Sound Recording.[2]