Till the Clouds Roll By
About Till the Clouds Roll By
The film opens on the 1927 premiere of Show Boat, then Jerome Kern looks back. He meets mentor Jim Hessler and Hessler's daughter Sally, works in London, misses the Lusitania, and marries Eva Leale at the opening of Oh, Boy!. Sally later runs off when a song he wrote for her goes to Marilyn Miller. He finds her again as he prepares Show Boat. The picture ends in a run of his later songs.
Cast & crew
More about Till the Clouds Roll By
Richard Whorf directed it. Arthur Freed produced it. Guy Bolton is credited on the script. Robert Walker plays Kern. Lucille Bremer plays Sally. Judy Garland plays Marilyn Miller. Harry Stradling and George J. Folsey photographed it. Lennie Hayton directed the music. MGM released it in New York on 5 December 1946. It runs 132 minutes. Kern worked on the production and died before it was finished. Busby Berkeley, Henry Koster, Vincente Minnelli, and George Sidney directed individual sequences without credit.
Themes
Look
Harry Stradling and George J. Folsey photographed the Show Boat opening and the later numbers, in Technicolor.
Music
Lennie Hayton directed the music. The songs are Jerome Kern's, including a short Show Boat and Ol' Man River.
Notes
- Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lena Horne, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Van Heflin, Tony Martin, Virginia O'Brien, and Dinah Shore perform numbers.
- Minnelli shot the Judy Garland scenes. Sidney shot Ol' Man River and the finale.
- The story is a fictionalized life, not a straight record of Kern's career.
- Loew's distributed it.
Scenes
- Kern watches the 1927 Show Boat opening.
- He misses the Lusitania and reaches New York.
- Sally leaves when Marilyn Miller gets the song.
Also available
- Internet Archive (till_the_clouds_roll_by)
- Wikimedia Commons (Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) by Richard Whorf.webm)