They Shall Have Music (1939)
The THRILL of great music... the LAUGHTER of youth... the TENDERNESS of age
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
- Date of release
- 1939-08-18
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Family, Music, Drama
- Director
- Archie Mayo
Casting
- Jascha Heifetz — Himself
- Joel McCrea — Peter McCarthy
- Andrea Leeds — Ann Lawson
- Gene Reynolds — Frankie
- Walter Brennan — Professor Lawson
- Terry Kilburn — Limey
- Tommy Kelly — Willie
- Porter Hall — Mr. Flower
- Walter Tetley — Rocks Mulligan
- Chuck Stubbs — Fever
- Gale Sherwood — Betty
- Alfred Newman — Musical Director
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
They Shall Have Music is a 1939 musical film directed by Archie Mayo and starring famed violinist Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, and Gene Reynolds. The screenplay concerns a young runaway who finds his purpose in life after hearing Heifetz play, and the kindly master of a music school in financial difficulty takes him in. At the time the film was made, there were a number of music settlement schools in New York City; the Chatham Square Music School on Manhattan's Lower East Side was the model. The story of the school was also inspired in part by the career of the violinist Hedi Katz, who gave up performing to work with poor children.
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