Product Details

• Actors: José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel, Doe Avedon, Walter Pidgeon
• Directors: Stanley Donen
• Writers: Elliott Arnold, Leonard Spigelgass
• Producers: Roger Edens
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: February 24, 1995
• Run Time: 132 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630196778X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,580 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful music, June 29, 2002

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Kona (Emerald City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deep in My Heart [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you're a fan of show music from the thirties and forties, you are sure to enjoy "Deep in My Heart." As the story opens, Signund Romberg (Jose Ferrer), composer and recent immigrant to New York, is playing the piano at his friend (Helen Traubel)'s cafe in the early 1900s. One day he is discovered, and begins writing popular music and scores for the Shubert shows on Broadway, including "May Time" and "The Desert Song." He is mentored by actress Dorothy Donnelly (Merle Oberon), who also writes the story for his hugely successful show, "The Student Prince." He falls in love with a young lady at a summer resort and, with Dorothy's help, marries her.

This 1954 film features a song-and-dance number from each of Romberg's musicals, performed by popular guest stars. Ferrer sings and dances surprisingly well, and gives a light-hearted performance. If you are already familiar with Romberg's tunes, you'll find yourself singing along. It's done in the old MGM-style with beautiful color, sumptious sets and costumes, and wholesome family values. An uplifting, entertaining movie.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Uneven (like most bios), but not without its rarities., May 2, 2003

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Chris Aldridge (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deep in My Heart [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film is a curiosity more than anything else. I rented it years ago and found it uneven at best. Like most of MGM's alleged 'composer biographies,' it distorts the details of the composer's actual life (in this case, Broadway stage/operetta afficionado Sigmund Romberg) and hangs all of his magnificent songs on an all-star coatrack. And there lies the attraction: seeing Gene Kelly in his only on-screen appearance with real-life brother Fred; seeing Jose Ferrer's bride Rosemary Clooney in her fresh-faced beauty and ear-delicious voice; watching grande dame soprano Helen Traubel sing "Aufwiedersen" to a dying Merle Oberon; and most of all seeing Ann Miller blend the Charleston with her signature tap dancing (I'm not kidding) and superbabe Cyd Charisse in probably the single most erotic dance performed on film: an Arabian Nights-influenced duet with James Mitchell to the song "One Alone." And how she moves in that all-lace, form-fitting gown is anyone's guess.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music, Cast, and Film, February 11, 2001

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Bruce Kofoed (Twin Falls, ID, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deep in My Heart [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A biography of Sigmund Romberg, the musical and operetta composer. Anything which features his music must have some good features, but this is superlative all the way around. Jose Ferrer is charming as Rommie, Merle Oberon gives a nice performance as his love interest, and the list of cameos is starry, with Rosemary Clooney shining in one number and the great operatice soprano Helen Traubel singing "Softly" as it must be, a touching plea full of torment, angst, and ultimately acceptance. Beautiful technicolor, good direction. Very amusing, filled with some of the best songs ever written, and beautifully performed and captured on film.