

“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.
Directed by Archie Mayo
User score
12 votes


Released
August 18, 1939
1h 45m
English

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
Mary Ruth
Suzie

John St. Polis
Davis
Alexander Schoenberg
Menken

Marjorie Main
Mrs. Miller

Arthur Hohl
Miller

Paul Harvey
Heifetz' Manager
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Peter Meremblum
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