The Melody Man
Cast & Crew
R. William Neill
William Collier Jr.
Alice Day
John St. Polis
Johnny Walker
Mildred Harris
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Synopsis
Earl von Kemper, a famous Viennese composer, has scored a great success with his Dream Rhapsody at a concert for the emperor and empress, but when he finds the woman he loves entertaining Crown Prince Friedrich in her boudoir, he shoots and kills him and escapes to the United States with his daughter. Fifteen years later, in New York, the musician is earning his living by playing his violin, with Gustav and Adolph, at a small restaurant. Elsa, his talented daughter, becomes acquainted with Al Tyler, a young jazz musician, and secretly arranges scores for his band; when they replace Kemper's trio at the café, he refuses to let his daughter associate with the jazz artists. Al happens to hear Dream Rhapsody, and Elsa arranges a jazz version that Al makes famous; but Baden, the Austrian Minister of Police, hears and recognizes it. Kemper, about to be apprehended, leaves the young lovers on the pretext of returning for a European engagement.
Director
R. William Neill
Cast
William Collier Jr.
Alice Day
John St. Polis
Johnny Walker
Mildred Harris
Albert Conti
Tenen Holtz
Lee Kohlmar
Bertram Marburgh
Anton Vaverka
Major Nichols
Crew
Harry Cohn
G. R. Cooper
Dave Dreyer
Henry Freulich
Howard J. Green
Arthur Johnston
John P. Livadary
Ballard Macdonald
Sam Nelson
James Seymour
Ted Tetzlaff
Leonard Wheeler
Harrison Wiley
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