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The Dancing Years

Movie·1950·Romance, Drama, Music·1h 38m·Directed by Harold French

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The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years

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Dennis PriceDennis PriceRudi KleiberGisèle PrévilleGisèle PrévilleMaria ZeiterPatricia DaintonPatricia DaintonGreteAnthony NichollsAnthony NichollsPrince ReinaldtGrey BlakeGrey BlakeFranziMuriel GeorgeMuriel GeorgeHatti
Olive Gilbert
Olive GilbertFrau Kurt
Martin Ross
Martin RossTenor

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