Humoresque

Humoresque is a 1946 Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness. The screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold was based upon a novel by Fannie Hurst. Humoresque was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald. In New York City a performance by noted violinist Paul Boray (Garfield) is cancelled. At his apartment, Boray is at rock bottom em... more

Humoresque is a 1946 Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness. The screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold was based upon a novel by Fannie Hurst. Humoresque was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald. In New York City a performance by noted violinist Paul Boray (Garfield) is cancelled. At his apartment, Boray is at rock bottom emotionally. His manager Frederic Bauer (Richard Gaines) is angry with him for misunderstanding what a performing career would be like, and for thinking that music is no longer part of his life as he has lived with it for too long. To the more sympathetic Sid Jeffers (Oscar Levant) he says he has always wanted to do the right thing, but has always been outside of himself looking in. He cannot get back to the kid he once was. In the past, young Paul (Bobby Blake) is choosing a birthday present in a suburban New York Variety store run by Jeffers ... less