CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

adamshl There's no doubt that Romberg is one of the fine composers of musicals and operettas. Many of his songs are now classics of the American theater.This production tries hard to do justice to the composer's life, career, and love. With so much fine talent recruited for the biopic, it was guaranteed to be at a certain high level.Somewhere things went a bit amiss, and one leaves as much exhausted as inspired. Perhaps some judicious cutting (especially in the mid-section) would have helped. (Personally, I feel Jose Ferrer's "tour de force" one-man presentation at the resort cottage could have been left out.) Running at 132 minutes, it's a long haul.Still, there's the lovely Merle Oberon, silver throated Helen Traubel, and a dozen guest stars in featured production numbers. It seems to me Mr. Ferrer was at his energetic peak at this time and his exuberance simply needed to be reined in (probably by Director Stanley Donen)."Deep in My Heart" remains a fairly good biopic with great talent, variety, and energy. All that's needed is a dinner break.

w22nuschler This is a decent film and has some really nice numbers by some of the great MGM stars of the day. Mel Ferrer stars and does a nice job of filling in the time between the numbers. It is a little slow in parts and probably could have used 20 minutes cut out, but it's still worth a look. Other stars include Walter Pidgeon, who does a nice job in a smaller part. My favorite musical number comes from Jane Powell and Vic Damone. They were perfectly matched in this film because they had the two best voices. Jane looks simply stunning in her long, ruffled, white dress. My other favorite has to be the song and dance number by Gene and Fred Kelly. This is the only time they appeared on film together and they don't disappoint. Howard Keel rounds out the great numbers near the end with a nice number backed by male vocals. Overall not perfect, but the three musical numbers I mentioned are worth watching.

L. Denis Brown I missed this film when it first appeared, and only saw it quite by chance very recently on the TCM channel. I felt it was a rather unappreciated gem that I would like to commend to other IMDb users. It purports to be a biography of early nineteenth century composer Siegmund Romberg. Unfortunately biographies are not Hollywood's strong suite, and this one does not "cut the mustard" as a biography. Romberg was a Central European Jew who came to the U.S.A. as a refugee from the pre-first world war Hapsburg Empire; and made a very successful career as a much admired composer of light music, much of which was coupled with romantic songs written by Dorothy Donnolley for Broadway musicals. Here surely is a great subject for a biography which shows the trauma of being a refugee and the problems of an artist in becoming accepted in a new country with a different language and very different culture. Unfortunately this chance was blown in favour of a script which paraded all the musical stars that MGM could command, presenting re-creations of a series of extracts from his stage successes. However if accepted at this level the film is unusually successful, helped by a great cast and the direction of the often under-rated Stanley Donen. Romberg is remembered for writing light Viennese style romantic orchestral music which was extremely popular in the pre-jazz era, and I was surprised how enjoyable this music made watching the film. For me, and probably others of my generation, the music in more recent musicals does not often compare with that in this film.One of Romberg's best known stage works was 'The Desert Song', which has been filmed three times, (the 1929 version containing more of Romberg's music), and watching an Arabian Nights sequence featuring Cyd Charise and James Mitchell made me very sad that all colour copies of the 1929 film appear to have been lost (although a monochrome version prepared for TV has survived.) The background notes above may be helpful to the many people today who have never heard any of Romberg's music, but as a review of this film the following (which alone would not have satisfied the IMDb 10 line minimum criterion) is all that is needed: This is a perfect film to watch with a life partner, or significant other, at the start of a short vacation together. But it would be better seen in a cinema rather than on TV.

gloandwar If you doubt the summary comment, ask a few of your friends under the age of 55 if they've heard of Sigmund Romberg (Sigmund who)? Since I took piano lessons as a kid - I did - yet when I stumbled upon this film in my local library I thought "when did this come out" (I was in the service overseas at the time). I was totally blown away by the musical score and the performances. By the way, this is about the only musical film I've seen structured as a Broadway musical play - overture through finale. The last number of the first act, so the speak, was Jane Powell and Vic Damone singing "Will you Remember" from "Maytime". This show was such a success a second company opened across the street - only time in Broadway history!See for yourself, then try to find "The Student Prince" and watch that - and listen. He composed about 600 or 700 songs for Broadway. By the way, did you know Gene Kelly had a song and dance man brother? You'll see them together the only time in "Deep in my Heart"