Harmony Lane

1935
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1h 29m

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Adrienne Ames, Douglass Montgomery, and Evelyn Venable in Harmony Lane (1935)

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The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

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This film received its earliest documented telecast in the New York City area Sunday 1 June 1947 on WCBS (Channel 2). In Baltimore, it first aired Sunday 11 April 1948 on WMAR (Channel 2), in Chicago Saturday 31 July 1948 on WGN (Channel 9), in Philadelphia Sunday 15 August 1948 on WPTZ (Channel 3), in Cincinnati Saturday 11 September 1948 on WLW-T (Channel 4), in Washington DC Thursday 10 February 1949 on WOIC (Channel 9), and in Salt Lake City Sunday 24 July 1949 on KDYL (Channel 4).

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At the end of the movie, singer/composer/showman Edwin Pearce Christy, the founder of the blackface group Christy's Minstrels, announces the death of Stephen Foster at a benefit performance. Foster died on January 13, 1864. Christy could not have delivered the eulogy as he took his own life two years earlier on May 21, 1862, while facing financial ruin brought on by the Civil War.

Quotes
Stephen Foster: [Finishes playing a song] That's it. Now if I could only get a lyric.
Susan Pentland: You might sell it?
Stephen Foster: And if I did, I could buy you such lovely things. A parasol. Blue... to match your lavender dress.
Susan Pentland: [laughs] That would be nice.
Stephen Foster: And all sorts of surprises. A little white cottage. The one that has always been waiting for you and for me. With hollyhocks... maybe some moonbeams... maybe fields of sunflowers that run all the way into the horizon.
Susan Pentland: All that with just one song?
Stephen Foster: I'd write some more. Then you and I could be together always. Would you like that?
Susan Pentland: Yes, Stephen.
Stephen Foster: Just you and I.
Susan Pentland: [laughs] And the piano.
Stephen Foster: By all means, the piano.
[They laugh]

Connections
Featured in Bamboozled (2000)

Soundtracks
Oh! Susanna
Written by Stephen Foster
Whistled and later sung by Douglass Montgomery
Also performed in different tableaus in different parts of the world

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Harmony Lane review

The life story of songwriter, Stephen Foster, whose songs have now fallen largely into disrepute. Surprisingly good biopic from Poverty Row outfit Mascot, anchored by a strong performance from Montgomery who walks the tightrope between naïve, idealistic youth and embittered, disillusioned drunk without once losing his footing. Poignant and moving if you can get past our modern-day aversion to racial stereotyping. And there must be many, many men would have permitted the lovely Adrienne Ames to destroy them...