City of Song

{{Short description|1931 film by Carmine Gallone}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = City of Song | image =

| caption = | director = [[Carmine Gallone]] | producer = {{ubl|[[Arnold Pressburger]]|[[Isidore Schlesinger]]|[[Bernard Vorhaus]]}} | writer = {{ubl|[[C.H. Dand]]|[[Miles Malleson]]|[[Hans Székely]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Jan Kiepura]]|[[Betty Stockfeld]]|[[Heather Angel (actress)|Heather Angel]]}} | music = {{ubl|[[Paul Abraham]]|[[Philip Braham]]|[[Ernesto Tagliaferri]]}} | cinematography = [[Curt Courant]] <br> [[Arpad Viragh]] | editing = [[Lars Moen]] | studio = [[Cine-Allianz Tonfilm]] <br> [[Tobis Film]] | distributor = Sterling Films | released = {{Film date|1931|01|09|df=yes}} | runtime = 96 minutes | country = Germany <br> United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''City of Song''''', also known as '''''Farewell to Love''''', is a 1931 British/German [[romance film]] directed by [[Carmine Gallone]] and starring [[Jan Kiepura]], [[Betty Stockfeld]] and [[Hugh Wakefield]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114012843/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/29547 BFI.org]</ref> It was shot at [[Wembley Studios]].<ref>Wood p.69</ref> The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Oscar Friedrich Werndorff]] and [[J. Elder Wills]]. A German-language version was released in 1930 under the title ''[[The Singing City]]''.

==Plot== A tourist guide in [[Naples]] is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her [[protégé]].

==Cast== * [[Jan Kiepura]] as Giovanni Cavallone * [[Betty Stockfeld]] as Claire Winter * [[Hugh Wakefield]] as Hon. Roddy Fielding * [[Heather Angel (actress)|Heather Angel]] as Carmela * Franz Maldacea as Chi, a boy of the streets * Philip Easton as John, an artist * [[Miles Malleson]] as Theater Watchman

==References== <references/>

==Bibliography== * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in the 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0020769}}

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