Deep in My Heart

Sometime around 1910, New York, opera star Helen Trabuel as the employer of Jose Ferrer, who plays immigrant composer Sigmund Romberg, subject of the bio-pic, who then tangles with a roughneck American promoter (David Burns) early in MGM’s Deep In My Heart, 1954.

Jose Ferrer in French, as composer Sigmund Romberg, meeting Tamara Toumanova as Gaby, Walter Pidgeon as Broadway impresario J.J. Shubert, and Merle Oberon as future collaborator Dorothy Donnelly, praising the first sample of a famous tune, in MGM’s Deep In My Heart, 1954.

An unusual opening from MGM, as the studio orchestra begins a de facto tribute to the composer and subject of the bio-pic, until it’s revealed that it’s an actor, leading man Jose Ferrer, who plays Sigmund Romberg, conducting, in Deep In My Heart, 1954, Stanley Donen directing.

Two Sigmund Romberg tunes, Jose Ferrer in his only musical performance plays the composer standing-in for the understudy, with Rosemary Clooney, then narrates to Gene Kelly, joined by older-brother Fred in his only movie appearance (his vocal dubbed), in the MGM musical bio-pic Deep In My Heart, 1954.

Jose Ferrer stars in Deep in My Heart (1954), MGM's all-star biography of Broadway songsmith Sigmund Romberg.