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She kept herself working for ages, and had more talents than we knew.
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Nov 27, 2016 - 7:14 PM
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Bob DiMucci
(Member)
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Florence Henderson's biggest feature film was the 1970 musical SONG OF NORWAY. The film was the purported life of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Filmed entirely on location in Norway, the film had a large Scandinavian cast, headed by Toralv Maurstad as Grieg. For American audience appeal, Florence Henderson and Edward G. Robinson were also in the cast. For the British audiences, Robert Morley was there, and for the continental European audience, Oscar Homolka. Henderson played Grieg's cousin and wife, Nina.
SONG OF NORWAY was based on the 1944 stage musical of the same name by Milton Lazarus, Robert Wright and George Forrest, and featured Roland Shaw and the London Symphony Orchestra playing the Grieg adaptations in the score. Director Andrew L. Stone filmed the picture in 70mm Super Panavision and 6-track magnetic stereo. And it was presented in Cinerama at some non-U.S. venues.
Although the film looked gorgeous, it had a clunky screenplay by Stone, and was a commercial failure. The film earned rentals of $4.4 million in North America and $3.5 million in other countries, but still recorded an overall loss of $1,075,000.
Several poor-looking foreign DVD versions and two U.S. VHS editions have been issued, all panned-and-scanned at 1.33:1. Some are even in mono sound. Although Disney controls whatever elements exist for this ABC Pictures film, M-G-M holds the video distribution rights.
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