MGM musicals still make me bawl my eyes out even when they're happy & light. The scope of it all just makes me overcome with emotion. Grand, lavish, colorful sets, costumes, dancing, singing. I mean, it's Stanley Donen. Jose Ferrer gets better with everything I see. He had so much energy. Merle Oberon, in addition to being modestly praised for her acting, photographs ridiculously well in technicolor. And Cyd Charisse in one of the musical numbers...lordy. Those gravity defying legs of hers. She was pure magic. Other highlights: Ann Miller, Gene Kelly & brother Fred, and Jane Powell (who turns 87 today!).

Come for the scene in which Gene Kelly dances with his real-life brother Fred Kelly. Stay for Jose Ferrer's hilarious twenty-minute one-man-show rendition of Jazza-Doo.

I'm suspecting these MGM composer films aren't the best, but I don't regret mining them for their performances. The standout actually surprisingly comes from the film's lead, José Ferrer, and his energetic, sped-up run-through of some Al Jolson show which I am one-hundred percent certain is better than the actual show. Ferrer does it here in five-to-minutes to save you from watching it. Outside of that, it yawns from show-to-show only awakening for an Ann Miler tap and a typically fantastic Charisse dance. Sigmund Romberg spends the entire film torn between his "more artistic" work and "vulgar" pop numbers, and I don't know what it says about myself beyond unimpeachable taste that I preferred his vulgar pop numbers, but director Donen has my back and thankfully indulges.

Fred Kelly and Gene Kelly dancing together here is super-sweet especially given that Fred helped teach Gene tap.

so first of all, I genuinely could not remember the name of this movie WHILE I WAS WATCHING IT, so I have little doubt this won't even last a day in my head. But it doesn't deserve to anyway; it's a middling biopic that reads less of even a wikipedia article but just a list of Sigmund Romberg's works. Does practically nothing with his psychology or biography - they even drop his accent after one scene - and is really just an excuse to stage some of his famous numbers (of which, I should say, I knew none). Ferrer is....fine? There's one crazy scene where he acts out an entire musical and jumps out a window (!) but for the rest he just read lines.

A clown car of a movie that underuses its all star cast. Some people here have commented on the lavish sets which are probably the most lavish of all Donen's career. I now know how to design my condo if I get one.

Also, Howard Keel for President.

There may be one, ok possibly two, too many musical numbers but this film is a masterpiece of art. Best performance ever by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV.

Deep In My Heart is one of those standard MGM musicals/biopics that hones in on a Broadway figure who is no longer viewed as important as they once within contemporary pop culture. Modern audiences might not be familiar with Sigmund Romberg, but it does not really matter.

This is really a package film disguised as a biopic in order for MGM to showcase the wealth of talent at its disposal: Ferrer, Kelly, Charisse, Oberon, Pidgeon, Powell, Keel, Miller, Henreid etc. Donen's film is merely an excuse to engage in exercise of recreating certain scenes from works Romberg is associated with. Ferrer is fine, but the real treat here is seeing the likes of Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse at the peak of their popularity.

I'm suspecting these MGM composer films aren't the best, but I don't regret mining them for their performances. The standout actually surprisingly comes from the film's lead, José Ferrer, and his energetic, sped-up run-through of some Al Jolson show which I am one-hundred percent certain is better than the actual show. Ferrer does it here in five-to-minutes to save you from watching it. Outside of that, it yawns from show-to-show only awakening for an Ann Miler tap and a typically fantastic Charisse dance. Sigmund Romberg spends the entire film torn between his "more artistic" work and "vulgar" pop numbers, and I don't know what it says about myself beyond unimpeachable taste that I preferred his vulgar pop numbers, but director Donen has my back and thankfully indulges.

Fred Kelly and Gene Kelly dancing together here is super-sweet especially given that Fred helped teach Gene tap.

MGM did a bunch of these biopics on famous Broadway composers. This one is on Sigmund Romberg, who wrote some hits in the 1920s. These movies were really an excuse to throw in a bit of story but really focus on the performances of the songs, usually done by stunt casting. In this case, Cyd Charisse, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone, Howard Keel, Gene Kelly, Tony Martin, and Ann Miller. Fun and in Technicolor but plays more like a revue. Jose Ferrer dully plays Romberg.

How much will you sell yourself out to see your dream come to fruition.

Enjoyable movie and Jose Ferrer as I’ve never seen him before (he usually does dramatic roles). But he was good.

via Informit

WAIT, this was actually a serve!!!

Not super popular but it's not all that bad

I think if you like are any way interested in sigmund Romberg this movie is prob pretty cool. Not so much for me, I appreciate it, I think it’s still good and better than some crappily thrown together bad Astaire musical, idk I just can’t put it up there with the other genius that we’ve seen from donen, prob a great movie on its own but as far as donen movies go this isn’t in the pantheon for me.

There is literally not enough Gene Kelly for me to even muscle through finishing this movie.