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Young Man with a Horn
Theatrical poster to Young Man with a Horn
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Produced by	Jerry Wald
Written by	Dorothy Baker (novel) Carl Foreman Edmund H. North
Starring	Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall Doris Day Hoagy Carmichael
Cinematography	Ted D. McCord
Editing by	Alan Crosland Jr.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	February 9, 1950 (U.S. release)
Running time	112 min.
Language	English
IMDb

Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 drama film based on a biographical novel of the same name about the life of Bix Beiderbecke. The film is considered to be the first contemporary big-budget jazz film, a genre that became common not soon after the release of the movie, as well as one of the first major Hollywood productions to deal with lesbianism.

It stars Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas, and Doris Day, and was directed by Michael Curtiz. It was produced by Jerry Wald, and Carl Foreman and Edmund H. North wrote the screenplay.

Casting and Cameos

Douglas plays the lead character, Rick Martin, likely based on Beiderbecke. Bacall performs the second lead, Martin's mixed up love interest named Amy North. This was one of the few scripts accepted by Bacall, who was famous for her habit of turning down projects she wasn't interested in. It has become one of her defining roles, even though she stated in her autobiography that she didn't think highly of the part.

Douglas's horn playing is dubbed by Harry James.

Louis Armstrong makes an uncredited appearance. The film also called upon the talents of musicians Everett Glass, Ivor James and Julius Wechter.

Cast

Kirk Douglas: Rick Martin

Lauren Bacall: Amy North

Doris Day: Jo Jordan

Hoagy Carmichael: Willie Willoughby

Juano Hernandez: Art Hazzard

Jerome Cowan: Phil Morrison

Mary Beth Hughes: Marge Martin

Nestor Paiva: Louis Galba

Orley Lindgren: Young Rick

Walter Reed: Jack Chandler

Treatment of lesbianism

The film is regarded as one of the first major Hollywood productions to present a woman with strongly implied lesbian tendencies.^[1]^[2] This is suggested by Bacall's occasionally frigid character's unaccounted overnight absence from her husband at the same time she is talking of moving to Europe with a female artist. The artist, Miss Carson, is later present, and Amy gushes to her: "I'm dying to see the rest of your sketches."

Because of this controversial subject matter, the film was banned in many countries until it was re-released worldwide in 1962. The US movie industry, while conforming to the Production Code, showed the movie when it was released in 1950.

References

External links

Young Man With a Horn at the Internet Movie Database

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