Production and staging, the Robert Wright-George Forrest music and lyrics based on Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's music, and wide screen photography make Song of Norway a magnificent motion picture ...

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In 1942, the team of Robert Wright and George Forrest were completing a seven-year contract as staff composer-lyricists at MGM. At the studio, the team had had occasion to fashion new lyrics to ...

Based on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics.

Despite the success of Blossom Time (Franz Schubert) and The Great Waltz (Johann Strauss) the rather obvious idea of building an operetta around the life of Norwegian Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg ...