The Great Mr Handel

The Life - Tragedy and Triumphs and the Glorious Music of the Illustrious Brought to the Screen

Duration: 89 min

Release date: 1942-11-09

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This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

Music Drama

The Great Mr Handel

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as George Frideric Handel

Elizabeth Allan

Elizabeth Allan

as Lord Chesterfield

Michael Shepley

Michael Shepley

as Sir Charles Marsham

as Frederick, Prince of Wales

as John Heidegger

as Charles Jennens

Frederick Cooper

Frederick Cooper

as Captain Coram

Alfred Sangster

Alfred Sangster

as Leader of performance wreckers

as The Kytch Boys

as The Kytch Boys

as Man Buying Oranges

Maureen Chamberlain

Maureen Chamberlain

Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

as Mrs. Cibber (singing voice)

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Claude Friese-Greene

Claude Friese-Greene

Sound Recordist

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