Song of the Flame is an operetta with music by Herbert Stothart and George Gershwin, and a musical book and lyrics co-written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach. Organized into a prologue, two acts, and an epilogue, the operetta is set in Moscow, Russia and Paris, France in the Spring of 1917. Song of the Flame premiered on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre on December 30, 1925. It ran for a total of 219 performances; closing on July 10, 1926 after 219 performances. Directed by Frank Reicher and choreographed by Jack Haskell, the production used sets created by the Australian designer Joseph Urban and costumes designed by Mark Mooring.
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Song of the Flame was adapted into a 1930 film.
Song of the Flame1930 · film · 96 min · dir. Alan Crosland · IMDb ↗IMDb5.1This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)
