The Great Mr Handel

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The Great Mr Handel

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

1942

1h 29m

6.6(4 votes)

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Drama

Overview

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.

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34 members

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Wilfrid Lawson

George Frideric Handel

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Elizabeth Allan

Mrs. Cibber

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Malcolm Keen

Lord Chesterfield

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Michael Shepley

Sir Charles Marsham

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Max Kirby

Frederick, Prince of Wales

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Hay Petrie

Phineas

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Morris Harvey

John Heidegger

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A.E. Matthews

Charles Jennens

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Frederick Cooper

Pooley

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Andrew Leigh

Captain Coram

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Robert Atkins

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H.F. Maltby

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Ivan Samson

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Charles Groves

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Alfred Sangster

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D.J. Williams

Leader of performance wreckers

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Michael Hunt

The Kytch Boys

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Alan Wren

The Kytch Boys

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Amy Dalby

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Trefor Jones

Singer

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Alfred Harris

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Dorothy Vernon

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Charles Doe

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Frank Atkinson

Permobble

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Leonard Sharp

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Judith Nelmes

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Jean Stanley

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Writing

Victor MacLure

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Hyma Beckley

Man Buying Oranges

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Maureen Chamberlain

Child

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Toni Gable

Lady

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Kenneth Griffith

Unknown Role

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Martita Hunt

Chorister

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Gladys Ripley

Mrs. Cibber (singing voice)

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