A fiction pretending to be the life of composer Jerome Kern (1885-1945). He befriends an arranger (a fictional character) and his little daughter Sally (ditto), travels to England, meets an American Broadway producer, meets Eva, a young woman with whom he falls in love with, comes back to America to do a musical for said producer, the show does not happen, he barely fails to embark to England again on the ill-fated Lusitania (yes, he really missed that boat), later returns to England on another ship, gets married with the one he fell in love with, becomes famous, searches for Sally who has left home to become a singer, Sally's father dies, Sally is found (she sings in a Memphis nightclub), Jerry goes to Hollywood.
This has reportedly little to do with Kern's real life. There are many well done musical numbers (which happen as musical numbers in the diegesis), the best of which is probably the circus one. A lifeless biography. The copy I watched was probably not complete.
Rating: 41
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