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Ballad in Blue Reviews

  • 1965
  • 1 hr 29 mins
  • Drama, Music
  • NR
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Hearts-and-flowers tale involving sightless jazz pianist Ray Charles aiding a widow (Mary Peach) with a blind child. Steve: Tom Bell. Gina: Dawn Addams. David: Piers Bishop. Mrs. Babbidge: Betty McDowall. Margaret: Lucy Appleby. Songs include "Let the Good Times Roll," "Lucky Old Sam," "I Got a Woman," "Unchain My Heart." Also known as "Blues for Lovers."

Ray Charles plays himself, helping a recently blinded English boy adjust in this sentimental tale. Worthwhile for extensive footage of Charles in performance. And, yes, the director-cowriter is Paul Henreid, the actor (Victor Lazlo in CASABLANCA, 1942, among many other fine films). Henreid directed a number of films and TV shows in his later years.