Overview
The life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok. A lover of the arts, young immigrant Hurok despairs when he realizes he has no musical or artistic talents. Thus it is that, despite great personal and financial sacrifice, Hurok devotes his life to discovering and nurturing other performers and bringing them to Broadway.
Cast
- Ezio Pinza as Feodor Chaliapin
- David Wayne as Sol Hurok
- Roberta Peters as Elsa Valdine
- Tamara Toumanova as Anna Pavlova
- Isaac Stern as Eugene Ysaye
- Byron Palmer as Gregory Lawrence
- Jan Peerce as Gregory Lawrence
- Oskar Karlweis as Benjamin Golder
- Bess Flowers as Opera spectator in St. Petersburg
- Anne Bancroft as Emma Hurok