If you are looking for a big budget, glossy, beautifully filmed (George Sidney directed), manipulative tearjerker, this is perfect. The good: this is hollywood doing what it does best - lots of pretty people, pretty set pieces, pretty scenery. The music is great. It's all fluffy stuff and good date material. The bad: Tyrone Power was way too old to be playing the part. No one will believe that Tyrone, with crow's feet, is Eddie Duchin in his early twenties. Kim Novak is vacuous and her death scene is absurd. She looks better dying than what most people look like after a vacation at a summer cottage. The conflict between Eddie and his son is contrived. The first half of the film is a musical and the second half is grade "C" soap opera. Good enough to see. Not good enough to be a great pic.