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In New York, young Paul Boray asks for a violin as a birthday present. His mother Esther buys the eight-dollar instrument even though his father Rudy calls it a passing fancy. Paul grows into a gifted violinist. With the family short of money and his father doubting his prospects, he leaves home and joins a locally broadcast orchestra where Sid Jeffers plays piano. At a party he meets the hostess, Helen Wright, whose husband is Victor. She is rude to him, then sends a gold cigarette case with an apology. Her connections bring him a manager, and he falls in love with her. Esther urges him to think about his future and points out that he missed a date with Gina, a fellow musician and his sweetheart.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Humoresque (1946)
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- Violinist Isaac Stern served as the film's musical advisor and was the actual violinist on its soundtrack, with close-ups of Stern's hands standing in for John Garfield's as he played.
- During a 1973 Tonight Show appearance, Robert Blake said he could not cry for one scene, so John Garfield cleared the set and told him about his own childhood, his mother's death and growing up in the Bronx; Blake then finished the scene.
