Peachtreegal--I agree that is a very moving scene and Ty does a great job of Bart's desolation.

When I watch the movies of this era, I see where many of these actors/actresses were originally legit threatre and I think their ways of emoting and articulating go back to their experience on stage where everything much reach to the back row of the theatre and beyond. Many of the film performances of this time transcend the screen similar to transcending the stage. (Sometimes it also lent to overacting--maybe a little too much for film.)

Today's films are mostly motion and dialogue. Not so much the art of the 30s and 40s.

Would it be safe to assume that Funny Girl was almost a "remake" of Rose of Washington Square?

Lastly, I studied piano and Ty does a very convincing job--I know he practiced very hard for Eddie Duchin albeit on a silent keyboard.

Still a class act as we speak almost 50 years after his death!