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1950 film by Michael Curtiz

Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 American musicaldrama film starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez.^[2][3] Directed by Michael Curtiz, it was based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Dorothy Baker inspired by the life of jazzcornetistBix Beiderbecke.

The film was produced by Jerry Wald, and its screenplay written by Carl Foreman and Edmund H. North.

Plot

Rick Martin is a young Midwestern orphan cared for by an indifferent elder sister, living in his own isolated world.

He is first drawn to an inner-city mission for alcoholics and its piano-accompanied hymns.

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Seeking a more portable instrument, his eye catches a trumpet in the window of a pawn shop. He works as a pin setter in a bowling alley to save up enough money to buy it. Tutored by Black jazzman Art Hazzard (Juano Hernandez) Rick grows into an outstanding, intuitive jazz musician (played by