 The film stars Dirk Bogarde as Franz Liszt, Capucine (in her acting debut) as Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, and Geneviève Page as Marie d'Agoult, with Patricia Morison as George Sand, Alexander Davion as Frédéric Chopin, Lyndon Brook as Richard Wagner, Albert Rueprecht as Prince Felix Lichnowsky, Erland Erlandsen as Sigismond Thalberg, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, and Marcel Dalio.Columbia Pictures had plans to film "The Franz Liszt Story" back in 1952.Studio head Harry Cohn hired his friend, acclaimed screenwriter Oscar Saul ("A Streetcar Named Desire"), to produce his own original screenplay with William Dieterle set to direct.