Unseen for some years, this touching weepie features the ultra-English George Arliss, perhaps Hollywood's unlikeliest superstar, in one of his favourite roles. Adapted from a play called The Silent Voice (also the British title of the film), it features Arliss as a master pianist who learns he is going deaf. But the find of the film was a young Bette Davis whom Arliss had fought to have in the role of the student who makes the pianist's continuing life worthwhile. She contributes a shining sincerity that proved the first step on a long road to stardom with the Warner studio. The film was, many years later, improbably remade as a vehicle for television keyboard superstar Liberace, under the new title of Sincerely Yours.

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