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...Song from Désirée (Anna Maria Alberghetti; Mercury). Italy's young coloratura is quaveringly miscast as a pop singer in this pseudo-Empire waltz, sounds at home only when vocalizing in the higher reaches...
Paramount gave her a screen test, coldly classified her appearance as "unprepossessing but took a high shine to her etching voice. After a breaking-in period she was funneled into a script called The Mars Are Singing that had aging Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, youthful Soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti (TIME, May 8, 1950) and a performing dog to recommend it, but little else. To Rosemary the director parceled out a couple of routine songs, Haven't Got a Worry and Lovely Weather for Ducks, and a reprise of Come On-a My House; it began to look...
Maria Powers sings the role of the tough, domineering Madame Flora, who is ironically destroyed by the wishes of a dumb child and the fear that presses down upon her. Young Anna Maria Alberghetti's fresh, lyrical voice roams the scales with the ease of a disembodied spirit. Miss Alberghetti, as Monica, shows a remarkable talent for a girl only fifteen years old. The one non-singing lead, mute Tobey, is gracefully and sensually interpreted by Leo Coleman...
...bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest of the picture...
...just like the story books. Before a concert in Carnegie Hall one night last week, almost nobody in Manhattan had ever heard of 13-year-old Soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti. When it was over, the audience stood up and cheered, famous singers stepped forward to congratulate her, and surprised music critics for the Manhattan press dashed off to write enthusiastic pieces for the morning papers...