Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Ann Blyth, 24, cinemactress (Mildred Pierce, The Great Caruso); and Dr. James McNulty, 35, Los Angeles obstetrician and brother of Singer Dennis Day; in North Hollywood, Calif...
After a year of waiting for temperamental Cinemactor Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza to get in the mood to start work on The Student Prince, M-G-M lost its corporate patience, told lawyers to go ahead with its suit against the chubby Mario for $700,000 in production costs to date plus $4,500,000. the loss in anticipated profits. His probable replacement in the star role: Crooner Vic Damone, who will soon be released from the Army...
Born. To Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza., 31, Hollywood tenor, and Betty Lanza, 30: their third child, first son; in Los Angeles. Weight...
...were good reasons. Even among Italian operas, the plot is a wildly improbable one, and the whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house a complete Verdi cycle" -settled on Forza for his 1952 opener...
Because You're Mine (MGM) is an undernourished cinemusical starring a slimmed-down (156 Ib.) Mario Lanza (who tipped 220 Ibs. in last year's The Great Caruso). Lanza plays a drafted opera star who gets involved with a hardboiled, musically inclined sergeant (James Whitmore) and his pretty, singing sister (Doretta Morrow). In the course of the plot, Lanza, singing in a voice distinguished for its sheer volume, delivers 14 numbers, ranging from Il Trovatore and Cavalleria Rusticana arias to All the Things You Are, in a variety of settings, from an opera stage and a nightclub...