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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...
...Business of moviemaking can no longer afford to pamper its temperamental stars. This simple fact of Hollywood economics was made abundantly clear last week to Tenor Mario Lanza, Who rode to movie stardom on the success of the musical, The Great Caruso...