Word: doretta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 to an army guardhouse...
...woman to command. Her voice is thin, but it is clear and sweet. And, as always, her high-comedy acting is a sheer delight, Yul Brynner, a veteran of "Lute Song," plays the King, and he brings to the part an excellent voice and some fine, convincing acting. Doretta Morrow and Dorothy Sarnoff are both impressive performers and singers, and they are both probably quite beautiful, underneath their Oriental make-up. The rest of the adult east is also sprightly and entertaining...