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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outsize (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) Tenor Mario Lanza now owns an outsize, custom-built white Cadillac with a gold-plated dashboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Rich, Full Life | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Hollywood landlady sued Tenor Mario Lanza for a total of $19,801 in back rent and damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 9, 1953 | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Born. To Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza., 31, Hollywood tenor, and Betty Lanza, 30: their third child, first son; in Los Angeles. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...paid out some $58,000 to I.L.A. officials, with a regular $100 Christmas envelope for Joe Ryan, the boss of I.L.A. Jules Sottnek & Son, stevedores, paid I.L.A. bosses $14,402 in five years. A Sottnek vice president staked Mike Clemente, an I.L.A. straw boss and graduate of the Socks Lanza mob, to an $11,000 wedding for his daughter. President James C. Kennedy of the stevedoring firm of Daniels & Kennedy, Inc. personally dropped off a sealed envelope, containing $1,500 in cash, every year at Joe Ryan's office. All burly Joe said was "hello," and "thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Payoff Port | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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