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...sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just under 5 ft. 10 in. without his elevator shoes, he weighed a tubby 240 Ibs. M-G-M demanded 40 Ibs. off by mid-August, and he was sure he could meet the deadline...
Tears of Gratitude. Mario likes the grand gesture, whether he is in a temper tantrum or a mood of warmhearted generosity. When he learned that Louis B. Mayer, cofounder and chief of the M-G-M lot, seemed to be on his way out, Lanza remembered that Mayer had fought an almost lone battle to get The Great Caruso made. He telephoned Mayer to express concern and ask whether he could help the man long ranked as Hollywood's No. 1 executive. Mayer-as Lanza recalls the incident-wept tears of gratitude...
Gold in the Hills. Meanwhile, Lanza was making test records for RCA Victor to gauge when his voice would be right for commercial recordings. The records found their way to Ida Koverman, Louis B. Mayer's executive secretary, a power at M-G-M and a board member of the Hollywood Bowl. She played the discs for an impressed Mayer, then persuaded the Bowl to book Lanza. In the late summer of 1947, Lanza interrupted a concert tour to appear at the Bowl; it was his 200th concert. In one of his own favorite phrases, he fractured...
Next day, he auditioned for a sound stage full of M-G-M producers and directors. To them, he sounded like pure gold; they gave him a $10,000 bonus to sign a seven-year contract that ties him to the studio only six months each year. That left him free, before making his first picture, to do 90 more concerts from Nova Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen...
Body and Soul (Buddy de Franco; (M-G-M). A bright new band that specializes in startling orchestrations expertly counterpointed by its leader's high-riding clarinet...