Word: poliopera
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...grade rash of films like this one. If ignored, they will go away. Based on the autobiography of Marjorie Lawrence, the Metropolitan Opera star who was stricken with the disease in 1941 but came back in 1943 to sing Venus from a sitting position, Interrupted Melody is a poliopera in color. For three-fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from Carmen, La Bohème, II Trovatore and Samson et Dalila. In the final fourth, with the loyal support...
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