Director Alexander Hall’s 1952 MGM musical comedy Because You’re Mine stars Mario Lanza as an opera singer who becomes an army rookie and romances the sister (Doretta Morrow) of his music-loving sergeant (James Whitmore). That […]
Director Roy Rowland’s 1957 Italian-American film international co-production The Seven Hills of Rome [Arrivederci Roma] stars the troubled Mario Lanza, in his movie comeback, as an American TV singing star called Marc Revere who goes […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s sentimental 1959 musical film For the First Time is Mario Lanza’s ironically titled swansong, filming For the Last Time in a tailor-made role as a temperamental operatic tenor called Tony Costa who falls […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1944 MGM musical Music for Millions stars Margaret O’Brien, June Allyson, José Iturbi and Jimmy Durante. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1946 O’Brien won a special child actor Oscar in […]
The 1950 MGM musical film The Toast of New Orleans stars Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza, who sings the Oscar-nominated ‘Be My Love’ MGM re-pair the Kathryn Grayson-Mario Lanza team to bigger and better effect […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1949 MGM Technicolor musical That Midnight Kiss is the credited screen début of Mario Lanza as the singing and romancing lead, Johnny Donnetti, being pushed into the big time by Abigail Budell […]
Directors Bernard Knowles and Muriel Box’s 1949 British drama film The Lost People stars with a vintage cast of Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhan McKenna, Maxwell Reed and William Hartnell. But Bridget Boland’s […]
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