Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

Name: Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
Director: John Musilli
Released: 1983
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Peter Herman Adler, James Bacon, Plácido Domingo, Rosalind Elias, Zsa Zsa Gabor

1983 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 25 VOTES · DIR. John Musilli

Overview

Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vintage recordings chronicle Lanza's life from his Philadelphia childhood to his meteoric rise as an opera singer and film actor and his tragic death. Credited with bringing opera and classical music into the home of everyday Americans, Lanza starred in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans and portrayed Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso.

Dialogue Timeline — 775 lines

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00:00:00 I am Plácido Domingo. There are two generations of music lovers

00:05:25 have to pin him down

00:07:29 and they raved that, the bigness was

00:09:32 I can remember I was a kid I saw him driving a truck in that movies.

00:12:07 Mario to the studio the following morning, and wanted me to be there too

00:14:48 I was in common in the soldiers chorus

00:17:17 The cast are Katheryn Grayson, David Niven

00:22:17 Then it started to change and I wondered if I'd come out the other side with that

00:24:41 Mario loved his parents so much.

00:26:43 He had people around him that's go to a tiger.

00:29:07 And amazingly, he talked about it right in front of his wife.

00:31:17 he wanted to be Enrico. That's how he portrayed him, so why not put on a hat

00:33:24 so therefore they say they came back he was enormous it said

00:36:38 I was with Mario

00:39:17 sick with the fear that his voice would fail

00:42:04 Bárbara Singer. Bárbara is Seville.

00:46:49 Mario was offered another picture and

00:49:08 didn't like his looks at all francally

00:51:43 visionary, you have then a partner

00:53:57 When he was disturbed, he ate like a glock. Yet he feared

00:56:11 in this room. Well, he didn't realize how loud that radio was when

00:58:17 treatment. I've been asked

01:00:39 to the ????? and some she had none

01:09:04 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Cast & Characters

Peter Herman Adler Self James Bacon Self Plácido Domingo Narrator Rosalind Elias Self Zsa Zsa Gabor Self Kathryn Grayson Self Dorothy Kirsten Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed775

Dialogue density8.6 lines / min

First line00:00:00

Final line01:09:04

Production Record

DirectorJohn Musilli

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes25