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Mario Lanza: The American Caruso (1983)
Directed by 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.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Plácido Domingo | Zsa Zsa Gabor | Kathryn Grayson | Dorothy Kirsten | Gisele MacKenzie | Joe Pasternak | Terry Robinson | Mario Lanza