Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

John Musilli
1983-01-01


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90 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Plácido Domingo Narrator Unowned
Zsa Zsa Gabor Self Unowned
Kathryn Grayson Self Unowned
Dorothy Kirsten Self Unowned
Gisele MacKenzie Self Unowned
Joe Pasternak Self Unowned
Terry Robinson Self Unowned
Mario Lanza Self (archive footage) Unowned