The Great Caruso, the Glossary
The Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza as famous operatic tenor Enrico Caruso.[1]
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78 relations: Academy Award for Best Sound, Academy Awards, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals, Aida, Alan Napier, American Film Institute, Angela Clarke (American actress), Ann Blyth, Antonio Scotti, Argentina Brunetti, Biographical film, Blanche Thebom, Bologna, Bosley Crowther, Box office, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carl Benton Reid, Compact disc, Dorothy Caruso, Dorothy Kirsten, Douglas Shearer, Eduard Franz, Elliott Lewis (actor), Emilio De Marchi (tenor), Enrico Caruso, Firmament, Gene Ruggiero, Giacomo Puccini, Gile Steele, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Giuseppe Valdengo, Giuseppe Verdi, Heinrich Conried, Helen Rose, Ian Wolfe, Jarmila Novotná, Jean de Reszke, Jesse L. Lasky, Joe Pasternak, Johnny Green, José Carreras, Joseph Ruttenberg, L'elisir d'amore, La Juive, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Luciano Pavarotti, Lucine Amara, Ludwig Donath, Marina Koshetz, Mario Lanza, ... Expand index (28 more) »
- Cultural depictions of Enrico Caruso
- Films scored by Johnny Green
- Films with screenplays by William Ludwig
Academy Award for Best Sound
The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals
Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema.
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Aida
Aida (or Aïda) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.
Alan Napier
Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor.
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American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
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Angela Clarke (American actress)
Angela Clarke (August 14, 1909 – December 16, 2010) was an American stage, television and film actress.
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Ann Blyth
Ann Marie Blyth (born August 16, 1928) is an American retired actress and singer.
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Antonio Scotti
Antonio Scotti (25 January 1866 – 26 February 1936) was an Italian baritone.
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Argentina Brunetti
Argentina Brunetti (born Argentina Josefina Ángela Ferraù; August 31, 1907 – December 20, 2005) was an Argentine stage and film actress and writer.
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Biographical film
A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.
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Blanche Thebom
Blanche Thebom (September 19, 1915March 23, 2010) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director.
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Bologna
Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.
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Bosley Crowther
Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.
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Box office
A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.
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Carl Benton Reid
Carl Benton Reid (August 14, 1893– March 16, 1973) was an American actor.
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Compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.
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Dorothy Caruso
Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso (August 6, 1893 – December 16, 1955) was an American socialite and the wife of the Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso.
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Dorothy Kirsten
Dorothy Kirsten (July 6, 1910, Montclair, New Jersey – November 18, 1992, Los Angeles, California) was an American operatic soprano.
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Douglas Shearer
Douglas Graham Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.
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Eduard Franz
Eduard Franz Schmidt (October 31, 1902 – February 10, 1983) was an American actor of theatre, film and television.
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Elliott Lewis (actor)
Elliott Lewis (November 28, 1917 – May 23, 1990) was an American actor, writer, producer, and director who worked in radio and television during the 20th century.
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Emilio De Marchi (tenor)
Emilio De Marchi (6 January 1861 – 20 March 1917) was an Italian operatic tenor.
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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor.
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Firmament
In ancient near eastern cosmology, the firmament signified a cosmic barrier that separated the heavenly waters above from the Earth below.
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Gene Ruggiero
Gene S. Ruggiero (June 20, 1910 – February 19, 2002) was an American film editor.
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.
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Gile Steele
Gile Steele (24 September 1908, in Ohio – 16 January 1952, in Culver City, California) was a Hollywood costume designer.
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Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Giulio Gatti-Casazza (3 February 1869 – 2 September 1940) was an Italian opera manager.
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Giuseppe Valdengo
Giuseppe Valdengo (May 24, 1914, Turin – October 3, 2007, Aosta) was an Italian operatic baritone.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.
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Heinrich Conried
Heinrich Conried (September 3, 1855 – April 27, 1909) was an Austrian and naturalized American theatrical manager and director.
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Helen Rose
Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 – November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Ian Wolfe
Ian Marcus Wolfe (November 4, 1896 – January 23, 1992) was an American character actor with around 400 film and television credits.
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Jarmila Novotná
Jarmila Novotná (September 23, 1907 in Prague – February 9, 1994 in New York City) was a Czech lyric coloratura soprano and actress.
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Jean de Reszke
Jean de Reszke (Jan Reszke) (14 January 18503 April 1925) was a Polish dramatic tenor and opera star.
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Jesse L. Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
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Joe Pasternak
Joseph Herman Pasternak (born József Paszternák; September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood.
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Johnny Green
John Waldo Green (October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist.
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José Carreras
Josep Maria Carreras Coll (born 5 December 1946), better known as José Carreras, is a Catalan operatic tenor from Spain who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini.
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Joseph Ruttenberg
Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 – May 1, 1983) was a Ukrainian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.
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L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a melodramma giocoso (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.
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La Juive
La Juive (The Jewess) is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe; it was first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on 23 February 1835.
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Loews Cineplex Entertainment
Loews Cineplex Entertainment, also known as Loews Incorporated, was an American theater chain operating in North America.
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 19356 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time.
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Lucine Amara
Lucine Amara (born March 1, 1925) is an American soprano who was chiefly based at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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Ludwig Donath
Ludwig Donath (6 March 1900 – 29 September 1967), was an Austrian actor who appeared in many American films.
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Marina Koshetz
Marina Koshetz (August 6, 1912, Moscow – December 9, 2000, Santa Monica, California) was an American opera singer (soprano) and actress.
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Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza; January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959) was an American tenor and actor.
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Mario Siletti
Mario Giovanni Siletti (22 July 1903 – 19 April 1964) was an Italian actor. He was born in Turin. He performed in more than 160 films from 1932 to 1964. He began appearing in American films no later than 1946. From 1962 to 1964, he also portrayed a recurring character, Charlie Carlotti, on the American television series, Hazel.
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Martha (opera)
Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond (Martha, or The Market at Richmond) is a romantic comic opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow set to a German libretto by and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Montage (filmmaking)
Montage is a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.
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Nestor Paiva
Nestor Paiva (June 30, 1905 – September 9, 1966) was an American stage, radio, film and television actor of Portuguese descent.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
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Nicola Moscona
Nicola Moscona (September 23, 1907 – September 17, 1975) was a Greek-born operatic bass.
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Park Benjamin Jr.
Park Benjamin (1849–1922) was an American patent lawyer and writer.
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Pál Jávor (actor)
Pál Jávor (31 January 1902 – 14 August 1959) was a Hungarian actor, and the country's first male movie star.
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Peter Brocco
Carl Peter Brocco (January 16, 1903 – December 20, 1992) was an American screen and stage actor.
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Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
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RCA Red Seal Records
RCA Red Seal is a classical music label whose origin dates to 1902 and is currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment.
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RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
The RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, sometimes also known as the Victor Symphony Orchestra, the RCA Victor Salon Orchestra, the RCA Victor Orchestra or the RCA Orchestra, was an American studio orchestra founded in 1940 by the RCA Victor record label for the purposes of making recordings.
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Richard Hageman
Richard Hageman (9 July 1881 – 6 March 1966) was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer.
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Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe (born Rollo Smolt Thorpe; February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director best known for his long career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Rigoletto
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.
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Shepard Menken
Shepard Menken (November 2, 1921 – January 2, 1999) was an American film, television, voice, radio character actor.
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Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien (born Sara Opesken; 25 December 1888 – 19 March 1960) was a Russian-born American screenwriter.
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Teresa Celli
Teresa Mara Levis (June 6, 1923 – October 30, 1999), better known as Teresa Celli, was an American lyric soprano who apprenticed at La Scala before achieving recognition in films such as The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Black Hand (1950).
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Tosca
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
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Townsville Bulletin
The Townsville Bulletin is a daily newspaper published in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, formerly known as the Townsville Daily Bulletin.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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William Ludwig (screenwriter)
William Ludwig (May 16, 1912 – February 7, 1999) was an American screenwriter.
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Yvette Dugay
Yvette Dugay (born Audrey Lee Pearlman; June 24, 1932 – October 14, 1986) was an American actress.
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24th Academy Awards
The 24th Academy Awards were held on March 20, 1952, honoring the films of 1951.
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See also
Cultural depictions of Enrico Caruso
- Caruso (song)
- Caruso sauce
- The Great Caruso
- The Young Caruso
Films scored by Johnny Green
- An American in Paris (film)
- Broadway Rhythm
- Bye Bye Birdie (1963 film)
- Easter Parade (film)
- Fiesta (1947 film)
- High Society (1956 film)
- Meet Me in Las Vegas
- Oliver! (film)
- Pepe (1960 film)
- Raintree County (film)
- The Great Caruso
- The Inspector General (1949 film)
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)
- Twilight of Honor
- Week-End at the Waldorf
- West Side Story (1961 film)
Films with screenplays by William Ludwig
- An American Romance
- Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
- Athena (1954 film)
- Back Street (1961 film)
- Blackmail (1939 film)
- Boys' Ranch (film)
- Challenge to Lassie
- Gun Glory
- Hills of Home (film)
- Hit the Deck (1955 film)
- Interrupted Melody
- It's a Big Country
- Journey for Margaret
- Julia Misbehaves
- Love Crazy (1941 film)
- Love Finds Andy Hardy
- Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
- Oklahoma! (1955 film)
- Out West with the Hardys
- Shadow on the Wall (1950 film)
- Stronger Than Desire
- Ten Thousand Bedrooms
- The Great Caruso
- The Hardys Ride High
- The Merry Widow (1952 film)
- The Student Prince (film)
- The Sun Comes Up
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Caruso
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