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The Great Caruso is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Thorpe released in USA on 16 april 1951 with Ann Blyth
The Great Caruso (1951)
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Add to a movie listThe Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza as Enrico Caruso. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig. The original music was by Johnny Green and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Costume design was by Helen Rose and Gile Steele.
The film is a highly fictionalized biography of the life of Caruso.
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L'histoire du ténor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), depuis son enfance jusqu'à sa mort, en passant par les étapes de son ascension.Actors
Ann Blyth
(Dorothy Benjamin)
Dorothy Kirsten
(Louise Heggar)
Richard Hageman
(Carlo Santi)
Jarmila Novotná
(Maria Selka)
Alan Napier
(Jean de Reszke)
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