The Great Caruso
1951 film by Richard Thorpe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza as famous operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer. The screenplay, by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig, was suggested by the biography Enrico Caruso His Life and Death by Dorothy Caruso, the tenor's widow. The original music was composed and arranged by Johnny Green and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Costume design was by Helen Rose and Gile Steele.
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Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
Written by | William Ludwig |
Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
Starring | Mario Lanza |
Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
Edited by | Gene Ruggiero |
Music by | Johnny Green |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 109 mins |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,853,000[1] |
Box office | $9,269,000[1] |
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The film is a highly fictionalized biography of the life of Caruso.