Interrupted Melody (1955)

Directed by

Curtis Bernhardt

Genre

drama film, biographical film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Australian soprano rises to fame as an opera singer. She battles polio with support from her husband.

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What happens

Interrupted Melody is a 1955 American musical biopic film about the opera singer Marjorie Lawrence starring Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford, Roger Moore, and Cecil Kellaway. Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, it was filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color, and produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Jack Cummings. With an Oscar-winning screenplay by Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig, the operatic sequences were staged by Vladimir Rosing, and Eileen Farrell provided the singing voice for Parker. It tells the story of Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence's rise to fame as an opera singer and her subsequent triumph over polio with her husband's help. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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