Mario Lanza

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Mario Lanza: The American Caruso
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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.
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Serenade
5.5

Serenade

Mar 23, 1956
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Drama
Le Chant de la Louisiane
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chanteur d'opéra Snooty rencontre une rude et basculants pêcheur dans les bayous de la Louisiane, mais ce pêcheur peut chanter! Son agent lui attire loin à la Nouvelle Orléans pour lui apprendre à chanter de l'opéra, mais vient à regretter cette décision téméraire quand les chanteurs tombent amoureux.
Drama
Seven Hills of Rome
5.9

Seven Hills of Rome

Nov 21, 1957
After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.
Drama
Le Baiser de minuit
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Le Baiser de minuit

Sep 22, 1949
La richissime Abigail Budell aurait voulu faire carrière dans l'opéra. Elle reporte ses espoirs sur sa fille Prudence, qui rencontre un camionneur à la voix exceptionnelle.
Music
The Great Caruso
5.7

The Great Caruso

Apr 16, 1951
Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
Drama
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
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A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
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Winged Victory
5.5

Winged Victory

Dec 22, 1944
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
Drama
Il était une fois à Hollywood
7.3
Cette nostalgique leçon d'histoire recèle les trésors cachés des plus grandes comédies musicales de la MGM ainsi que de nombreux autres extraits merveilleux mais moins célèbres, avec Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Eleanor Powell et même Clark Gable chantant et dansant. « Il était une fois Hollywood » est une véritable gourmandise pour cinéphiles et amateurs de comédies musicales.
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The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century
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Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have always treasured on record, watching footage of performances from another era. All of singers featured here have something in common (with one exception, Sutherland): they sang and performed on stage before the advent of filmed opera. . And it shows, for the first time, a few tantalizing minutes of recently recovered footage from Callas' legendary Lisbon Traviata, featuring Addio dal Passato and Parigi oh cara with Alfredo Kraus. This DVD will leave you asking for more.
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Legends
5

Legends

Jan 21, 2011
The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
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