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Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza's life was the stuff of show business legend. The son of Italian immigrants who imbued him with a love for opera, he rose to greatness as both a singer and a movie star before a sudden, tragic death. Lanza's rich, mellifluous voice and darkly handsome looks sent him from the opera stage to motion picture sound stages in less than a decade. Viewed by MGM as a "singing Clark Gable," he exercised his vocal abilities and considerable charm in a handful of films, including "The Great Caruso" (1951), a biopic of his boyhood idol, opera singer Enrico Caruso. But health issues took a serious toll, and by the late 1950s, he was no longer in demand as an actor and unable to fulfill his concert commitments. His death in 1959 was an all-too-early end to a bright career.
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Mario Lanza
Filmography
Movies
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For the First Time | Tonio Costa (Character) | - | 1959 |
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The Seven Hills of Rome | Marc Revere (Character) | - | 1958 |
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Serenade | Damon Vincenti (Character) | - | 1956 |
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The Student Prince | Prince Karl (singing voice) (Voice) | - | 1954 |
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Because You're Mine | Renaldo Rossano (Character) | - | 1952 |
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The Great Caruso | Enrico Caruso (Character) | - | 1951 |
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The Toast of New Orleans | Pepe Abellard Duvalle (Character) | - | 1950 |
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That Midnight Kiss | Johnny Donnetti (Character) | - | 1949 |