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      Mario Lanza

      Mario Lanza

      Highest Rated: 57% The Student Prince (1954)

      Lowest Rated: 57% The Student Prince (1954)

      Birthday: Jan 31, 1921

      Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

      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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      BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE, Mario Lanza, 1952 THAT MIDNIGHT KISS, Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, 1949 THAT MIDNIGHT KISS, Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, 1949 SERENADE, Mario Lanza, Sara Montiel, 1956 BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE, Doretta Morrow, Mario Lanza, 1952 THAT MIDNIGHT KISS, Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, 1949 SERENADE, Mario Lanza, 1956 SEVEN HILLS OF ROME, (aka ARRIVEDERCI ROMA), Mario Lanza, 1958 BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE, Doretta Morrow, Mario Lanza, 1952 FOR THE FIRST TIME, Mario Lanza, 1959 THE GREAT CARUSO, Ann Blyth, Mario Lanza, 1951 THE GREAT CARUSO, Mario Lanza, 1951 SERENADE, Mario Lanza, 1956. FOR THE FIRST TIME, Mario Lanza, 1959 SERENADE, Mario Lanza, conductor Richard Lert, 1956 THAT MIDNIGHT KISS, Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, 1949 TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS, Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, 1950 THAT MIDNIGHT KISS, Amparo Bellester, Mimi Aguglia, J. Carrol Naish, Marjorie Reynolds, Mario Lanza, Bridget Carr, 1949 THE GREAT CARUSO, Mario Lanza, 1951 THAT MIDNIGHT KISS, Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza, 1949
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      Filmography

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      Credit
      No Score Yet 20% For the First Time Tonio Costa (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet 20% The Seven Hills of Rome Marc Revere (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet 43% Serenade Damon Vincenti (Character) - 1956
      57% 75% The Student Prince Prince Karl (singing voice) (Voice) - 1954
      No Score Yet 29% Because You're Mine Renaldo Rossano (Character) - 1952
      No Score Yet 61% The Great Caruso Enrico Caruso (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 54% The Toast of New Orleans Pepe Abellard Duvalle (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 43% That Midnight Kiss Johnny Donnetti (Character) - 1949