Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Plácido Domingo

Narrator

Age : 83 | Popularity : 7%

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Self

Age : 99 | Popularity : 9%

Kathryn Grayson

Self

Age : 88 | Popularity : 4%

Dorothy Kirsten

Self

Age : 82 | Popularity : 3%

Gisele MacKenzie

Self

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Joe Pasternak

Self

Age : 89 | Popularity : 3%

Terry Robinson

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Mario Lanza

Self (archive footage)

Age : 38 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	John Musilli
Production	Producer	JoAnn Young
Department	Role	Name

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