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FULL MARIO LANZA in THAT MIDNIGHT KISS Movie USA 1949
Popular Singers in this Opera Recording
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: THAT MIDNIGHT KISS
- Composer: Charles Previn, Conrad Salinger
- Libretto: Bruce Manning Tamara Hovey
- Venue & Opera Company: Studio and on location, USA
- Recorded: 1949
- Type: Movie
- Singers:
- Conductor: Charles Previn
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Norman Taurog
- Stage Designer: Edwin B. Willis
- Costume Designer: Helen Rose
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Date Published: 1949
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
That Midnight Kiss is a 1949 Technicolor American musical romance film also starring Mario Lanza (in his first leading role) and Kathryn Grayson. Among the supporting cast were Ethel Barrymore, conductor/pianist Jose Iturbi (playing himself), Keenan Wynn, J. Carrol Naish, and Jules Munshin. The commercially popular film was directed by Norman Taurog, who the following year would again direct Lanza and Grayson in the even more successful The Toast of New Orleans.
Plot
Abigail Trent Budell (Ethel Barrymore), a wealthy resident of Philadelphia and patron of the arts, supports her soprano granddaughter Prudence Budell (Kathryn Grayson), just returning from Europe after five years of vocal training. Prudence’s grandmother sponsors an opera company run by the famous maestro Jose Iturbi (himself) to give her chance to lead an opera. They hire the also famous tenor Guido Russino Betelli (Thomas Gomez), but Prudence does not feel comfortable with him on the stage.
Prudence happens to see an American-Italian truck driver, Johnny Donnetti (Mario Lanza), singing opera. She soon becomes instrumental in bringing Johnny to public attention by insisting that he replace the opera troupe’s defecting star tenor.
From here, Johnny becomes attracted to Prudence. Things get complicated when she encounters Mary (Marjorie Reynolds), one of Johnny’s colleagues, whom she assumes is in love with him.
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