- Actors: Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds
- Directors: Curtis Bernhardt
- Writers: Marjorie Lawrence, Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
- Producers: Jack Cummings
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Warner Archives
- DVD Release Date: 23 Mar 2009
- Run Time: 106 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B0029B4ZVI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 45,439 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Eleanor Parker, best known as the baroness in The Sound Of Music, plays Marjorie Lawrence, Australian dramatic soprano who conquered the world's opera houses and then conquered a much graver challenge. Polio.
A good story, covering her first efforts to get noticed down-under, then in Paris and finally America. Her struggle to balance work with marriage and the heart-tugging return to music after the immense strain of her illness.
Good performances and lots of lovely opera excerpts, sung by Eileen Farrell. There are recordings of the real Marjorie but they would have been too primitive (1930s) for use on the soundtrack.
never a dull moment.
A good story, covering her first efforts to get noticed down-under, then in Paris and finally America. Her struggle to balance work with marriage and the heart-tugging return to music after the immense strain of her illness.
Good performances and lots of lovely opera excerpts, sung by Eileen Farrell. There are recordings of the real Marjorie but they would have been too primitive (1930s) for use on the soundtrack.
never a dull moment.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Best opera movie
6 May 2000
I was 14 when this movie opened and I saw it at least five times (but I have never in my life worn a baseball cap backward, so I guess I have not really contradicted the previous reviewer). I repeated because the Liebestod (as sung by Eileen Farrell, though I did not know that until much later) was one of the greatest musical experiences of my life--then and since, though I had been a devout opera fan before that movie and have been a serious Wagnerian ever since. The movie somewhat romanticized Marjorie Lawrence's life, but Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford, who played her husband, built a credible dramatic picture of the calamity of serious physical illness striking a great artist. Lawrence did sing Isolde at the Met as her last performance there--whether she rose to fall across Tristan's body must be for some other historian to tell--I certainly wasn't there. But the movie inspires both admiration and creative enthusiasm in anyone who can respond at all to great music and the great determination it requires to perform it well.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Great Film, Especially for Opera Lovers
30 May 2009
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I think this is a beautiful film, well acted, written and beautifully sung by Eileen Farrell. The opera segments are wonderful and Eleanor Parker has the best role of her career. By all means see it, especially if you are an opera buff. The quality is actually quite good, although a full re-mastering should be done.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Biopic of polio-stricken Wagnerian soprano Marjorie Lawrence
16 July 1999
Eleanor Parker, a dramatic actress of the higher second rung in 50s Hollywood, takes on legendary Australian Wagnerian soprano Marjorie Lawrence who, at height of career (20s & 30s), was stricken with polio. Lavishly staged scenes from operas -- sung by the astonishing Eileen Farrell (American pop/Wagnerian songstress of 40s & 50s) -- make this quite the feast for dually addicted film/opera fans. Best of all is footage of Parker/Lawrence making a tough comeback by belting out the 'Siegfried' Brunnhilde and Isolde from reclining position. They really don't make them like this anymore. How many 14-year-old males with their bills pointed backwards would buy tickets?
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