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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Marjorie Lawrence (life story)
William Ludwig (written by) ...
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Release Date:
October 1955 (West Germany) more
Plot:
The film chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
User Comments:
They don't make beautiful films like this anymore more (19 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Glenn Ford | ... | Dr. Thomas 'Tom' King |
 | Eleanor Parker | ... | Marjorie 'Margie' Lawrence |
 | Roger Moore | ... | Cyril Lawrence |
| Cecil Kellaway | ... | Bill Lawrence |
| Peter Leeds | ... | Dr. Ed Ryson |
| Evelyn Ellis | ... | Clara |
| Walter Baldwin | ... | Jim Owens |
| Ann Codee | ... | Madame Gilly |
| Leopold Sachse | ... | Himself |
| Stephen Bekassy | ... | Count Claude des Vignaux |
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| Sandy Descher | ... | Suzie (scenes deleted) |
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106 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.55 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Sound System)
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Greer Garson was originally set to play the lead role of Marjorie Lawrence, but the film was postponed for about one year. Garson wanted the part very badly and researched the role extensively. One month after she left MGM (the studio filming the movie), Eleanor Parker was cast. more
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Factual errors: When Marjorie 'Margie' Lawrence takes a same-day return trip by steam train from her merino sheep farm at Winchelsea to Geelong, she does so on Anzac Day. At 4 minutes 12 seconds, the sign says "Friday April 25". The first Anzac Day was on 25th April 1916. Friday 25th April 1924 is the only possible Friday Anzac Day. more
Quotes:
Marjorie Lawrence:
[drinking champagne] Tonight I love the whole world and I want them to know it.
Dr. Thomas King:
And tomorrow you'll have a monumental hangover.
Marjorie Lawrence:
That's the advantage of going out with doctors.
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References The Wizard of Oz (1939) more
Soundtrack:
Don Carlos more
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This film will always have a great significance to me because it introduced me to the beauty of opera. Marjorie Lawrence was a major soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, and her career was cut short by polio while she was still in her vocal prime. Her story is told with great sensitivity and warmth. The operatic scenes are done to perfection, with the superb soprano Eileen Farrell doing the vocals. Eleanor Parker is seen here in what must be her greatest work as an actress. Parker was a great, if somewhat under-appreciated actress, and she was a beautiful woman. Of course, it is she who dominates the movie. Glenn Ford provides excellent support as her doctor husband who guides her back to her career. When this film was released, I was ten years old, and kept going back again and again to see it over and over. I loved the music, loved the story, and will forever be indebted to it for having introduced me to the beauty of grand opera. If I had to choose a film as the most important of my life, it would have to be this one.