The Great Caruso (1951) |
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| Director(s) | Richard Thorpe |
| Producer(s) | Jesse L. Lasky, Joe Pasternak |
| Top Genres | Biographical, Drama, Musical |
| Top Topics | Singers, True Story (based on) |
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Mario Lanza(as Enrico Caruso)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Mario Lanza
(as Enrico Caruso)
Ann Blyth(as Dorothy Benjamin)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Ann Blyth
(as Dorothy Benjamin)
Richard Hageman(as Carlo Santi)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Richard Hageman
(as Carlo Santi)
Carl Benton Reid(as Park Benjamin)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Carl Benton Reid
(as Park Benjamin)
Ludwig Donath(as Alfredo Brazzi)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Ludwig Donath
(as Alfredo Brazzi)
Alan Napier(as Jean de Reszke)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Alan Napier
(as Jean de Reszke)
Nestor Paiva(as Egisto Barretto)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Nestor Paiva
(as Egisto Barretto)
Ian Wolfe(as Hutchins)
The Great Caruso
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1951
The Great Caruso
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1951
Ian Wolfe
(as Hutchins)
The Great Caruso Overview:
The Great Caruso (1951) was a Biographical - Drama Film directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Joe Pasternak.
Academy Awards 1951 --- Ceremony Number 24 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Costume Design | Helen Rose, Gile Steele | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Peter Herman Adler, Johnny Green | Nominated |
The Great Caruso BlogHub Articles:
Musical Monday: The Great Caruso (1951)
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: The Great Caruso (1951)... Read full article
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The Great Caruso Facts
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Conductor Richard Hageman, who played Carlo Santi in the film, actually knew Enrico Caruso and led several performances with him at the Metropolitan Opera, including the 1918 War Relief Benefit re-created in the film.
In October 1951, MGM was distributing this film on the drive-in theater circuit on a double bill with the Lassie movie The Painted Hills.
This was the next-to-last completed MGM film under Louis B. Mayer's supervision (the last was Show Boat, released in the summer of that year). A proxy fight soon after would see him removed as the head of the studio he helped to found. He was replaced by his former chief of production, Dore Schary. Mayer ran MGM for 27 years, Schary for barely 6.