Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

Mario Lanza: The American Caruso (1983)

Documentary TV Movie

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.

6.5
  • Release Date: 1983-01-01
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Director: John Musilli

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Cast

  • Plácido Domingo

    Narrator

  • Zsa Zsa Gabor

    Self

  • Kathryn Grayson

    Self

  • Dorothy Kirsten

    Self

  • Gisele MacKenzie

    Self

  • Joe Pasternak

    Self

  • Terry Robinson

    Self

  • Mario Lanza

    Self (archive footage)