The Great Caruso

The Great Caruso
Original film poster
Directed byRichard Thorpe
Written byWilliam Ludwig
Produced byJoe Pasternak
StarringMario Lanza
CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg
Edited byGene Ruggiero
Music byJohnny Green
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • April 27, 1951 (1951-04-27)
Running time
109 mins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,853,000[1]
Box office$9,269,000[1]

The Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza as famous operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer. The screenplay, by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig, was suggested by the biography Enrico Caruso His Life and Death by Dorothy Caruso, the tenor's widow. The original music was composed and arranged by Johnny Green and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Costume design was by Helen Rose and Gile Steele.

The film is a highly fictionalized biography of the life of Caruso.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study