Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody
Film poster
Directed byCurtis Bernhardt
Screenplay bySonya Levien
William Ludwig
Based onInterrupted Melody
1949 book
by Marjorie Lawrence[1]
Produced byJack Cummings
StarringEleanor Parker
Glenn Ford
Roger Moore
Cecil Kellaway
CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg,
Paul C. Vogel
Edited byJohn D. Dunning
Music byAlexander Courage
Adolph Deutsch
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • March 25, 1955 (1955-03-25) (United States)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,367,000[2]
Box office$4,028,000[2][3]

Interrupted Melody is a 1955 American musical biopic film starring Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford, Roger Moore, and Cecil Kellaway. Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, it was filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color, and produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Jack Cummings. With a screenplay by Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig, the operatic sequences were staged by Vladimir Rosing, and Eileen Farrell provided the singing voice for Parker. It tells the story of Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence's rise to fame as an opera singer and her subsequent triumph over polio with her husband's help

  1. ^ Griffin, Helga M. "Marjorie Florence Lawrence (1907–1979)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ Domestic take see also "The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955", Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956.