Interrupted Melody | |
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Directed by | Curtis Bernhardt |
Screenplay by | Sonya Levien William Ludwig |
Based on | Interrupted Melody 1949 book by Marjorie Lawrence[1] |
Produced by | Jack Cummings |
Starring | Eleanor Parker Glenn Ford Roger Moore Cecil Kellaway |
Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg, Paul C. Vogel |
Edited by | John D. Dunning |
Music by | Alexander Courage Adolph Deutsch |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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