The Great Caruso

MGM's version of the meeting of the title character Enrico (Mario Lanza) and his future wife Dorothy Park Benjamin (Ann Blyth) in New York, the date unclear, when he comes to apologize to another Metropolitan Opera singer (Dorothy Kirsten), in The Great Caruso, 1951.

Montage tracks the hero's rise through Italian opera and MGM trusts the audience to read the newspaper headline, as Mario Lanza makes his first visit back home in The Great Caruso, 1951.

Growing-up montage leads to Mario Lanza as the title character dedicating a song to childhood sweetheart Musetta (Yvette Duguay), before his rise to fame in MGM's The Great Caruso, 1951.