Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody

1955 | 1h 46m | Biography, Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

True story of Australian opera star Marjorie Lawrence with a career singing all over the world and an adoring husband. But, while touring, Marjorie is stricken with polio and must fight to live and regain the use of her body.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Curtis Bernhardt

CAST

Glenn Ford

Eleanor Parker

Roger Moore

Cecil Kellaway

Peter Leeds

PRODUCERS

Jack Cummings

WRITERS

Sonya Levien

William Ludwig

Marjorie Lawrence

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04:16
Interrupted Melody (1955) -- (Movie Clip) That's What Wagner Wrote!
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Preparing to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera, 1936, Australian Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) tangles with director Leopold Sachse (playing himself) over Wagner, then does it her way, which really happened, Glenn Ford her cheering husband, in MGM's Interrupted Melody, 1955.
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Interrupted Melody (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Carmen
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Now touring Italy, Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker), with her manager-brother (Roger Moore) meets a count (Stephen Bekassy), then in Bizet's Carmen, the "Seguidilla," aims to seduce her captor (William Olvis), in the MGM bio-pic Interrupted Melody, 1955.
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Interrupted Melody (1955) -- (Movie Clip) You Came 14,000 Miles
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Clever vignette on the arrival of Australian singer Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) in Paris, ca. 1929, bumping into Glenn Ford, who will feature later, then an impromptu audition for Mme. Gilly (Ann Codee), whose struggling pupil is Eileen Farrell, the soprano who dubbed Parker's singing, in the bio-pic Interrupted Melody, 1955.
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Interrupted Melody (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Winchelsea
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In 1928 Australia, young singer Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) races to a regional competition (her stunt double ducking behind the crates), arriving just in time to deliver her Verdi aria, pretty much historically accurate, early in MGM's Interrupted Melody, 1955.
04:08
Interrupted Melody (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Are You A Dane?
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On the evening of her successful opera debut in Monte Carlo, 1932, Australian singer Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) phones home, handsome American doctor Tom (Glenn Ford) overhearing, celebrating and establishing the love-interest, in the MGM bio-pic Interrupted Melody, 1955.
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Interrupted Melody - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
True story of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) and her battle against polio. Co-starring Glenn Ford.

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