The Young Caruso
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Music director Carlo Franci Country Italy | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Drama, Music Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1951 Writer Frank Thies (novel), Giacomo Gentilomo, Maleno Malenotti, Fulvio Palmieri, Piero Pierotti, Giovanna Soria Screenplay Giacomo Gentilomo, Maleno Malenotti, Piero Pierotti, Fulvio Palmieri, Giovanna Soria Cast Similar movies Movies with tenors, Gina Lollobrigida movies, Based on operas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Young Caruso is an 1951 Italian biographical film about Enrico Caruso, directed by Giacomo Gentilomo. It stars Ermanno Randi as Enrico Caruso and Gina Lollobrigida. Its original Italian title is Enrico Caruso: leggenda di una voce (Enrico Caruso: Legend of a Voice).
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It was produced by Asso Film, Londo Films and Tirenna Film Associata di Roma. It was adapted from a novel by Frank Thiess, Neapolitanische Legende (Neapolitan Legend). The film follows the life of the legendary tenor from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame. Caruso's voice was provided by Mario Del Monaco and Lollobrigida's voice was dubbed by Dhia Cristiani.
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Although an initial commercial success, the film producers knew that the film was almost total fiction; indeed, an introductory title describes the plot as "a poetic interpretation of [Caruso's] youth." The film has thus been called a "travesty" because it had so many biographical inaccuracies. The film greatly upset the Caruso family who ended up suing the producers of the film for five million lire.The family also successfully sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who was forced to withdraw The Great Caruso from distribution in Italy because of that film's many inaccuracies.
Shortly after the film's release Ermanno Randi was murdered by his lover Giuseppe Maggiore in a jealous rage.
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