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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.
Interrupted Melody: Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. With Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway. This movie chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Curtis Bernhardt
- 1955-07-01
Summaries. This movie chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence 's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback. Marjorie Lawrence crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice.
Sumptuously filmed in Cinemascope and Technicolor, with stunning operatic sequences, Interrupted Melody was nominated for three Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Parker. The film won one Oscar® for best story and screenplay.
Biopic of Australian star Marjorie Lawrence, who took the opera world by storm and made a remarkable comeback after being crippled by polio, with the help of her devoted husband, Dr. Tim King.
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- Curtis Bernhardt
- Biography
- Eleanor Parker
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
