Mario Lanza: The American Caruso

Plácido Domingo hosts this tribute to American tenor Mario Lanza. Interviews, rare footage and vintage recordings chronicle Lanza's life from his Philadelphia childhood to his meteoric rise as an opera singer and film actor and his tragic death. Credited with bringing opera and classical music into the home of everyday Americans, Lanza starred in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans and portrayed Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso.

• Release date
• January 1, 1983
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Documentary, TV Movie
• Director
• John Musilli

Cast

Plácido Domingo Narrator Zsa Zsa Gabor Self Kathryn Grayson Self Dorothy Kirsten Self

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Gisele MacKenzie Self Joe Pasternak Self

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Terry Robinson Self Mario Lanza Self (archive footage)