Mario Lanza: The American Caruso 1983 Directed by John Musilli
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.
Cast
Plácido Domingo
Narrator
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Self
Kathryn Grayson
Self
Dorothy Kirsten
Self
Gisele MacKenzie
Self
Joe Pasternak
Self
Terry Robinson
Self
Mario Lanza
Self (archive footage)
