Product Description

30 Sep 54: Pagliacci, songs, with Betty Grable and Harry James. 28 Oct 51: Tosca and Vagabond King. 31 Oct 57: Santa Lucia; Beacuse You're Mine; Ave Maria (Schubert), plus interview with Mario and Betty Lanza.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27354 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-10
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Black & White, Classical, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

About the Actor
On the programmes Lanza is warm, appealing, manly, charismatic and full of vitality. On some occasions his voice sounded coarse, thick and laboured. But here it has a glow - the full voice rings, the mezza voce is sweet. When he sings you see that his tongue has a furrow down the middle, as advocated by many voice teachers.

Customer Reviews

BETTY GRABLE & MARIO LANZA SHOWER OF STARS 1954
This was the first in the Shower of Stars tv shows, Betty Grable was a regular guest star with husband harry james,made in 1954 transmitted in colour, this dvd is a black and white "kinescope" (a 16mm film recording made alongside the tv camera)Betty Shone bright in this show , Lanza less so , he could not mime to the songs properly , Betty could.
Grable all the way.