Mario Lanza Serenade - Student Prince HQ Widescreen

[N1mr0d100]

I thought this was "O the heather moon is beaming, bright as blossom ..." Just looked it up and it gave me the right words. So glad to find it. So glad for Youtube. As Mario sings it, there are phrases that just make my knees turn to water. maowongbob I would've been 15 in 1965 and in love with Mario for 6 years, but..sigh. Curious..why too late?

[maowongbigbob]

no one would believe me, but way back in 1965, I practiced this song until almost perfect hoping to sing it to any girl who would be interested, but sigh...no luck. yet after getting married and happening to meet a lady who loved classicals, it was too late in 2005 sigh. this beautiful song.

[higiniomalave]

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[stars22mm]

Thank you again you have given me purity of performance from your staff I wish to meet your you all thank you for the beauty of your youth Thank you Utube

[hudsoninbury]

That is NOT Mario Lanza playing the part in the film

The Prince was played by Edmund Purdom.

IT IS ONLY MARIO LANZA 's VOICE

Mario Lanza had already recorded the sound track when a dispute developed and they only used his voice as they had the rights to these recordings . Mario Lanza was American

[AegisNova]

@hudsoninbury I don't know how much of a dispute there was, but the documentary I saw years ago attributed the decision to give the role to Purdom had to do with the weight fluctuations Lanza suffered during filming. They were quite noticeable from scene to scene, as the scenes (shot out-of-sequence) were spliced into place.

[hudsoninbury]

@AegisNova That was an interesting comment regarding the disput and I am certain you are correct. I seem to remember that now . - glad you mentioned it - thanks :)

[Tennessee3501]

@AegisNova, Mario Lanza recorded the songs for "The Student Prince" in the summer of 1952. The legend is that orchestra leader Constantine Callinicos had him do one take on each song being recorded for the movie and then stopped and proclaimed his performance to be "perfect! Although Mario Lanza's biographies say the legend is not entirely accurate, it is clear that he recorded the songs in a minimum number of sessions. Then the dispute arose. It was, in part, the weight problems.

[Tennessee3501]

@AegisNova, The major problem, however, was that the director of the movie did not approve of Mario's interpretation of the song "Beloved" which had been written specifically for the movie and had not been in the original operetta. A director could tell Mario how to act, but never how to sing. Mario refused to make the movie unless and until the director was fired. He walked off the set and almost two years of litigation followed. The suits were finally settled.

[Tennessee3501]

AegisNova, The terms of the settlement were that MGM would use Mario Lanza's recordings in the movie and have them lip-synched by Edmond Purdom. Mario's record label (RCA Victor Red Seal) received all of the proceeds of the record album released, and Mario kept his royalties. At the time the album made much more money than the movie which was finally released in 1954. Many Mario Lanza fans believe the album to be his best work. Only Mario Lanza's voice is in the film.

[AegisNova]

@Tennessee3501 Ah!  Now this, I did not know! Thank You! That's why I tried to phrase the way I did in the first part of my answer. I admit, I thought it was primarily the weight changes, but also knew that I may not have had the whole story. Two years of litigation...

[Tennessee3501]

@AegisNova, the weight problems of Mariio Lanza plagued him on almost all the pictures he made. The was especiially true of "Because Your Mine" released in 1952. He lost 80 pounds during the filming. A recent biography claims he was bi-polar and he was a manic depressive in the days before lithium. When he walked off the set of "The Student Prince", MGM obtained an injunction prohibiting from working any where, and his hit weekly Coca-Cola sponsored radio show was cancelled.

[higiniomalave]

he was a upstanding singer , pity he did not lasted very long he died in its late 30 years or perhaps young fortys

[Tennessee3501]

@higiniomalave, he was 38 years of age when he died on October 7, 1959. Although the cause of death was originallt believed to have been a heart attack (there was no autopsy), a recent biography presented strong evidence that it was a pulmonary embolism since he had a lengtrhy history of phlebitis. A documentary for PBS claimed that he may have been the victim of a "hit" because he threw Charles "Lucky" Luciano out of his house and refused to appear to sing and Luciano sponsored charity event.

[Tennessee3501]

@higinomalave, The "hit" theory has been pretty well discredited, because Mario was suffereing from so many illnesses, including heart disease and phlebitis, during the last few years of his life and he died in a clinic. The hit theory was that the mob placed an air bubble in his IV feeding tube. If the mob wanted to send a message, they had more obvious methods which were seen weekly on "The Sopranos."

[27jengirl]

he's so cute and has a fantastic voice when I get an I pod I'm buying his songs :0

[Annamarie2000]

Lovely, thanks for posting. I used to listen to this with my Mom.

[terryjean99]

great posting ty so much for this