Ann Blyth, the versatile Hollywood actress who earned an Academy Award nomination at 17 for playing Joan Crawford's ...
Elsewhere in Tuesday’s paper you can find my humble little story about renewed interest in the untimely death at 38 of tenor Mario Lanza, the huge — no pun intended — movie star of the 1950s. I didn’t ...
The cracks were already beginning to show, though: Lanza’s huge appetites and ballooning weight were beginning to be a concern, and director Curtis Bernhardt laughably disapproved of the “excess ...
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BALTIMORE, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Tenor Mario Lanza, who died at 38, likely damaged his health with radical weight-loss therapies, said a Maryland doctor who investigates notable deaths. Lanza, who was 5 ...
The recent centenary of Mario Lanza’s birth provides a nice opportunity to become acquainted with the movies of this tenor, who was on track to become one of the greatest opera singers of the century ...
Former San Franciscan Sean Patrick Murtagh offers an impressive debut CD with "The Mario 101," an homage to the great Hollywood tenor Mario Lanza. The album, which is now available, features a dozen ...
(See Cover)It was the emotion-packed end of Act I of Pagliacci, and the clown’s heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered ...