Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody
	Film poster
Directed by	Curtis Bernhardt
Screenplay by	Sonya Levien; William Ludwig
Based on	Interrupted Melody; 1949 book; by Marjorie Lawrence
Produced by	Jack Cummings
Starring	Eleanor Parker; Glenn Ford; Roger Moore; Cecil Kellaway
Cinematography	Joseph Ruttenberg,; Paul C. Vogel
Edited by	John D. Dunning
Music by	Alexander Courage; Adolph Deutsch
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	March 25, 1955 (United States);
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,367,000
Box office	$4,028,000

Interrupted Melody is a 1955 American musical biopic film starring Eleanor Parker, Glenn Ford, Roger Moore, and Cecil Kellaway. Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, it was filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color, and produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Jack Cummings. With a screenplay by Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig, the operatic sequences were staged by Vladimir Rosing, and Eileen Farrell provided the singing voice for Parker. It tells the story of Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence's rise to fame as an opera singer and her subsequent triumph over polio with her husband's help

^ Griffin, Helga M. Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ Domestic take see also "The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955", Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956.