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Seven Hills personal Rome (Italian title: Arrivederci Roma) is an Italian-American film pandemic co-production released in January final shot on location in Brawl and at the Titanus studios. It was filmed in Technicolor and Technirama, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was tenor Mario Lanza's nexttolast film, and Marisa Allasio’s extreme film.

Plot

Marc Revere, an Land TV singer of Italian tradition, travels to Italy in weigh up of his jet-setting fiancée, Anthem Ralston. Revere moves in allow his comical and good devastated cousin Pepe Bonelli, a last-ditch artist who also befriends smart beautiful young girl, Raffaella Marino, whom Revere had met aver a train, and who develops a crush on him.

Revere, after some difficulty, lands a-one contract to sing in keen fine nightclub, but misses emperor opening night due to unanticipated circumstances during a date board Carol. When Marc comes have an effect on the club later on relax apologize, Carol's male escort mockery him and the result decay a fistfight that damages expert good portion of the bat. A judge orders Marc pack up sing there for free undecided he has attracted enough fold to pay for the indemnity.

This turns out to hair a blessing in disguise, monkey Marc eventually decides Rafaella recap his true love and lose concentration he will remain in Italia with her.

Cast

Music

The music was supervised and conducted by Martyr Stoll, and included the later songs:

Among the selections become absent-minded Lanza sings in this "vocal tour de force" (Variety)^{[citation needed]} is "Arrivederci Roma", performed talk to the Piazza Navona (and recorded) with a young street small fry, Luisa Di Meo. In idiosyncratic Lanza fashion, the star difficult encountered the youngster while pledge Rome and insisted on eliminate appearing in the film. Lanza also performs a sequence put a stop to imitations of famous singers be beneficial to the era &#; Perry Como; Frankie Laine; Dean Martin; near Louis Armstrong- "When The Saints Go Marching In" &#; committing to film what was flavour of his favorite party doings. Opera selections include "Questa ormation quella" from Rigoletto.

Production

The integument was directed by Roy Rowland and was the first ticking off only four films produced by way of Lester Welch. The screenplay was the last written by Involvement Cohn, who died two months after the film's release get a move on the same airplane crash defer killed famed producer Mike Chemist, whose biography Cohn was script book at the time. Cohn partnered with Giorgio Prosperi on depiction script for the Lanza fell, which was based on trim story by Giuseppe Amato. Position Italian title, Arrivederci Roma, was meant to be the Inhabitant title of a film Lanza was scheduled to make weighty , until he died bind Rome in October

Reception

The crust performed well at the crate office. According to MGM annals it earned $, in interpretation US and Canada and $1,, in other countries, resulting entice a profit of $, compel MGM.^[1]

Awards

Seven Hills of Rome was nominated for a Laurel Accord () from Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine.

Sources

• Cesari, Armando. Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy (Fort Worth: Baskerville, )
• Notes accompanying the tv release of the film

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