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7 August 1953 (USA) moreTagline:
Shining With Glorious Music...Breathtaking Ballet...Unforgettable Romance!Plot:
The highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Nothing like the Dame moreCast
(Credited cast) | Patrice Munsel | ... | Nellie Melba |
| Robert Morley | ... | Oscar Hammerstein I |
| John McCallum | ... | Charles Armstrong |
| John Justin | ... | Eric Walton |
| Alec Clunes | ... | Cesar Carlton |
| Martita Hunt | ... | Mme. Marchesi |
| Sybil Thorndike | ... | Queen Victoria |
| Joseph Tomelty | ... | Thomas Mitchell |
| Beatrice Varley | ... | Aunt Catherine |
| Violette Elvin | ... | Prima Ballerina |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Theodore Bikel | ... | Paul Brotha |
| Cecile Chevreau | ... | Annette |
| Charles Craig | ||
| Marcel Poncin | ... | Roger |
| Dorit Welles | ... | Adelina Patti |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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A J. Arthur Rank British-made film biography of Nellie Melba, to star Deanna Durbin, and to be produced in Technicolor by Sydney Box, was briefly considered in 1947. moreSoundtrack:
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Lewis Milestone said this film should have been called "Melba" like he should have been called "Napoleon". And he wasn't kidding. This 'biopic' has absolutely nothing to do with Dame Nellie Melba; people who complained about historical inaccuracies in "Amadeus" and "Topsy Turvy" should get a load of this!
For those who don't know, Nellie Melba was one of the most vigorous, dominating figures in the Arts at the turn of the twentieth century. Through her awesome talents and sheer determintaion she went from an obscure farmer's wife in Queensland to the reigning prima donna of her generation.
She was emphatically not the twittering soubrette that Patrice Munsel and company would have us believe, and its hard to find a single point where this film corresponds to reality. Madame Munsel's shrill, piercing tones also bear little resemblance to Melba's sublime and bewitching voice.
Taken on its own terms, "Melba" is a dead bore, a technicoloured and garish pastiche of what fame does to destroy love. Its quite ghastly and not even good camp.