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So This Is Love (1953)Biopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947. Director:Gordon DouglasWriter:John Monks Jr. |
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Grace Moore
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Buddy Nash
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| Joan Weldon | ... |
Ruth Obre
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Colonel James Moore
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Rosemary DeCamp | ... |
Aunt Laura Stokley
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Jeff Donnell | ... |
Henrietta Van Dyke
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Bryan Curtis
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Mrs. James Moore
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Margaret Field | ... |
Edna Wallace
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Mabel Albertson | ... |
Mary Garden
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Fortunio Bonanova | ... |
Dr. Marafioti
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Marilyn Montgomery
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Noreen Corcoran | ... |
Grace Moore at 8
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Biopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947.
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When she shimmied, the show world shook! When she sang, the whole world thrilled!Parents Guide:
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15 July 1953 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A História de Grace Moore See more »Company Credits
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From the opera "Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)"
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lyrics by Lorenzo da Ponte
Sung by Kathryn Grayson
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"Voi, che sapete"(uncredited)
From the opera "Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)"
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lyrics by Lorenzo da Ponte
Sung by Kathryn Grayson
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Kathryn Grayson portrays singer Grace Moore in "So This is Love," a 1953 musical biography. Merv Griffin, of all people, plays one of her suitors. The film also features Douglas Dick, Jeff Donnell, Joan Weldon, Walter Abel, Ann Doran, and Rosemary DeCamp.
As pointed out in other reviews, this is a small part of Moore's story, concerning her early life and her efforts to become an opera star. The film also shows her Broadway success, but fails to show that she introduced the song "What'll I Do." And it completely leaves out her film career, which went from 1930 to 1939.
Moore was a lyric soprano and strongly tied to French repertoire, specifically Manon and Louise, as well as La Boheme; eventually she went into more spinto repertoire with Tosca. In films, she sang arias from Madama Butterfly and "Casta Diva" from Norma. All of which is to say that she and coloratura Kathryn Grayson did not share much repertoire. The music performed in the film, therefore, is more suited to Grayson's voice.
Kathryn Grayson does a lovely job as Moore. She's very pretty and her voice is in good shape as the ambitious singer Moore, and she's effective in the musical comedy numbers as well as the operatic ones. I don't know that her singing of "Mi chiamano Mimi" would have garnered her a standing ovation from a Metropolitan Opera audience, but the aria was put into the film as Mimi was Moore's Met debut. It's not really right for Grayson's voice.
Moore died in a plane crash in 1947, and I can't imagine a biopic today leaving that out. This film concentrates on music and the driving ambition of a young girl determined to make it on the opera stage. On that basis, it's entertaining.