The Stars Are Singing
1953 film by Norman Taurog
- March 11, 1953 (1953-03-11)
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The Stars Are Singing is a 1953 Paramount Pictures musical directed by Norman Taurog and starring Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Lauritz Melchior. Clooney performs her hit song "Come On-a My House" and Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior sings "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci in this Technicolor production.[1]
Plot
A 15-year-old Polish girl attempts to enter the U.S. illegally, setting off a major search by immigration officials. She is befriended by a struggling group of New York performers, who try to get approval for her to remain in the country.
Cast
- Rosemary Clooney as Terry Brennan
- Anna Maria Alberghetti as Katri Walenska
- Lauritz Melchior as Jan Poldi
- Bob Williams as Homer Tirdell
- Tom Morton as Buddy Fraser
- Fred Clark as McDougall
- John Archer as Dave Parish
- Mikhail Rasumny as Ladowski
- Lloyd Corrigan as Miller
- Don Wilson as Radio Announcer
- Otto Waldis as Ship's Captain Goslak
- Henry Guttman as Ship's Mate
- Paul E. Burns as Henryk
- Freeman Lusk as Conway
Production
The film cost $1,264,337[2] and earned an estimated $1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.[3]
Release
The film's world premier was in Clooney's home town, Maysville, Kentucky, at the Russell Theatre.
References
External links
- The Stars Are Singing at IMDb
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Films directed by Norman Taurog
- Lucky Boy (1929)
- The Diplomats (1929)
- In Holland (1929)
- The Medicine Men (1929)
- Troopers Three (1930)
- Sunny Skies (1930)
- Hot Curves (1930)
- Follow the Leader (1930)
- Finn and Hattie (1931)
- Skippy (1931)
- Forbidden Adventure (1931)
- Huckleberry Finn (1931)
- Sooky (1931)
- Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
- The Phantom President (1932)
- If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue", 1932)
- A Bedtime Story (1933)
- The Way to Love (1933)
- We're Not Dressing (1934)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
- College Rhythm (1934)
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1936)
- Strike Me Pink (1936)
- Rhythm on the Range (1936)
- Reunion (1936)
- Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
- You Can't Have Everything (1937)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
- Mad About Music (1938)
- Boys Town (1938)
- The Girl Downstairs (1938)
- Lucky Night (1939)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- Young Tom Edison (1940)
- Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- Men of Boys Town (1941)
- Design for Scandal (1941)
- Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
- A Yank at Eton (1942)
- Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
- Girl Crazy (1943)
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
- The Beginning or the End (1947)
- The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
- Big City (1948)
- Words and Music (1948)
- That Midnight Kiss (1949)
- Please Believe Me (1950)
- The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
- Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)
- Room for One More (1952)
- Jumping Jacks (1952)
- The Stooge (1953)
- The Stars Are Singing (1953)
- The Caddy (1953)
- Living It Up (1954)
- You're Never Too Young (1954)
- The Birds and the Bees (1956)
- Pardners (1956)
- Bundle of Joy (1956)
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1958)
- Onionhead (1958)
- Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
- Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
- G.I. Blues (1960)
- All Hands on Deck (1961)
- Blue Hawaii (1961)
- Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
- It Happened at the World's Fair (1962)
- Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
- Tickle Me (1965)
- Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
- Spinout (1966)
- Double Trouble (1967)
- Speedway (1968)
- Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
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