> Zefirelli has finished filming CALLAS FOREVER, with French actress Fanny > Ardant in the title role, and also starring Jeremy Irons and Joan Plowright. > Don't > know who will be dubbing the singing.
They are using the Callas recordings, I saw a couple of snippets from it on italian TV. It is about an impresario trying to get Callas to make films to her recordings, the scenes I saw were from Carmen.
There is another hysterically funny film called "Everybody's doing it" from 1950 (about) in which Celeste Holme is a society lady who wants to sing opera, but her husband (Paul Douglas)doesn't want her to. (Why not? she asks. "Because you stink" is his reply.) Then he discovers HE has an incredible baritone voice, (every time he sings a high F the candelier shatters) and, unknown to her goes on a concert tour. (He is seduced into it by a gorgeous soprano, Linda Darnell, I think) Finally he makes his opera debut as a sort of Egyptian slave in one of those campy fake Hollywood operas, except he is terribly nervous, and everyone gives him something to drink, and by the time he gets on stage he is stoned. It is well worth looking for, no idea if it is on video.
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