jfarms1956
Interrupted Melody is a movie best enjoyed by older teens and up and those who are romantics at heart, who know a friend or loved one that is handicapped, or by those who love music. Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford make the movie. They are very good. The musical numbers are ear candy. Just watch the movie for the ear candy alone. The movie moves along at a good clip. The movie's premise is that through love and support anyone can achieve their dream is brought to life by Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford. However, in real life, it is not always the case. It is a movie for prime time or s weekend afternoon. Grab your popcorn and a soda. Relax. Enjoy!
TheLittleSongbird
Anybody who loves great acting, even better singing, beautiful visuals, great scripting, an inspiring and moving story and some of the best music ever written will simply love Interrupted Melody, as it has every single one of those things. It is a beautifully produced film, lavishly shot with equally glamorous costumes and sets and bursting with colour. The music, with Carmen, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner(the roles of whom Marjorie Lawrence was most famous for) as well as renditions of Waltzing Matilda and Over the Rainbow cannot be faulted, not everybody I'm aware likes opera music, I adore it myself and the music presented here is some of the best of the medium. The scenes in which they appear are very well-staged, Gotterdammerung's Immolation Scene in relation to Lawrence is interesting for Lawrence being the first in the role to ride the horse into the flames. The story is inspiring, with the drama with the polio handled most sensitively and movingly, while the script sparkles, it won an Oscar and deserved it. The direction is deft, allowing the drama to resonate and doesn't let things get overblown. Eleanor Parker gives one of her best performances, she is very beautiful, determined and very poignant being overwrought, and Glenn Ford is superb also, some of the best work he ever did. The two work affectingly together, and the supporting cast are solid especially Roger Moore. Special mention should also go to Eileen Farrell(35 at this point) who provided singing voice for Parker, and she is nothing short of sensational, her voice was powerful, thrilling and of quite beautiful tone complete with a big range which she always used with great artistry. What's also remarkable is that even when you don't see her on screen, she still brings out the character through her vocal expression. All in all, beautiful, not just as a biographical drama but as a film full-stop. 10/10 Bethany Cox
dahlink
I am a great-niece of Marjorie Lawrence. It's a very sad fact that Marjorie is best known outside of Australia. However, she was recently honored as one of 100 Australian Entertainers of the Century. It's also a bit of a shame that this movie is a Hollywood producer's interpretation of an American publisher's version of my Great-Aunt's life. The real family story is actually much more interesting. Auntie Marj never smoked a cigarette in her life - but it seems everyone smoked in the movies of the 50s. My mother and my aunt attended the world premiere here in Melbourne. I remember meeting Auntie Marj as a child in the 70s.
maria.klimesch
I saw "Interrupted Melody" in 1995 or 1996 in Salzburg when I was 15 or 16 years old. It impressed me so much, that music was my great and only love for many years. I never forgot Eleanor Parker as Marjorie Lawrence. Now the youngest of my 4 children lives in Vienna and she is a very great opera-fan, nearly every day she visits the standing-place of the Vienna Staatsoper... I hope so much to get a video of "Interrupted Melody", that we can see this great and lovely film together.
