1955
Curtis Bernhardt
Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds, Evelyn Ellis, Walter Baldwin, Ann Codee, Leopold Sachse, Stephen Bekassy
Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut at the Paris Opera she becomes famous overnight, and her debut at the Met in New York establishes her as one of the great singers of her time. With all her dreams come true, tragedy strikes in the form of infantile paralysis and she faces a life of confinement to a wheel chair. Although she reaches the depths of despair, she manages through the love and devotion of her husband, Dr. Tom King (Glenn Ford), she begins to build a new career by singing to servicemen who, like herself, are confined to wheel chairs. ------- Despite her humble background as the daughter of an Australian sheep farmer, Marjorie Lawrence travels to Europe to study opera after she wins a regional opera contest in Geelong. Against the odds of even getting noticed by a vocal coach, she manages to train under the tutelage of renowned Madame Gilly. From there, with her brother Cyril at her side as her manager, Marjorie goes from one operatic success to another through Europe. When she goes to New York for her debut at the Met, she reconnects with obstetrician Dr. Thomas King, the man who helped a then lonely Marjorie celebrate her first ever opera success in Monte Carlo years earlier. Despite their competing professional priorities - Tom is just starting his medical practice - Tom and Marjorie decide to marry, with Marjorie forgoing touring. The focus of their lives change when Marjorie is stricken with polio, the disease which confines her to a wheelchair. Marjorie retreats not only from singing but from life. It isn't until she is shown others less fortunate than herself that she begins to work toward a life as a singer again.
253 minutes (at 29.97 frames per second)
1795 MB
DivX - resolution: 854x344