Because You're Mine is a 1952 musical comedy film starring Mario Lanza. Directed by Alexander Hall, the film also stars Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore, and Dean Miller.
Opera singer superstar Renato Rossano is drafted into the U.S. Army. His Sergeant, "Bat" Batterson is an opera fan who admires Rossano and wishes Rossano to appraise his sister's singing voice. The rest of his platoon as well as the company commander disapproves of Batterson's sho...
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Because You're Mine is a 1952 musical comedy film starring Mario Lanza. Directed by Alexander Hall, the film also stars Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore, and Dean Miller.
Opera singer superstar Renato Rossano is drafted into the U.S. Army. His Sergeant, "Bat" Batterson is an opera fan who admires Rossano and wishes Rossano to appraise his sister's singing voice. The rest of his platoon as well as the company commander disapproves of Batterson's showing favourtism to Rossano by excusing him from normal training. Rossano also schemes to have Master Sgt Batterson allow him to go to New York supposedly to have his manager appraise Batterson's sister, Brigit's singing voice but in reality allowing him to do a performance.
The filming was interrupted and during the hiatus Lanza put on a considerable amount of weight. According to his manager, Lanza then began to lose weight and ended filming at less than 160 pounds. This resulted in some challenges for both the wardrobe artists and the film...
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