Arrivederci Roma (English title: Seven Hills of Rome) was tenor Mario Lanza's penultimate film. Shot in 1957 on location in Rome and at the Titanus studios in the Italian capital, the movie was released by MGM in January 1958.
The Technirama film tells the story of Marc Revere, an American TV singer of Italian heritage who travels to Italy in search of his jet-setting fiancée, Carol Ralston, played by Peggie Castle. Revere moves in with his comic...
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Arrivederci Roma (English title: Seven Hills of Rome) was tenor Mario Lanza's penultimate film. Shot in 1957 on location in Rome and at the Titanus studios in the Italian capital, the movie was released by MGM in January 1958.
The Technirama film tells the story of Marc Revere, an American TV singer of Italian heritage who travels to Italy in search of his jet-setting fiancée, Carol Ralston, played by Peggie Castle. Revere moves in with his comical and good hearted cousin Pepe Bonelli (Renato Rascel), a struggling artist who also befriends a beautiful young girl, Raffaella Marini (Marisa Allasio), whom Revere had met on a train. Like Lanza, this was Allasio's next-to-last film (the 17th of her career), as she would marry Count Pierfrancesco Calvi di Bergolo, grandson of His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, in November 1958 and retire from the cinema.
Among the selections that Lanza sings in this "vocal tour de force" (Variety) is "Arrivederci Roma", performed in the...
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