"The Stars Are Singing"

Lauritz Melchoir stops by New York's "Cosmopolitan Opera House" in "The Stars Are Singing" (Paramount, 1953). He plays an ex-opera star looking for a favor but fears the general manager of the company won't see him -- at their last encounter he broke some furniture. Here he's checking out a limo in front to see if it's the manager's.

 

The stage doorman recognizes him and, although has doubts, brings Lauritz in and asks him to wait downstage left while he inquires. This shot is a studio set.    

 

 He looks out at the house. For this shot they used an image of Philharmonic Auditorium, 5th and Olive. 

 

He looks toward house left and has a vision of one of his triumphs in the house, singing an aria from "Pagliacci." For this we're definitely NOT at the Philharmonic.  

 

 

Taking a bow at the end of his daydream. The doorman comes back with the news that the manager will not see him.  

He was looking for help with the authorities about his niece, a young Polish girl played by Anna Maria Alberghetti who stowed away on a ship and jumped into the harbor before the ship docked. She does get help by new friends Rosemary Clooney, Bob Williams and Tommy Morton. Also involved are Fred Clark, Don Wilson, Lloyd Corrigan and Mikhail Rasumny. And Ike. Norman Taurog directed. Lionel Lindon did the Technicolor cinematography. 

See the page about the Philharmonic Auditorium on the Los Angeles Theatres site.  

On IMDb: "The Stars Are Singing"     The full film is on YouTube. 

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