Great Caruso, The

Hungarian title:

A nagy Caruso

Artist:

Csernus Tibor

Size:

A2 1/2 Sheet (cca. 59 x 42 cm)

Year:

1959

Condition:

Very good, strong fold marks, creasing, tiny holes, writing.

Material:

Paper, offset lithography.

Price: US$400

Description:

The Great Caruso is a 1959 Hungarian vintage movie poster designed by Tibor Csernus.

The Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza as famous operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer. The screenplay, by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig, was suggested by the biography Enrico Caruso His Life and Death by Dorothy Caruso, the tenor's widow. The original music was composed and arranged by Johnny Green and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Costume design was by Helen Rose and Gile Steele. The film is a highly fictionalized biography of the life of Caruso. (source: wikipedia.org)

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