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{{short description|1955 film by Curtis Bernhardt}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Interrupted Melody | image = Interruptedmelody1955.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = [[Curtis Bernhardt]] | producer = [[Jack Cummings (director)|Jack Cummings]] | writer = | based_on = {{based on|''Interrupted Melody''<br>1949 book|[[Marjorie Lawrence]]}}<ref>{{cite book|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lawrence-marjorie-florence-7115|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Helga M.|last=Griffin|chapter=Marjorie Florence Lawrence (1907β1979) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=19 January 2017}}</ref> | screenplay = [[Sonya Levien]]<br>[[William Ludwig (screenwriter)|William Ludwig]] | narrator = | starring = [[Eleanor Parker]]<br />[[Glenn Ford]]<br />[[Roger Moore]]<br />[[Cecil Kellaway]] | music = [[Alexander Courage]]<br />[[Adolph Deutsch]] | cinematography = [[Joseph Ruttenberg]]<br />[[Paul C. Vogel]] | editing = [[John Dunning (film editor)|John D. Dunning]] | distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | released = {{Film date|1955|3|25|United States}} | runtime = 106 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $2,367,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref> | gross = $4,028,000<ref name="Mannix"/><ref>Domestic take see also "The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955", ''Variety Weekly'', January 25, 1956.</ref> }} '''''Interrupted Melody''''' is a 1955 American [[musical film|musical]] [[biopic]] film about the opera singer [[Marjorie Lawrence]] starring [[Eleanor Parker]], [[Glenn Ford]], [[Roger Moore]], and [[Cecil Kellaway]]. Directed by [[Curtis Bernhardt]], it was filmed in [[CinemaScope]] and [[Eastmancolor|Eastman Color]], and produced for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] by [[Jack Cummings (director)|Jack Cummings]]. With an [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Oscar-winning screenplay]] by Lawrence, [[Sonya Levien]], and [[William Ludwig (screenwriter)|William Ludwig]], the operatic sequences were staged by [[Vladimir Rosing]], and [[Eileen Farrell]] provided the singing voice for Parker. It tells the story of Australian soprano [[Marjorie Lawrence]]'s rise to fame as an opera singer and her subsequent triumph over [[polio]] with her husband's help.
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