preciousladyg2 I enjoyed the great talent of Mario Lanza who portrayed Caruso. Although I'm not an opera fan, I appreciate the pageantry and the rich, full voices.I realize that this movie was made in the l950s when out of wedlock children portrayed in film weren't readily accepted. But, the real Caruso did father several children in addition to the baby daughter mentioned in the movie. He had a long relationship with an older lady.They could have mentioned his other children without getting into details. They may have still been alive when this movie was made. Their children and grandchildren, I'm sure, would've appreciated the acknowledgement of their existence and the respect.Also, here's another minor objection: When Caruso was showing off his baby to his friends a week after her birth, the nurse enters and berates him loudly in front of his friends for having the baby in the roomNow Caruso, being the dominant personality that he was, wouldn't have accepted that disrespect from her. A man like Caruso would have seen the baby as being his to do as he pleased, the nurse was working for him and could have been replaced.I could've seen him firing her on the spot for the disrespect and sending one of his assistants to go out and find another baby nurse.Minor complaints...otherwise I enjoyed this movie very much.

vitaleralphlouis THE GREAT CARUSO was the biggest hit in the world in 1951 and broke all box office records at Radio City Music Hall in a year when most "movergoers" were stay-at-homes watching their new 7" Motorola televisions. Almost all recent box office figures are false --- because they fail to adjust inflation. Obviously today's $10 movies will dominate. In 1951 it cost 90c to $1.60 at Radio City; 44c to 75c first run at Loew's Palace in Washington DC, or 35c to 50c in neighborhood runs. What counts is the number of people responding to the picture, not unadjusted box office "media spin." The genius of THE GREAT CARUSO was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of Enrico Caruso (really not a great story anyway) and threw it in the trash. Instead, 90% of the movie's focus was on the music. Thus MGM gave us the best living opera singer MARIO LANZA doing the music of the best-ever historic opera singer ENRICO CARUSO. The result was a wonderful movie. Too bad LANZA would throw his life and career away on overeating. Too fat to play THE STUDENT PRINCE, Edmund Purdom took his place --- with Lanza's voice dubbed in, and with the formerly handsome and not-fat Lanza pictured in the advertising. If you want to see THE GREAT CARUSO, it's almost always on eBay for $2.00 or less. Don't be put off by the low price, as it reflects only the easy availability of copies, not the quality of the movie.

John M. Clones Good Opera Movie. Did not depict Caruso's womonizing. Was an accurate portrail of Caruso's life. Some of Caruso's contemporaries who were not portrayed were Feodor Challiapin, Geraldine Farrar, Amalita Galli-Curci, John McCormack and Arturo Toscanini. One question is are there any recordings of Jean DeReszke? Three survive of his younger brother Edouard DeReszke who was a basso. The opera singers of that day sound different thatn they do today.

patlong I remember seeing The Great Caruso at a Cinema in Melbourne when I was 9 & I've never forgotten it!!!! Unfortunately they don't make movies like that anymore. Ironically that same theatre was where they had the Melbourne Premier of Mario's last film For The First Time on October 7th 1959 the day that Mario Lanza died. I beleive that I speak for most Mario fans around the world, when I say that Mario Lanza was the greatest tenor of them all!!!! I say that with all due respects to Pavartti Carrears & Domingo & many others. I'll never forget you Mario!!!!!