Interrupted Melody

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-07-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (662 Reviews)

Director:

Curtis Bernhardt

Genres:

Biography Drama Music

Cast:

Glenn Ford Eleanor Parker Roger Moore Cecil Kellaway

Writer:

William Ludwig

Sonya Levien

Marjorie Lawrence (based on her life story by)

Fullplot:

Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut at the Paris Opera she becomes famous overnight, and her debut at the Met in New York establishes her as one of the great singers of her time. With all her dreams come true, tragedy strikes in the form of infantile paralysis and she faces a life of confinement to a wheel chair. Although she reaches the depths of despair, she manages through the love and devotion of her husband, Dr. Tom King (Glenn Ford), she begins to build a new career by singing to servicemen who, like herself, are confined to wheel chairs.

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