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1956 film by Anthony Mann

Serenade is a 1956 American musicaldrama film directed by Anthony Mann and starring tenorMario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel (billed as Sarita Montiel), and Vincent Price.

Based on the 1937 novel Serenade by James M. Cain, the film was a Warner Bros.

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release, Lanza's fifth film, and his first on-screen appearance in four years.

Plot

Serenade tells the story of poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza), who becomes an operatic tenor, and is involved with two women — one a high society hostess, Kendall Hale (Joan Fontaine), the other a Mexican bullfighter's daughter, Juana Montes (Sara Montiel).

The tenor has a breakdown because of his unrequited love for the society woman, but finds love (and a happy ending) with the Mexican girl. Highly melodramatic, the film features a great deal of operatic music, all of it sung by Lanza.

Of note are the Act III Monologue from Verdi's Otello and an extract from th