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Marjorie Lawrence: The World at Her Feet

12/16/2021

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1hr 20min

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Documentary

From Victorian farm girl to one of the world’s greatest opera sopranos

STORY

Marjorie grew up in Winchelsea in country Victoria, Australia, dreaming of becoming an opera star like Dame Nellie Melba. In 1928 she went to Paris to study opera without knowing a word of French and having never heard of Richard Wagner. In 1941, at the height her success, she was tragically cut down by polio and became completely paralysed. With the help of Australian nurse, Sister Kenny, Marjorie regained movement in her upper body and resumed her career in a wheelchair. In 1955, MGM made a movie of her life, "Interrupted Melody", starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford, which won an Academy Award.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Kiri Te Kanawa
  • Ita Buttrose
  • Richard Bonynge
  • Brian Castles Onion
  • Miki Oikawa

    Directors

  • Wayne Groom
  • Carolyn Bilsborow

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Australian International Pictures

    Production Countries

  • Australia

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Kiri Te Kanawa

Narrator

Ita Buttrose

Self

Miki Oikawa

Self

John Bolton-Wood

Self

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