---
title: 'Interrupted Melody (1955)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Curtis Bernhardt'
released: '1955-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 106
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/interrupted-melody-1955'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048210/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Interrupted Melody (1955)

1955 · 106 min · Drama, History, Music · United States


## Synopsis

Interrupted Melody is a 1955 American 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 Eastman Color, and produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Jack Cummings. With an Oscar-winning screenplay by Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Curtis Bernhardt](https://cinepixo.com/people/curtis-bernhardt)
- **Screenplay:** [Sonya Levien](https://cinepixo.com/people/sonya-levien), [William Ludwig](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-ludwig)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alexander Courage](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-courage)
- **Producer:** [Jack Cummings](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-cummings)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph Ruttenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-ruttenberg)
- **Editor:** [John Dunning](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-dunning)

## Cast

- [Cecil Kellaway](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-kellaway)
- [Stuart Whitman](https://cinepixo.com/people/stuart-whitman)
- [Leopold Sachse](https://cinepixo.com/people/leopold-sachse)
- [Roger Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-moore) as Cyril Lawrence
- [Eugene Borden](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-borden)
- [Bess Flowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-flowers)
- [Eleanor Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/eleanor-parker)
- [Peter Leeds](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-leeds)
- [Doris Lloyd](https://cinepixo.com/people/doris-lloyd)
- [Evelyn Ellis](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyn-ellis)
- [Ann Codee](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-codee)
- [Walter Baldwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-baldwin)
- [Glenn Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/glenn-ford)

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