--- title: 'Melba (1953)' type: 'film' director: 'Lewis Milestone' released: '1953-01-01' genres: - 'Music' - 'History' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/melba-1953' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046062/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Melba (1953) 1953 · Music, History · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Melba is a 1953 musical biopic drama film of the life of Australian soprano Nellie Melba, written by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Lewis Milestone for Horizon Pictures, marking the film debut of the Metropolitan Opera's Patrice Munsel. ## Credits - **Director:** [Lewis Milestone](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-milestone) - **Screenplay:** [Harry Kurnitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-kurnitz) - **Original Music Composer:** [Muir Mathieson](https://cinepixo.com/people/muir-mathieson) - **Producer:** [Sam Spiegel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-spiegel) - **Director of Photography:** [Arthur Ibbetson](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-ibbetson) ## Cast - [Robert Morley](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-morley) as Oscar Hammerstein I - [Martita Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/martita-hunt) as Mathilde Marchesi - [John Justin](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-justin) as Eric Walton - [Beatrice Varley](https://cinepixo.com/people/beatrice-varley) as Aunt Catherine - [Alec Clunes](https://cinepixo.com/people/alec-clunes) as Cesar Carlton - [Patrice Munsel](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrice-munsel) as Nellie Melba - [Robert Riettii](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-riettii) as Italian Policeman - [Sybil Thorndike](https://cinepixo.com/people/sybil-thorndike) as Victoria - [Theodore Bikel](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodore-bikel) as Paul Brotha - [Joseph Tomelty](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-tomelty) as Thomas Mitchell - [John McCallum](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mccallum) as Charles Nesbitt Frederick Armstrong ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/melba-1953 Film facts: Wikidata (Q6811657); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.