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Serenade is a 1956 American musical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and starring tenor Mario 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. release, Lanza's fifth film, and his first on-screen appearance in four years.
Serenade: Directed by Anthony Mann. With Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Vincent Price. Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer.
Juana Montes, a Mexican girl, tends to him and then brings him to recuperate at the Montes farm, where she lives with her aunt and uncle, Manuel and Rosa. Damon offers to work in the fields to pay back the money that Juana has spent on his hotel and doctor's fees.
In Mexico, where he has got back in touch with his inner self, Damon meets Juana Montès.They are happy and get married. But Kendall is still around... Welcome to the Fandango MOVIECLIPS Trailer...
Anthony Mann returns with another musical based on a novel of the same name and starring Mario Lanza as an opera singer seeking to make it in the industry while dealing with his complicated love life. Even while Fontaine and, especially, Montiel are great, the love triangle never managed to hook me.
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Serenade, a 1956 Warner Bros. release, was tenor Mario Lanza's fifth film, and his first on-screen appearance in four years. Directed by Anthony Mann and based on the 1937 novel of the same name by James M. Cain, the film also stars Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel (billed as Sarita Montiel), and Vincent Price.
