For the First Time (1959 film)

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For the First Time

Directed by	Rudolph Maté
Produced by	Corona Filmproduktion Orion Films Titanus
Starring	Mario Lanza Johanna von Koczian Zsa Zsa Gabor
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	26 August 1959
Running time	92 min.
Country	Italy and United States
Language	English
Budget	$500,000^[1]
Box office	$1,685,000^[1]

For the First Time is tenor star Mario Lanza's final film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1959.

Filmed on location in 1958 in Capri, Salzburg, Berlin and at the Rome Opera House, the film told the sentimental story of an operatic tenor (Tony Costa) who finds love for the first time with a young German woman (played by Johanna von Koczian), who happens to be deaf.

The film was directed by Rudolph Mate, and featured Kurt Kasznar and Zsa Zsa Gabor in supporting roles. Critics singled out Lanza's singing of "Vesti la Giubba" from Pagliacci and the Death Scene from Otello for special praise, with Howard Thompson of The New York Times calling it the tenor's "most disarming vehicle in years."

Cast

Mario Lanza as Tonio Costa
Johanna von Koczian as Christa
Kurt Kasznar as Tabory
Zsa Zsa Gabor as Gloria De Vadnuz

Box Office

According to MGM records the film earned $710,000 in the US and Canada and $975,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $1,685,000.^[1]

References

1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .

Cesari, Armando. Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy (Fort Worth: Baskerville, 2004).

External links

Films directed by Rudolph Maté

It Had to Be You (1947)
The Dark Past (1948)
No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
D.O.A. (1950)
Union Station (1950)
Branded (1950)
The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
The Green Glove (1952)
Sally and Saint Anne (1952)
Paula (1952)
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Second Chance (1953)
Forbidden (1953)
Siege at Red River (1954)
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
The Violent Men (1955)
The Far Horizons (1955)
The Rawhide Years (1955)
Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Port Afrique (1956)
Three Violent People (1956)
The Deep Six (1958)
For the First Time (1959)
Revak the Rebel (1960)
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Seven Seas to Calais (1962)

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