Enter Madame!

1934
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1h 23m

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Cary Grant and Elissa Landi in Enter Madame! (1934)

Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

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Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented television presentation took place in Johnstown, Pennsylvania Monday 14 December 1959 on WJAC (Channel 6); thanks to the presence of a young Cary Grant (I), in one of his more or less forgotten, early efforts, it was eventually aired in San Francisco 20 January 1960 on KPIX (Channel 5), in Toledo 25 June 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11), in Grand Rapids 26 August 1960 on WOOD (Channel 8), in Cleveland 11 November 1960 on WJW (Channel 8), and in Chicago 12 December 1960 on WBBM (Channel 2). It was released on DVD 19 April 2016 as one of 18 titles in Universal's Cary Grant - the Vault Collection, and again as a single 12 October 2016 as part of the Universal Vault Series.

Goofs
Lynne Overman tells Elissa Landi that her fan is in the box on the right. He is in the box on the right from the point of view of the audience, but, since actors always give directions with reference to the stage, he should have said that her fan was on the left.

Quotes
Lisa Della Robbia: They say there are great, pitch black spaces between the stars. I think they are between people too.

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Version of Enter Madame (1922)

Soundtracks
Cavalleria Rusticana
Music by Pietro Mascagni
Libretto by Guido Menasci and Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

A not widely known Cary Grant film is Enter Madame which I've just seen. Other than for Cary Grant completists it's not one of his better efforts even from his early nurturing days at Paramount.

Billed first is Elissa Landi who plays an opera singer of whom Grant is a devoted admirer and rich enough to buy out a box above the stage at every performance. Once during a production of Tosca Landi's dress catches on fire and Grant gallantly leaps to the stage and puts out the fire saving her life. That gets the romance going and soon they're married.

But despite warnings from her manager Lynne Overman, Grant likes married life at first, but soon just becomes another part of her entourage. They separate and soon Grant wants a divorce to marry social climbing Sharon Lynne.

Landi and Grant really never develop a chemistry between them. The film is OK nothing more. Landi's singing is superb, it's also dubbed. In two years Grant played the husband to another opera singer Grace Moore who did not have to be dubbed. Still that one also was not one of his best.

And there's no way I believe Frank Albertson was Elissa Landi's brother, even as a half-brother.

This one is for devoted fans of Cary Grant and the opera.