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.

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Early one morning, Marjorie Lawrence leaves her family sheep farm in Winchelsea, Australia to catch a train and attend an operatic singing competition in Geelong. The next morning, Marjorie's father Bill learns from the newspaper she had won the competition. She arrives in Paris on a music scholarship, and is tutored by Mme. Cécile Gilly. Shortly after, Marjorie receives a telegram from her brother Cyril that her father has died. Grief-stricken, Marjorie considers returning home, but Gilly notifies she has selected to play Musetta in a production of La bohème in Monte Carlo. Her debut performance receives acclaim, and she is given a two-year contract.

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