Because You're Mine (1952) on Netflix
Approved19521h 43mComedyMusical
Opera star Renaldo Rossano is drafted into the Army. His sergeant, 'Bat' Batterson, an opera fan, wants him to appraise his sister Bridget's singing, a favoritism the platoon objects to.
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Plot summary
Renaldo Rossano is an opera star. He is drafted into the Army. He lands at boot camp under Sergeant 'Bat' Batterson. Batterson, an opera fan, admires Rossano. He wants Rossano to hear his sister Bridget sing. Batterson lets Rossano skip normal training. The platoon and the company commander object to this favoritism. Rossano tries to get Batterson to let him travel to New York.
Cast
- Ralph Reedas Horsey Jackson
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Because You're Mine (1952)
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- The film became the fifth-most-popular film at the British box office in 1953 and was chosen for the inaugural Royal Command Film Performance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
- Columnist Dorothy Manners wrote that Lanza, unhappy with the script, had refused to report for work and was demotivated by a sharply critical piece about him published in the August 6, 1951 issue of Time magazine.
- Production was pushed back to October while Lanza spent six weeks on vacation, including training in Idaho to lose approximately 40 pounds.
- Reports predicted the production would be permanently abandoned unless Lanza's physicians could return him to a sufficient level of health, and MGM's enthusiastic promotion of singing actor Fernando Lamas was viewed as a threat to Lanza's future with the studio.
- The title song “Because You're Mine”, written by Sammy Cahn and Nicholas Brodszky, earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and became Lanza's third and final million-selling single.
