Mario Lanza - Thine Alone - Romeo and Juliet - Gordeeva & Grinkov

Mario Lanza's beautiful voice and photos of him are paired with photos from the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet along with the excellent ice skating of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov to produce an enjoyable listening and watching experience.

Victor Herbert wrote the music of Thine Alone and Henry Blossom wrote the lyrics. This version was recorded in 1951.

The photos of Mario are from his film The Great Caruso which is available for purchase, as are his other films, from Turner Classic Movies.

"Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian cinematic adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name.
The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and starred Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design; it was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture. Sir Laurence Olivier spoke the film's prologue and epilogue and reportedly dubbed the voice of the Italian actor playing Lord Montague, but was not credited in the film.
It was the most financially successful film of a Shakespeare play made up to that time and was popular with teenage audiences, partly because it used, for the first time, actors who were close to the age of the characters as Shakespeare describes them. Several critics also welcomed the film enthusiastically."... " Set in a 15th-century Renaissance period, Romeo & Juliet was filmed entirely in Italy in varying locations."
(Quotes are from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_(1968_film)").
It is an extremely beautiful film, one of my very favorites. I highly recommend it.

The video of Gordeeva and Grinkov is from the YouTube channel of http://www.youtube.com/user/3Axel1996 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2tKx5fnxs&feature=related . They are actually skating to Jules Massenet - Meditación de Thais for the Landover, Maryland, USA 1990 World Professional Figure Skating Championships, Pairs' Artistic Program. 3Axel1996 has uploaded 4,199 wonderful videos which present so many marvelous skaters in competition. I invite you to visit this channel, it is just amazing.

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