After a three year absence Mario Lanza is back with the film Seven Hills of Rome – much to his liking is this one.   He did not care for Because Your Mine or Serenade which he described as having a ‘gloomy guy’ full of sadness and he felt that the fans wanted much more light heartedness and fun – and this what we got with Seven Hills Of Rome.

His recordings sold in astonishing amounts – probably still do – and I have to admit that if you listen to them it is a wonderful experience.

Described in the Picturegoer Film Annual as a ‘svelte like thirteen stones  – as opposed to the ‘over twenty  stones’ he had weighed in at some time in the last few years, he had seemed to settle down and following a sell-out tour of Britain he had intended to make Europe his base.

Sadly that was not to be. He suffered a heart attack and died in October 1959 at the young age of 38.

He was very much a family man.

This article cannot do justice to this phenomenal singer and film star – it is only looking at this one film and includes pictures above –  taken from The Picturegoer Film Annual.