The Student Prince (film)
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The Student Prince | |
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Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
Produced by | Joe Pasternak |
Written by | Sonya Levien William Ludwig Dorothy Donnelly (play) Wilhelm Meyer-Förster (novel and play) |
Starring | Ann Blyth Edmund Purdom John Ericson Louis Calhern Edmund Gwenn S.Z. Sakall Betta St. John John Williams Evelyn Varden John Hoyt. |
Music by | Sigmund Romberg |
Cinematography | Paul Vogel |
Editing by | Gene Ruggiero |
Distributed by | MGM |
Release date(s) | 15 June 1954 |
Running time | 107 min |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
IMDb profile |
The Student Prince is a 1954 film musical made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe (who replaced the original director, Curtis Bernhardt) and produced by Joe Pasternak. The screenplay was by Dorothy Donnelly, Sonya Levien and William Ludwig and was based on the operetta The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg. Additional songs were especially written by Nicholas Brodszky and Paul Francis Webster.
It starred Ann Blyth as Kathie and Edmund Purdom as Prince Karl, with John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn, S.Z. Sakall, Betta St. John, John Williams, Evelyn Varden and John Hoyt. Mario Lanza, who was originally cast in the title role, provided the singing voice for the Prince.