Famous opera singer Giorgio Fini loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to female throat specialist Pamela Taylor and falls in love with her.Famous opera singer Giorgio Fini loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to female throat specialist Pamela Taylor and falls in love with her.Famous opera singer Giorgio Fini loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to female throat specialist Pamela Taylor and falls in love with her.
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- 5 nominations total
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- TriviaOpera singer Luciano Pavarotti's sole theatrical feature-film appearance.
- Quotes
Giorgio Fini: Pamela, you are a thirsty plant. Fini can water you.
Pamela Taylor: I don't want to be watered on by Fini.
- Alternate versionsThere is one scene known to have been cut out of the film. When Giorgio has dinner with Pamela at the Copley Plaza, he dances with her and dips her. This scene is present on the color lobby cards for the film.
- SoundtracksIf We Were In Love
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Music by John Williams
Performed by Luciano Pavarotti
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There's Pavarotti, at the height of his powers and popularity, in glorious voice, and some beautiful photography, and that's about it for this misguided attempt to turn Luciano Pavarotti into the Mario Lanza of the 1980's. The whole thing was totally uninspired by anything except the desire to make a quick buck out of Pavarotti fans. All the critics panned it when it came out, but thought it would succeed on the strength of Pavarotti's (then) huge fan base. They were wrong. Talent or no, the rotund Pavarotti was nobody's idea of a romantic leading man. The fans wanted to hear Pavarotti sing, not see him try to act, and "Yes, Giorgio!" sank like a stone at the box office. Only Eddie Albert managed to rise above the mess with his dignity intact, giving his usual good, understated performance (Was he ever capable of giving a BAD performance?).
In short, if you want to see and hear Pavarotti at his best (roughly 1973-90), watch one of his videos/DVDs, either of his opera performances or his concerts, and avoid this best-forgotten failure.
In short, if you want to see and hear Pavarotti at his best (roughly 1973-90), watch one of his videos/DVDs, either of his opera performances or his concerts, and avoid this best-forgotten failure.
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Box office
- Budget
- $19,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,279,543
- Gross worldwide
- $2,279,543
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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