The Student Prince (film)
The Student Prince is a 1954 CinemaScope and Ansco Color film musical featuring, as the credits read, the singing voice of Mario Lanza. Lanza had become embroiled in a bitter dispute with MetroGoldwynMayer during production and the studio fired him. Under the terms of the settlement with Lanza, MGM retained the film rights to the soundtrack that Lanza had already recorded. The songs from this film including Beloved written specially for the movie and the wellremembered Serenade, from the original show would become some of those most identified with Lanza, even though they were mouthed in the film by Edmund Purdom, who took over the role of Prince Karl. Ann Blyth starred as Kathie. Blyth had played opposite Lanza in the 1951 blockbuster The Great Caruso.
Young Prince Karl Edmund Purdom, of a small subkingdom of the German Empire, is sent off near the turn of the 20th century to get a university education in Heidelberg, BadenWuerttemberg. His grandfather Louis Calhern was one of a handful of petty kings within Germanspeaking central Europe. Fictional Karlsburg is small, but fiercely proud of its history and traditions.Karl has been raised most of his life for the military, but when it comes time for him to marry, the princess Betta St. John picked for him cannot stand his stiff formality. This would not be such a problem but for the fact that Karlsburg has no great wealth, only good breeding. His tutor recommends that he be sent to university to develop an easier, more sociable manner. ........
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