Mario Lanza - Song of Songs - Casablanca video free download

Lanza's beautiful voice and photos of him are combined with photos from Casablanca, the legendary film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

The music for "Song of Songs" (Chanson du Coeur Brisé, meaning Song of a Broken Heart), was written by Moya, the English words by Clarence Lucas (1866-1947), and the French words by Maurice Vaucaire. It was published in New York by Chappell & Co., circa 1914.

The photos of Mario Lanza are from his film "The Great Caruso". This film and his other movies are available for purchase from Turner Classic Movies.

TCM is presenting a 70th Anniversary Encore showing of Casablanca in various theaters across the USA on April 26, 2012. Contact: http://www.fathomevents.com/classics/event/casablancaencore.aspx?gclid=CIirnubVuq8CFQhN4AodyjBlkA for complete information.

The other photos are from the film Casablanca.

"Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

Although it was an A-list film, with established stars and first-rate writers—Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch received credit for the screenplay—no one involved with its production expected Casablanca to be anything out of the ordinary;[1] it was just one of hundreds of pictures produced by Hollywood every year. The film was a solid, if unspectacular, success in its initial run, rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier.[2] Despite a changing assortment of screenwriters frantically adapting an unstaged play and barely keeping ahead of production, and Bogart attempting his first romantic lead role, Casablanca won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Its characters, dialogue, and music have become iconic, and the film has grown in popularity to the point that it now consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films of all time."

(Quote is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film).)