So This Is Love
by Gordon Douglas
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Actor: Joan Weldon, Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin, Walter AbelDirector: Gordon Douglas
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Bros.
Movie Reviews of So This Is Love
Movie Review: Grayson fans will relish hearing her operatic numbers...
Summary: 4 Stars
SO THIS IS LOVE is really a semi-biography of Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash at the height of her career. It deals only with the earlier years of Miss Moore's life to show the determination and grace that led to her singing career, up until her New York City debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in "La Boheme."
It gives KATHRYN GRAYSON a chance to sing a variety of songs in coloratura style, but since the story does not cover Miss Moore's Hollywood career at all, many of her most well-known songs had to be omitted. Instead, we get a sprinkling of a few opera numbers and many other pop standards, all of them suitable for Grayson's voice. She's in fine form vocally and delivers all of the songs with her customary charm and grace.
MERV GRIFFIN, before his celebrity and TV fame, makes his second appearance in a movie as one of Miss Moore's admirers and gets to warble "I Kiss Your Hand Madame" while doing a nice job on the vocals. WALTER ABEL and ANN DORAN play Grayson's parents, not at all thrilled that she wants to leave her small town life for a fling at stardom in the big city.
Grayson has a role that is tailor-made for her own background as a singer. DOUGLAS DICK is rather colorless as another disappointed suitor who can't compete with her operatic ambitions, but FORTUNIO BONANOVA is excellent as a sympathetic voice coach who makes sure that she takes proper care of her throat condition before returning to him for his coaching. The story simply ends at the point of her first great success as Mimi in "La Boheme" at the Met.
Final verdict: Opera fans should enjoy this tribute to Miss Moore, and fans of Miss Grayson should appreciate the care taken to photograph her in beautiful close-ups while she takes aim at arias by Gounod and Puccini in good voice.
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