| Title: | For the First Time |
| Foreign Titles: |
[BR] Pela Primeira Vez [DE] Serenade Einer Großen Liebe (Der Sänger von Capri) [DK] For Første Gang [FI] Ensi Kerran [FR] La Fille de Capri [IT]Come Prima [KR] 에 대해 검색된 자막 [PT] Pela Primeira Vez [SE] För första gången [SP] For Primera Vez [YU] Serenada Velike Ljubavi |
| Director: | Rudolph Maté |
| Writing credits: | Andrew Solt |
| Producer: | Alexander Grüter |
| Associate Producers: | Paul Baron, Alfredo Panone |
| Executive Producers: | Max Koslowski, George von Block |
| Production Companies: | Corona Filmproduktion (DE), Astor Films (IT), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US), Orion Films, Titanus (IT) |
| Associate Production Company: | Orion Picture Corporation |
| Production Managers: | Max Koslowsky, Georg von Block, Karl Heinz Eisner, Frank Guthke |
| Director of Photography: | Aldo Tonti |
| Art Director: | Fritz Maurischat |
| Second Unit Assistant Director: | Hans Sommer |
| Sound: | Enzo Giordanio, Eduard Kessel, Claude Hitchcock |
| Editorial Supervisor: | Gene Ruggiero, A.C.E. |
| Film Editor & Music Editor: | Peter Zinner |
| Musical Score & Direction: | George E. Stoll [George Martin Stoll] |
| Original Music released on: | LP For the First Time. US: RCA LM-2338 (mono)/RCA LSC-2338 (stereo); UK: RCA RB16158; SP: RCA GL13977. CD For the First Time/That Midnight Kiss US: RCA VICTOR 605162RG. US: Collectables Records 2001-05-08 |
| Tracks: | Come Prima (Mario Panzeri, Vincenzo di Paola, Sandro Taccani, Ram Buck [Mary Bond]) 2:22 Tarantella (George E. Stoll) 2:19 O Sole Mio (Eduardo di Capua) 2:27 Neapolitan Dance (George E. Stoll) 1:38 Hofbrauhaus Song (Wir Einmal Nur In München War) (Karl Bette) 1:32 O, Mon Amour (Je N'En Connais Pas La Fin) (Raymond Asso, Marguerite Monnot) 1:44 Mazurka (George E. Stoll) 1:27 Pineapple Pickers (George E. Stoll) 1:40 I Pagliacci, opera, Act II: Vesti la Giubba (Ruggero Leoncavallo) 3:31 Niun mi Tema (Otello) 4:42 Celeste Aida: Act I (Giuseppe Verdi) 4:37 I Love Thee (Ich Liebe Dich) (Edvard Grieg) 2:36 Ave Maria (Franz Schubert) 3:07 |
| Production Design: | Hans Jürgen Kiebach, Fritz Maurischat |
| Art Direction: | Fritz Maurischat |
| Costume Design: | Alfred Bücken, Charlotte Bücken, Heinrich Weidemann |
| Makeup Department: | Otello Fava, Max Rauffer, Arthur Schramm |
| Distributors: | Turner Entertainment Co and Corona-Film-Production (US); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (US) |
| Shooting Locations: | Isle of Capri, Napoli, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Film Studios, Roma, Campania, Salzburg, Wien, and Berlin. |
| Running Time: | 97 minutes |
| Release Date: |
1959-01-01 [IT] 1959-02-26 [DE] 1959-08-13 [US] 1959-11-06 [FI] 1959-11-09 [SE] 1959-11-14 [DK] 1959-12-23 [FR] |
| Cast: | Mario Lanza (Alfredo Cocozza): Tonio Costa (The Opera Star) Johanna van Koszian: Christa Bruckner (The Deaf Girl) Zsa Zsa Gabor [Sári Gábor]: Contessa Gloria de Vadnuz Kurt Kasznar [Kurt Servischer]: Ladislas Tabory, Tonio's manager Nico: Leader of admirers in Capri Hans Söhnker: Professor Albert Bruckner Annie Rosar: Mathilde Faktotum Sandro Giglio: Alessandro Walter Rilla: Dr. Bessart Renzo Cesana: Angelo Peter Capell: Leopold Hübner Michael Cosmo: Aldo Manfred Inger: Servant at the Wien State Opera Gisella Mathews Carlo Rizzo John Stein Manfred Shäffer |
| Note: | Originally titled Silent Melody, Mario Lanza's final film
casts him as Tonio Costa, a temperamental opera star who falls in love with Christa Bruckner,
a beautiful deaf girl (Johanna van Kozian) who refuses to marry him until she can hear his voice.
He dedicates his life to finding a way to help restore her hearing. Shot on location in Capri,
Salzburg, Rome, London, Wien, Napoli, Paris and Berlin between June and November 1958.
Photographed at CCC-Film-Studio and Centro Cinematografico Incom. Nico is the leader of a group
of fans and she asks Tonio Costa for a song in Capri: Girl: Mr. Costa, how about a song ? Mario Lanza: Oh I can't, you see I'm here incognito. Nico: You mean you can't sing for us not even one little song ? Girl: Sure he can! Mario Lanza then sings Come Prima. The theatrical trailer featuring Nico is included on the US MGM/UA Home Video released 1994-04-13. Released on Laserdisc The Seven Hills of Rome/For the First Time US MGM/UA Home Video ML104828, 1997-01-05 (letterbox) |
| Come Prima — with Nico | |
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