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Edmund Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1926 – 1 January 2009) [1][2] was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then in America on Broadway and in Hollywood, and eventually in Italy. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in 1954's historical epic The ...
The Student Prince (1954) was meant to reunite Ann Blyth on screen with Mario Lanza, but only Lanza's voice was used for the musical soundtrack; his role was played by Edmund Purdom. From my book, Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.: Ralph Moratz, recounts his experience as a movie extra playing one of the students in
The Student Prince. (film) The Student Prince is a 1954 American musical film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn, S. Z. Sakall and Betta St. John. The film is an adaptation of the 1924 operetta of the same name composed by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly.
The Student Prince: Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern. A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
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- Musical, Romance
- Richard Thorpe
- 1954-06-15
A solution was reached in May 1953: the studio would remove the embargo on Lanza if he would allow his voice to be used while another actor played the part of the prince. This was agreed to and the filming got under way with Edmund Purdom lip-synching Lanz
Student Prince, The (1954) Prince Karl Franz of Karlsburg (Edmund Purdom, looking like a rugged Montgomery Clift) – a “Prussian pickle” – is spoiled, stubborn, petulant and haughty but vulnerable to the lessons of democratic behaviour that barmaid Kathie (Ann Blyth) is in a position to teach him. Kathie is the daintiest, most ...
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Feb 16, 2009 · The darkly handsome British actor Edmund Purdom became a Hollywood star in the mid-Fifties, and will be remembered particularly for playing the leading role in The Student Prince (1954), in which ...
