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sol1218 ***SPOILERS**** Dubbed as the voice of the 20th Century by legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini Mario Lanza doesn't let his many as well as future, as soon as they hear him, fans and admirers down. That in the movie "Bcause your Mine" Mario Lanza belting out with his great and booming tenor voice, like a .155 howitzer, song after song as the just drafted into the US Army Renaldo Rossano a man with a voice as big as well as load as all outdoors.Trying to fit in with his fellow G.I's Renaldo's fame and voice proceeds him as his company sergeant the tough as nails Sgt. Bat Batterson, James Whitmore, just goes gaga over him as soon as he inspects him in the barracks. Being an armature tenor himself Sgt. Batterson knows talent when he sees or in the case of Renaldo hears it. There's also Sgt. Batterson's kid sister Bridget, Doretta Morrow, who does TV & radio toothpaste chemicals who also falls under the charm and spell of the great Renaldo Rossano.It's later when Renaldo's singing partner the beautiful but extremely jealous, in Bridget getting close with her duet partner Renaldo Rossano, soprano Francesca Landers played Rita Corday plants false ideas into Bridget's mind in her lover Renaldo being a 1st class heel and womanizer! That leads the heart-broken Bridget to walks out on the confused and hurt, he's really in love with her, Renaldo. It's Renaldo who now feels that he's been somehow suckered punched in all this by some unknown and unseen force working behind the scenes. This soon leads to Bridget's big brother Sgt. Batterson sticking it to Renaldo by assigning him to all the dirty jobs on base like pealing potato's and taking out the garbage in order to make him pay for breaking his sister's heart. It's soon that a fistfight between the two breaks out that lands them both in the brig after Bridget tried to get her brother to kiss and make up with a stubborn as a mule Renaldo.In the end everything turns out all right for everyone involved with Renaldo who refused to sing anymore coming to the rescue in getting on stage and singing his heart out, no big deal for him, in front of the entire UN & NATO general staff and knocking em' dead in the process. Bridget who felt that Renaldo was a two bit gigolo now realizes what a wonderful and loving person he really is and the two lovebirds as the movie ends are back together singing as a duet the movie's team song "Because your mine" and bringing both the house or roof down doing it.

joseph952001 If anyone will notice, That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans was the same movie with the same plot with maybe a change of characters. For instance, instead of Ethel Barrymore, we've got a male actor playing about the same thing that she did in Kiss, and there's still that Kathryn Grayson doesn't like Mario Lanza and Mario Lanza playing the brash singer. Same movie, same plot, same characters. So, along later comes Because You're Mine which is very entertaining without all that operatic music. Personally, I didn't care for The Great Caruso, although it's a odd thing that on the day that Caruso died, Mario Lanza was born. Now, I'm not saying that Mario Lanza was Caruso reincarnated, but it is a bit unusual that knowing this, Lanza played Caruso on the screen. It is probable that his family knew this and told this to him many times!So, in Because You're Mine, you've got a great cast, great music with Mario Lanza singing Granada at the end of the movie looking like he was poured into his Army uniform which made him look a little larger than the uniform with the button about to pop, but we forgave him. Come on gang - this is Mario Lanza!Now, we've got one problem with this movie. It's not a big problem but it's Doretta Morrow. Sure she can sing, beautifully, and she cat too. Well, no wonder. She was in the original Broadway cast of Kismet playing Marsinah in which Ann Blyth played the role in the movie version, but you couldn't see it on the stage, but Ms. Morrow always looked cross eyed on the screen, and after Lanza making a hit in Caruso singing Be My Love - did she really have too? At least they had the good sense not to make it a duet between here and Lanza.So, when you come right down to it, the movie is very entertaining. Probably Mario Lana's best. He never sang better. And why isn't Kathryn Grayson in this movie instead of Doretta Morrow? Well, quite frankly, she and Mario Lanza did not like each other. In their two movies together, especially That Midnight Kiss, you could see something going on with her feelings for him, but they never made a match. Maybe she was personally afraid of him. Who knows? But there were a great singing team. It's a shame that they never made more movies together, but that was never to be! Once again, it's just a shame that movies like this cannot be seen on the big movie theater screen. That big screen makes the difference. Ask anyone who's recently seen The Wizard of Oz for the first time in a movie theater, or even one of you out there - then you'll know what I mean!

bkoganbing By the time Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer started Mario Lanza in his fourth film, the formula was wearing thin. In That Midnight Kiss, he was an opera singing truckdriver. In The Toast of New Orleans, he was an opera singing fisherman. And in The Great Caruso he was, the greatest opera singer of all. Now he was going to be cast as an opera singer drafted into the army.So you can understand that Mario was feeling in a bit of a career rut. Why he wasn't cast in some of the classic musicals and operettas of old is beyond me. So despite the fact that the title song became a big hit for him, Mr. Lanza was unhappy.He set records for binging on food, on liquor, on women that outstripped even what Mario previously did. Looking at some of the scenes filmed out of sequence you can see how his weight went up and down. Reportedly he behaved so outrageously to co-star Doretta Morrow that she up and quit Hollywood and never returned.That was a pity because Ms. Morrow was certainly a great talent in her own right. She had just come off playing Tuptim on Broadway in The King and I and would soon go back to Broadway in Kismet.Despite that Doretta and Mario made some beautiful music together. Especially with the title song and Doretta sings a beautiful version of Cole Porter's You Do Something to Me.I actually rather liked the premise of this film. Mario Lanza, opera star gets drafted into the army where by the merest of chance he gets an opera loving sergeant James Whitmore who has an aspiring singer for a sister. That would be Ms. Morrow.Put them together with a whole lot of situations that come up in military service comedies and you have Because You're Mine. It's not a bad film, not particularly great. But a rut is a rut is a rut.

styner-2 Lanza's character is inducted into the Army and undergoes basic training, during a season in which the summer uniform was prescribed. Normal summer "Class A" uniform for a private would have been a long-sleeved cotton khaki shirt with tie (tucked in between second and third buttons of shirt) and matching trousers, heavily starched (but no jacket or blouse). As an option, purchased at their own cost and only authorized for off-duty purposes, enlisted men could purchase an officer's summer Class A uniform, comprising shirt and tie in a tropical worsted material, topped with a jacket. Perhaps ten senior NCOs ever did this, of course. They and Lanza's character: the jacket hides a multitude of sins (and fat rolls), so Lanza's buck private is the best dressed enlisted man in the lower 48 during most of his military scenes. And he often looks as if he could play two NFL line positions simultaneously!