Arrivederci Roma was an Italian film. Shot in 1957 on location in Rome and at the Titanus studios in the Italian capital, the movie was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in January 1958. It was tenor Mario Lanza's penultimate film. The Technirama film tells the story of Marc Revere, an American TV singer of Italian heritage who travels to Italy in search of his jet-setting fiancée, Carol Ralston, played by Peggie Castle. Revere moves in with his comical and good hearted cousin Pepe Bonelli , a struggling artist who also befriends a beautiful young girl, Raffaella Marini , whom Revere... had met on a train. Like Lanza, this was Allasio's next-to-last film , as she would marry Count Pierfrancesco Calvi di Bergolo, grandson of King Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, in November 1958 and retire from the cinema. Among the selections that Lanza sings in this "vocal tour de force" is "Arrivederci Roma", performed in the Piazza Navona with a young street urchin. In typical Lanza fashion, the star had encountered the youngster while in Rome and insisted on her appearing in the film.
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| Release date: | 1958 |
| Directed by: | Roy Rowland |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Genre: | Musical |