The Stars Are Singing is a 1953 Paramount Pictures musical directed by Norman Taurog and starring Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Lauritz Melchior. Clooney performs her hit song "Come On-a My House" and Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior sings "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci in this Technicolor production.
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Plot
A 15-year-old Polish girl attempts to enter the U.S. illegally, setting off a major search by immigration officials. She is befriended by a struggling group of New York performers, who try to get approval for her to remain in the country.
Cast
Rosemary Clooney as Terry Brennan
Anna Maria Alberghetti as Katri Walenska
Lauritz Melchior as Jan Poldi
Bob Williams as Homer Tirdell
Tom Morton as Buddy Fraser
Fred Clark as McDougall
John Archer as Dave Parish
Mikhail Rasumny as Ladowski
Lloyd Corrigan as Miller
Don Wilson as Radio Announcer
Otto Waldis as Ship's Captain Goslak
Henry Guttman as Ship's Mate
Paul E. Burns as Henryk
Freeman Lusk as Conway
Production
The film cost $1,264,337 and earned an estimated $1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.
Release
The film's world premier was in Clooney's home town, Maysville, Kentucky, at the Russell Theatre.