![]() ![]() ![]() Singing idol Nelson Eddy and rising star Susanna Foster were cast as the romantic leads, with the great Claude Rains tapped to play the Phantom.Įddy was a classically-trained baritone and former opera singer who shot to fame literally overnight when he gamely filled-in at the last minute for German Soprano Charlotte Lehmann at a sold-out Los Angeles concert in 1933. Late in 1942, Universal Studios began re-dressing the still-standing opera set from The Phantom of the Opera (1925) for the film's planned remake as a glossy musical extravaganza to be directed by Arthur Lubin, who would later achieve a kind of dubious celebrity as the director of the popular Francis, the Talking Mule film series.
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