![]() In the orchestra pit, violinist Erique Claudin (Claude Rains), is having problems as decades of playing the violin have resulted in a carpal tunnel injury. ![]() Off in the wings, Inspector Raoul Dubert (Edgar Barrier), keeps watch, mostly on Christine. Christine DuBois (Susanna Foster) is part of the chorus, though she dreams of being more. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA COSTUME CLOAK MOVIEThe movie opens with an opera, with barotone Anatole Garron (Nelson Eddy) as the leading man and Biancarolli (Jane Farrar) as the leading woman. Spectacles became popular, a way to see something beyond the mundane. Movie stars were larger than life, with gossip pages tracking their comings and goings. Radio gave people something to listen to nightly, but the movies didn’t have real life interrupting with breaking news. Film had become the special event out, replacing theatre. With the World War II still going on and the US now joining in on two fronts, the War in Europe and the War in the Pacific, audiences States-side were looking for entertainment to distract themselves from what was happening overseas. ![]() The end is tragic, with Erik dead and Raoul and Christine lost after a flood in the Parisien sewers. Raoul is worried about Christine’s health, as she pours all of herself into becoming the best diva in Paris. Christine sees the Phantom as her Angel of Music, the one mentoring her and giving her the ability to become a lead singer. Erik, the Phantom, sees Christine Daaé as a brilliant diva and stops at nothing to put her up on centre stage. The Leroux novel featured a man torn apart by obsessive love, a woman torn between her passion for singing and her love for fiancé, and a young man devoted to his fiancée’s well being. Today, a look at the second adaptation, 1943’s Phantom of the Opera with Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, and Claude Rains as the Phantom. The Phantom of the Opera had been adapted twice before in film, and combined with Faust in a third. ![]() Webber had gone back to the original novel while composing the Broadway hit, but this wasn’t the first adaptation. A while back, Lost in Translation looked at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux’ Le Fantôme de l’Opéra. ![]()
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