My Geisha (1962)

Directors

Jack Cardiff

Cast

Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Bob K. Cummings, Yoko Tani

The story

Paul Robaix, a famous director, wants to film the Puccini opera on location in Japan under the title Madame Butterfly, with the dialogue spoken in English by the actors and the score sung in Italian by the best singers of opera available. His wife, Lucy Dell, has been the leading lady in all of his greatest films, and she is more famous. He feels that she overshadows him and he yearns to achieve success independent of her.

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