Can anyone out there identify the actress (obese, middle-aged) and/or singer who performs an operatic aria in mid-film? (After her number, Chill Wills steals her thunder with his down-home cowboy harmonizing.) For some reason the actress-singer isn't identified in IMDB's cast list... -- Prof Steven P Hill, Cinema Studies, University of Illinois " S (DASH) HILL4 (AT) ILLINOIS (DOT) EDU "
shareCan't help with the inquiry but I love the Chill Wills number.
shareAccording the the IMDB its Allegra Varron.
shareAny relation to Prof Harold Hill, River City, Iowa?
shareAccording to an article in the Tulsa Tribune dated April 1, 1949, the opera singer in the movie is played by an actress named Eula Morgan. The piece says that she grew up in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, went to Hollywood in the early '40s and appeared in several movies, including The Song of Bernadette.
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